Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley)
He was born at Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaic on February the 6th 1945. He died
at Miami, Florida, U.S.A, on May the 11th 1981.
He was a singer and guitarist of gospel, soul, ska, rock steady and reggae, an artistic director from 1959 to his death.
Bob Marley is really the first superstar coming from a poor country. His music, Jamaican reggae, a nearby drift of rhythm and blues and of American soul, is the voice of every nation of the world. His international career lasted only eight years. He died of cancer at 36 but his myth has survived him.
"Touch me Tomato" is the first song Nesta sang at
age five, striking pieces of wood to keep the rhythm. It is his step father
"Bunny" who made his first guitar out of a sardine tin, bamboo and
electric wire. In 1959 Bob won a pound at a public singing contest. After trying
different options, Bob met Jimmy Cliff and the Wailers in 1965. After 1971 hits
followed one another: " I shot the Sheriff", " Get up, Stand
up", " Could you Be Loved", "No Woman, no Cry" the
list is long.
The great Bob was a protest singer who defended the cause of oppressed people
in the third world, criticizing the perversity of politicians who played with
the nations of the world as with puppets.
The concerts of the great pope of reggae music have marked the world with unerasable
crosses.
Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley) :
He was born at Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaic on February the 6th 1945. He died
at Miami, Florida, U.S.A, on May the 11th 1981.
He was a singer and guitarist of gospel, soul, ska, rock steady and reggae, an artistic director from 1959 to his death.
Bob Marley is really the first superstar coming from a poor country. His music, Jamaican reggae, a nearby drift of rhythm and blues and of American soul, is the voice of every nation of the world. His international career lasted only eight years. He died of cancer at 36 but his myth has survived him.
"Touch me Tomato" is the first song Nesta sang at
age five, striking pieces of wood to keep the rhythm. It is his step father
"Bunny" who made his first guitar out of a sardine tin, bamboo and
electric wire. In 1959 Bob won a pound at a public singing contest. After trying
different options, Bob met Jimmy Cliff and the Wailers in 1965. After 1971 hits
followed one another: " I shot the Sheriff", " Get up, Stand
up", " Could you Be Loved", "No Woman, no Cry" the
list is long.
The great Bob was a protest singer who defended the cause of oppressed people
in the third world, criticizing the perversity of politicians who played with
the nations of the world as with puppets.
The concerts of the great pope of reggae music have marked the world with unerasable
crosses.