Los Angeles: Bob Marley has been dead for 28 years, but his legacy lives on at the Grammys.
Three of his sons were nominated for prizes on Sunday, and two of them won.
Ziggy Marley, 41, his eldest son, picked up the fifth Grammy of his career, this time in the children's musical album category for his all-star project Family Time
Marley, who first made a splash in the 1980s with his sibling group the Melody Makers, corralled the likes of Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson and Toots Hibbert for Family Time which also includes two spoken-word pieces from Jamie Lee Curtis. Proceeds went to a school in Jamaica.
His younger brother Stephen won the Grammy for best reggae album, the fourth time a member of the Marley family has won in the past five years. (Burning Spear broke the streak last year, when no Marleys were nominated.)
It marked the seventh win for Marley, 37, who was cited for "Mind Control - Acoustic," a digital-only follow-up to his 2007 Grammy-winning solo debut, "Mind Control."
In taking the prize, he beat 34-year-old half-brother Julian Marley, who was bidding for his first Grammy.
Paradoxically, Bob Marley never won a Grammy before he died of cancer in 1981, aged 36. He did receive a lifetime achievement award in 2001. This year, his 1973 album with the Wailers, Catch a Fire was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The exact number of Marley's children is unclear. His official Web site lists 10, while Vanity Fair listed 11 in 2004, and a 1999 Rolling Stone story counted 12 with eight mothers.
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