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DON’T CALL HIM ROMANTIC: Ziggy Marley and his wife Orly

REGGAE STAR Ziggy Marley admits he’s got a lot to learn when it comes to romance.

The married father-of-six says he’s not big on lovey-dovey type things, but says he is a man of love.

“Am I a romantic man? No, I’m a love man,” he laughed. “I’m not romantic; I’m not really into all that. But I am love.”

Asked if his wife Orly would agree, the singer said: “Yes, she would! I’m not romantic but I am trying!”

Nonetheless, the Jamaican musician and eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley, is full of love in his latest venture, a new children’s book entitled I Love You Too.

The book was inspired by the song of the same name that features on the star’s 2009 Grammy award-winning children’s album Family Time.

Marley, who recently scooped his sixth Grammy Award, collecting the 2014 Best Reggae gong for his album Ziggy Marley In Concert, says I Love You Too – both the song and the book – was inspired by a simple exchange he had with his daughter.

“The whole concept was inspired by a conversation I had with my daughter, who was three at the time,” he says. “I came in the kitchen one day and she said, ‘I love you.’ I said, ‘I love you too’.

“It was that simple exchange that inspired me to write the song, which in turn inspired this book.”

Read the full exclusive interview with Ziggy Marley, coming soon in Life & Style