Cindy Breakspeare

She better known as Cindy Breakspeare, is a Jamaican jazz musician and former model. She was crowned Miss World 1976, and is the mother of Grammy-winning reggae musician Damian Marley.

Breakspeare was born in Toronto, Canada, to a Jamaican father Louis Breakspeare and a Canadian mother, Marguerite Cochrane. Cindy also has 2 brothers, Steven Breakspeare and John Spence. She moved to Jamaica when she was four years old, and as a teenager she began participating in beauty pageants, including Miss Jamaica Body Beautiful and Miss Universe Bikini. She was invited to participate in the Miss World competition in 1976; she traveled to London and won the title on November 19, 1976, becoming only the second Jamaican to do so.

Her son, Damian Marley, born in 1978, is the son of Bob Marley, who wrote the song "Turn Your Lights Down Low" about his relationship with her.

She married senator and attorney-at-law Tom Tavares-Finson in 1981 with whom she has a son Christian (1982) and a daughter Leah (1986). Breakspeare and Tavares-Finson divorced in 1995. Christian attends law school in the UK, while Leah attends university in Canada.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Breakspeare

• Residence: Toronto
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