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| Bob Marley |
He was born Nesta Robert Marley, February 6, 1945, at St Ann's Parish, Jamaica.
Singer, songwriter, guitarist and bandleader in the Jamaican national idiom
of reggae, his greatness as a musician combining with transparent honesty and
hatred of violence to make him the only world-wide superstar the genre has had.
His mother was Jamaican, father English; he read palms as a child, but began
singing after spending a year in Kingston at age six; moved there permanently
'57, growing up in the tough slum of Trench Town, where youths became street
anarchists, jobless in Eden because of the island's primitive economy after
more than 400 years of colonial rule.
Bob Marley put out nothing but the best of what reggae music
has to offer. Bob Marley was the catalyst for the great reggae movement that
put reggae on the worldwide map. If it wasn't for Bob, there might not have
been a Bigupradio or at least maybe not for another 15-20 years. We have a dedicated
Bob page you can find here. Listening to Bob's poetic music
is pure meditation. Some of his great many hits inlude "Kaya",
"African Herbsman", "Bad Card", "Satisfy My Soul",
"Sun Is Shining", "No Woman No Cry", "Exodus",
"Natural Mystic", "Concrete Jungle" but we can't list
them all. If don't own a half a dozen Bob albums yet then you may want to start
with his wonderful Box Set "Songs of Freedom."
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