Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica, February 6, 1945 - died in Miami, Florida, USA, May 11, 1981 at age 36 years) is a singer, songwriter, and musician reggae Jamaican nationals . Bob Marley until now known worldwide as the most famous reggae musicians in the world of reggae music. He acknowledged his role in popularizing and spreading the music of Jamaica and the Rastafari movement throughout the world.Early life and career
Bob Marley was born in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap the first and middle name. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of mixed ancestry and whose family came from England Essex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines, as well as plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years. Norval provided financial support to his wife and children, but rarely saw them, as a royal parajurit he often travels far. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 70. Marley faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:
I do not have prejudice against myself. My father is white and my mother's black. They call me half-caste or whatever. I do not take sides on the side of the black man and white man's side. I dip in the sight of Allah, who created me and caused me to come from black and white.
Bob Marley at Nine Mile House is a house where he lived with his mother during his youth
Although Marley recognized his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of the conviction, he identifies himself as black Africans, following the ideas of Pan-African leader. Marley said that the two biggest influences are African-centered Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie. A central theme in the message of Bob Marley is the repatriation of blacks to Zion, which in his view is Ethiopia, or more generally, Africa in songs like "Survivor Black", "Babylon System", and "Blackman Redemption.", Marley sings about the struggle blacks and Africans against oppression from the West or "Babylon".
Marley's friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), where he began playing music. He left school at age 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and music wing of Rastafari. At a jam session with Higgs and Livingston, Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who have similar musical ambitions. In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. The songs were released on Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell, attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection of Marley's work.
Bob Marley was born in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap the first and middle name. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of mixed ancestry and whose family came from England Essex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines, as well as plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years. Norval provided financial support to his wife and children, but rarely saw them, as a royal parajurit he often travels far. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 70. Marley faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:
I do not have prejudice against myself. My father is white and my mother's black. They call me half-caste or whatever. I do not take sides on the side of the black man and white man's side. I dip in the sight of Allah, who created me and caused me to come from black and white.
Bob Marley at Nine Mile House is a house where he lived with his mother during his youth
Although Marley recognized his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of the conviction, he identifies himself as black Africans, following the ideas of Pan-African leader. Marley said that the two biggest influences are African-centered Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie. A central theme in the message of Bob Marley is the repatriation of blacks to Zion, which in his view is Ethiopia, or more generally, Africa in songs like "Survivor Black", "Babylon System", and "Blackman Redemption.", Marley sings about the struggle blacks and Africans against oppression from the West or "Babylon".
Marley's friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), where he began playing music. He left school at age 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and music wing of Rastafari. At a jam session with Higgs and Livingston, Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who have similar musical ambitions. In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. The songs were released on Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell, attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection of Marley's work.
He became known in the world of reggae music in 1962. His first album is "The Wailing Wailers" was released in 1965 with The Wailers. In 1974 the song "No Woman No Cry" became popular in Jamaica and the countries of the United States. But in 1977 she suffered from cancer. In 1980, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York. Yet Marley died in 1981 after his cancer for four years. He leaves a wife and 3 children who attend school in one of the fields adabiah who named Imam Satria
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