Bob marley poems Continue Adult - Christian - Death - Family - Friendship - Haiku - Hope - Sense of Humor - Love - Nature - Pain - Sad - Spiritual - Teen - Wedding - Marley's Birthday redirects here. For other purposes, see Marley (disambiguation). Jamaican singer-songwriter The HonourableBob MarleyOMMarley performs in 1980BornRobert Nesta Marley (1945- 02-06)February 6, 1945Nine Mile, Mile St. Ann Parish, Colony jamaicaDied11 May 1981 (1981-05-11) (age 36)Miami, Florida, USA Cause of deathMamanoma (skin cancer)Other names Donald Marley Taff Gong Profession Singer Wife (s) Rita Anderson (m. After 1966) Partner (s) Cindy Breakspeare (1977-1978)Children 11 SharonSeddaDavid Siggy StephenRobertRohan Karen StephanieJulianKy-ManiDamian Parent (s) Norval Marley Sedella Booker Relatives Skip Marley (grandson) Nico Marley (grandson) Musical careerGenres Reggae rock Music Instruments Vocals Guitar Drums Years active1962-1981Labels Beverly Studio One JAD Wail'n Soul'm Upsetter Taff Gong Island Associated ActsBob Marley and WailersWebsitebobmarley.com Robert Nesta Marley, OM (February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981) was Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by a fusion of elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well as his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. Marley's contribution to music has increased the visibility of Jamaican music around the world and has made him a global figure in popular culture for more than a decade. During his career, Marley became known as the Rastafari icon, and he imbued his music with a sense of spirituality. He is also considered a global symbol of Jamaican music and culture and identity, and has been controversial in his outspoken support for marijuana legalization, while he has also advocated for pan-African. Born in Nine Miles, British Jamaica, Marley began his professional music career in 1963, after the formation of Bob Marley and the Wailers. In 1965, the band released their debut studio album, The Wailing Wailers, with the single One Love/People Get Ready; The song was popular all over the world, and created the band as a growing figure in reggae. Subsequently, The Wailers released eleven more studio albums; while initially using louder instruments and singing, the band began to participate in the artistic basis of song construction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, coinciding with the transformation of the singer into Rastafarianism. During this period, Marley moved to London, and the band typical of their musical shift with the release of the album The Best of The Wailers (1971). The band achieved international success after the release of Catch a Fire and Burnin' albums (both 1973) and forged a reputation as touring artists. After the dissolution A year later, Marley released his solo material called the band. His debut studio album Natty Dread (1974) received a positive review, as did his sequel Rastaman Vibration (1976). A few months after the album's release, Marley survived an assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica, prompting him to move permanently to London. During his time in London, he recorded the album Exodus (1977); it included elements of blues, soul and British rock, enjoyed widespread commercial and critical success. In 1977, Marley was diagnosed with aral lentyginal melanoma; he died as a result of the disease in 1981. His fans around the world expressed their grief and he received a state funeral in Jamaica. Legend was released in 1984 and became the best-selling reggae album of all time. Marley is also considered one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with an estimated sales of over 75 million records worldwide. Shortly after his death, he was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit by Jamaica. In 1994, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked him 11th on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Robert Nest Marley's early life and career was born on February 6, 1945, on his maternal grandfather's farm in Nine Miles, Parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, to the family of Norall Sinclair Marley and Sedella Malcolm. Norval Marley was a white Jamaican from the Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, whose family claimed to be of Syrian Jewish origin. Norval claimed to have been a captain of the Royal Marines; During his marriage to Cedella Malcolm, An Afro-Jamaica then 18 years old, he was used as plantation warden. Bob Marley's full name is Robert Nesta Marley, although some sources call his name Nesta Robert Marley, with the story that when Marley was still a boy, the Jamaican passport official changed his name and offspring because Nesta sounded like the girl's name. Norval provided financial support to his wife and child, but rarely saw them, as he was often not there. Bob Marley attended Stepney Elementary and High School, which serves the St. Ann's catchments. Marley's mother later married Edward