Cindy Breakspeare
Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare is a Canadian-Jamaican jazz singer and beauty queen. Breakspeare was crowned Miss World 1976. Breakspeare is the mother of reggae musician Damian Marley, a result of her affair with Bob Marley, who remained married to Rita Marley until his death.
Life and career
Breakspeare was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a Jamaican father, Louis Cameron Breakspeare and a Canadian mother of British origin, Marguerite Cochrane. She has three brothers and one sister.Breakspeare moved to Jamaica when she was four years old, and attended the Immaculate Conception High School, graduating in 1973. As a teenager, Breakspeare participated in beauty pageants, including Miss Jamaica Body Beautiful and Miss Universe Bikini. She was invited to participate in the Miss World competition in 1976 held in London. Despite Jamaica's 1970s government banning Jamaicans from participating in competitions that included South Africa under its apartheid rules, Breakspeare accepted the invitation and won the title on November 19, 1976, becoming the second Jamaican to do so. Cindy didn't face the backlash from society that Lawrence Rowe and the South African rebel tours cricketers got for doing similar during that time period.