Scientist Dr Marion Leiba and musician Courtney Leiba - a couple living in harmony

By Megan Doherty
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:31pm, first published June 13 2015 - 11:50am

He was a musician from the West Indies whose band had toured with Liberace and was nominated for a Grammy; she was a scientist from Tasmania who studied volcanoes and earthquakes.They met on a street in Port-of-Spain in 1974 and were married three years later, together ever since, their home in Kambah crammed with the flotsam and jetsam of a full life – photos, paintings, trinkets, keepsakes."This house is a mix between storeroom and museum," Marion Leiba said, eyes twinkling; signature magenta-hued hair gleaming.

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