Booker, a U.S. civil servant, giving Marley two brothers, Richard and Anthony. Bob Marley and Neville Livingston (later known as Bunny Wheeler) were childhood friends on the Nine Mile. They started playing music together while at Stepney Elementary and High School. Marley left the Nine Mile with his mother when he was 12 and moved to Trenchtown, Kingston. He and Thaddeus Livingston (Bunny Weiler's father) had a daughter they named Pearl, who was Bob and Bunny's little sister. Now that Marley and Livingston lived together in the same house in Trenchtown, their musical studies have deepened to include the latest RCB from United States radio stations, whose broadcasts have reached Jamaica, and new ska music. The move to Trenchtown was accidental, and Marley soon found himself in a vocal group with Bunny Weiler, Peter Tosh, Beverly Kelso and Junior Braithwaite. Joe Higgs, who was part of the successful vocal act of Higgs and Wilson, lived on 3rd St. and his singing partner Roy Wilson was raised by his grandmother Junior Braithwaite. Higgs and Wilson rehearsed at the back of the house between 2nd and 3rd streets, and soon, Marley (now living on 2nd St),, Junior Braithwaite and others gathered around this successful duo. Marley and others did not play any instruments at this time, and were more interested in being a vocal group of harmony. Higgs was happy to help them develop their vocal harmonies, although more importantly, he began to teach Marley how to play guitar, thus creating a framework that would later allow Marley to build some of the best-selling reggae songs in the history of the genre. Musical Career Main Article: Bob Marley and the Wailers 1962- 72: Early Years In February 1962 Marley recorded four songs, Judge No, One Cup of Coffee, Do You Still Love Me? and Terror, in the Federal Studio for local music producer Leslie Kong. Three songs were released on Beverly with One Cup of Coffee under the pseudonym Bobby Martell. In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wheeler, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso and Cherry Smith were named Teenagers. They later changed their name to Wailing Rudeboys, then to Wailing Wailers, after which they were discovered by producer Coxon Dodd, and finally by the Wailers. Their single Simmer Down for Coxsone became the first in Jamaica in February 1964, selling about 70,000 copies. The Wailers, currently a regular recording for Studio One, found themselves working with famous Jamaican musicians such as Ernest Ranglin (arranger of It Hurts To Be Alone), keyboardist Jackie Mittou and saxophonist Roland Alfonso. By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, and Smith had left the Wailers, leaving the main trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Weiler and Peter Tosh. In 1966, Marley married Ryth Anderson and briefly moved into his mother's home in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, during which time he worked as an assistant at the DuPont Laboratory and on the assembly line at the Chrysler plant in nearby Newark under the pseudonym Donald Marley. Although Marley grew up as a Catholic, he became interested in Rastafari's beliefs in the 1960s, when he was away from his mother's influence. After In Jamaica, Marley officially converted to Rastafari and began to grow dreadlocks. After a financial disagreement with Dodd, Marley and his band teamed up with Lee Scratch Perry and his studio band, Upsetters. Although the alliance lasted less than a year, they recorded what many consider the best work of the Wailers. Marley and Perry broke up after a dispute over the appropriation of recording rights, but they continued to work together. 1969 brought another change in Jamaican popular music, in which the rhythm slowed even more. The new rhythm was a slow, steady, ticking rhythm that was first heard on the song Maytals Do the Reggay. Marley turned to producer Leslie Kong, who was considered one of the main developers of reggae sound. For the recordings, Kong teamed up with his studio musicians called Beverley's All-Stars, which included bassists Lloyd Parks and Jackie Jackson, drummer Paul Douglas, keyboardists Gladstone Anderson and Winston Wright, as well as guitarists Rad Bryan, Lynn Taitt and Hux Brown. As David Moskowitz writes, The tracks recorded in this session illustrated wailers' first efforts in a new reggae style. Gone are the ska trumpets and saxophones from previous songs, with instrumental breaks now playing electric guitar. Recorded songs will be released as The Best of The Wailers, including tracks Soul Shakedown Party, Stop That Train, Caution, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Soon Come, Can't You See, Soul Captives, Cheer Up, Back Out and Do It Twice. Bob Marley's apartment in 1972 at 34 Ridgmount Gardens, Bloomsbury, London between 1968 and 1972, Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wheeler cut some old tracks with JAD Records in Kingston and London in an attempt to commercialize the sound of wailers.