Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to set foot in Jamaica since 1982 on Wednesday and made some time for the late reggae legend Bob Marley.
President Obama, who arrived on Wednesday evening for a meeting with Caribbean leaders, made an unscheduled nighttime visit to the Bob Marley Museum.
"I still have all the albums," Obama, in rolled up shirtsleeves, told museum guide Natasha Clark, as he toured the home in central Kingston where the Jamaican reggae great lived from 1975 until his death in 1981.
Marley's family has turned the rambling, Victorian style house and outbuildings into a museum where all things Marley are sold from T-shirts, posters, albums and artifacts from his life and Jamaican culture are displayed.
As Obama toured, strains of "One Love," a Marley great, with its chorus of "let's get together and feel all right," echoed out the windows and into the night.
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