Three weeks ago, Ziggy Marley was monitoring Hurricane Melissa like so many around the world — by way of news reports and the Weather Channel. Working on a new album in Los Angeles, where he lives, Marley could only observe from afar as the storm began plowing through his home country. “I was just watching on the news and, every now and again, checking in with some of my boys in Jamaica , just hearing what’s going on,” he says. “There was the anticipation of what was going to happen, because we never know how terrible it could have been.”

And when the worst was over and Melissa had moved on, Marley — the son of reggae icon Bob and a longtime artist in his own right — had to learn more about the aftermath from a distance, especially since he wasn’t able to reach family and friends

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