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Our November 6th speaker was Marley Marsalis, who received our club’s second travel scholarship to visit our Sister City Rotary Club in Orléans France. Marley Marsalis born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 22nd, 2005, currently 19 years old and is the daughter of Kaya and Jason Marsalis, and the granddaughter of both the late Delores and Ellis Marsalis and the late Patricia Horne-Love and David Belfield. Marley lived in France from the years of 2016 to 2018 where she learned the ability to speak French, while developing a passion for fighting social injustice issues on an international level. Upon returning to New Orleans, she took advantage of her experiences from living in France and was granted the opportunity of representing the 2024 Joan of Arc Maid after winning the Krewe de Jeanne D'Arc maid application contest. Outside of her international involvement, she has been playing piano since the age of five, excluding the hiatus from her living in France. Marley occasionally performs at Snug Harbor and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on her father’s set. She was featured in a documentary titled, Music Pictures: New Orleans with her father and grandfather shortly before his passing. This film marked the only time in history that three generations have been recorded on an album, earning Marley the opportunity of becoming a Voting Member of the Grammy Recording Academy. Marley performed at the film’s premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and accepted the 2023 Grammy Trustees Award with her father on behalf of her late grandfather, Ellis Marsalis. Marley is currently an undergraduate Freshman at Tulane University double majoring in Music Performance and Political Science and Minoring in French. Marley is currently an elected member of the Tulane Residential Hall Association serving as Director of Community Engagement, a member of Tulane's Black Student Union, and a writer for Tulane's newspaper, The Hullabaloo. |
