Bob marley

BOB MARLEY

Robert Nesta Marley, better known as Bob Marley, was a singer, guitarist, songwriter from the ghettos of Jamaica. Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in Jamaica; he is the best known reggae musician of all times, famous for popularising the genre outside of Jamaica. His father was a Jamaican of English descent. His mother was a black teenager. Marley started his musical experimentation in ska and gravitated towards reggae as the music evolved, playing, teaching and singing for a long period in the 1970s and 1980s. Marley is perhaps best-known for work with his reggae group 'The Wailers', which included two other celebrated reggae musicians, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, the Wailers and produced their first album, "Catch a Fire". This was followed by "Burnin'", featuring tracks as "Get Up Stand Up" and "I Shot the Sheriff”. Livingstone and Tosh later left the group and went on to become successful solo artists. These successes introduced reggae music to the western world for the first time, and established the beginning of Marley's international status. In 1980 he was the only foreign artist to participated in the independence ceremony of Zimbabwe. It was a time of great success for Marley, and he started an American tour to reach blacks in the US. He played two shows at Madison Square Garden, but collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park on September 21, 1980. The cancer diagnosed earlier had spread to his brain, lungs and stomach. Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital on May 11, 1981. He was 36 years old.

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