Miss World Of 1976 – Cindy Breakspeare

Date of birth: October 24, 1954
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Profession: Jazz musician and former model

Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare known as Cindy Breakspeare — Canadian-Jamaican jazz musician and former model. She was crowned Miss World 1976. She is the mother of reggae musician Damian Marley, through her relationship with Bob Marley, who remained married to Rita Marley until his death. Bob Marley is said to have written the song "Is This Love" for about her.

Breakspeare was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a Jamaican father, Louis Breakspeare, who was a British-Jamaican of multiracial ancestry, and a white Canadian mother of British origin, Marguerite Cochrane. She has three brothers and one sister. She moved to Jamaica when she was four years old, and attended the Immaculate Conception Preparatory School. As a teenager she 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, and won the title on November 19, 1976, becoming the second Jamaican to do so.

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