Bob Marley - The legend of Music

Bob Marley is a real gift to the world of Music and his contribution is unique to the present.

Robert Bob Nesta Marley was born (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) in the small village of Nine Mile in the Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican born in 1895 to British parents from Sussex. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them. Marley was ten years old when his father died of a heart attack in 1955 at age 60. Marley suffered from racial neglection as a youth because of his mixed racial origins.

Marley and his mother moved to Kingston's Trenchtown after his father's death. 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 (one of his closest friend at that time) made music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari who is regarded by many as Marley's mentor.

In 1963 Marley and his friends formed a musical gorup and started their musical career officialy. In 1970s is the Golden decade in his life and also the end of his life. His albums were released worldwide and sold well. At that period he made very popular songs

* Get Up, Stand Up

* I Shot The Sheriff

* No Woman, No Cry

* One Love

* Exodus


In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a football wound on his right big toe. Marley refused cut off surgically, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole". The cancer then spread to Marley's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. After playing two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of his fall 1980 Uprising Tour, he collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park. While flying home from Germany to Jamaica for his final days, Marley became ill, and landed in Miami for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981 at the age of 36. Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica and according to the Rastafari tradition.

Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became the leading proponent of the Rastafari, taking their music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. Bob Marley had 13 children and his final words to one of his son were "Money can't buy life".

His songs were mainly written to point out the shortcomings of the society and also for global unity, love and peace.