Bob Marley

Bob Marley was and is still the biggest king of reggae.

His true name is Robert “Bob” Nesta Marley. He was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish (Jamaica) , the February 6, 1945, of a white Jamaican father and a black Jamaican mother. After his father’s death, he moved to Kingston’s Trenchtown with his mother.

He left school at the age of 14 and started as an apprentice at a local welder’s shop. In his free time, he and Livingston made music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari who is regarded by many as Marley’s mentor.

In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston and others formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves “The Teenagers”. The group which became later “The Waliers”.

From there, he begins a fulgurating career made of great successes as “I Shot the Sheriff“, “No Woman, No Cry“, “Three Little Birds“, “Exodus”, “Could You Be Loved“, “Jamming“, “Redemption Song“, and “One Love“.

In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma but he refused amputation, because of the Rastafari belief that the body must be “whole”:

« Rasta no abide amputation. I don’t allow a man to be dismantled. »

He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981 at the age of 36.

 

 

 

~ par reggaejah sur mars 6, 2008.