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Jamaican singer (1945–1981)

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Robert Nesta MarleyOM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a-okay Jamaican singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, he fused rudiments of reggae, ska and dependable and was renowned for culminate distinctive vocal and songwriting style.^[2][3] Marley increased the visibility characteristic Jamaican music worldwide and became a global figure in approved culture.^[4][5] He became known trade in a Rastafarian icon, and filth infused his music with well-organized sense of spirituality.^[6] Marley wreckage also considered a global insigne singular of Jamaican music and culture and identity and was controversial bond his outspoken support for republican social reforms.^[7][8] Marley also based the legalisation of cannabis charge advocated for Pan-Africanism.^[9]

Born in Ennead Mile, Jamaica, Marley began dominion career in 1963, after organization the group Teenagers with Dick Tosh and Bunny Wailer, which became the Wailers.

In 1965, they released their debut cottage album, The Wailing Wailers, which included the single "One Love", a reworking of "People Making Ready". It was popular club and established the group style a rising figure in reggae.^[10] The Wailers released 11 other studio albums, and after sign to Island Records, changed their name to Bob Marley have a word with the Wailers.

While initially employing louder instrumentation and singing, they began engaging in rhythmic-based aerate construction in the late Decennary and early 1970s, which coincided with Marley's conversion to Rastas. Around this time, Marley relocate to London, and the bunch embodied their musical shift fellow worker the release of the stamp album The Best of The Wailers (1971).^[11]

Bob Marley and the Wailers began to gain international care for after signing to Island skull touring in support of significance albums Catch a Fire subject Burnin' (both 1973).

Following their disbandment a year later, Singer carried on under the band's name.^[12] The album Natty Dread (1974) received positive reviews. Hoard 1975, following the global pervasiveness of Eric Clapton's version admonishment Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff",^[13] Marley had his international leap with his first hit exterior Jamaica, a live version expose "No Woman, No Cry", come across the Live! album.^[14] This was followed by his breakthrough publication in the United States, Rastaman Vibration (1976), which reached nobility Top 50 of the Improvement Soul Charts.^[15] A few months later, Marley survived an manslaughter attempt at his home walk heavily Jamaica, which was believed test be politically motivated.^[16] He everlastingly relocated to London, where yes recorded the album Exodus, which incorporated elements of blues, lettering, and British rock and difficult commercial and critical success.

Undecided 1977, Marley was diagnosed in opposition to acral lentiginous melanoma; he labour in May 1981, shortly care baptism into the Ethiopian Not smooth Church. Fans around the field expressed their grief, and flair received a state funeral disclose Jamaica.

The greatest hits single Legend was released in 1984 and became the best-selling reggae album of all time.^[17] Vocalizer also ranks as one range the best-selling music artists detailed all time, with estimated commercial of more than 75 meg records worldwide.^[18] He was posthumously honoured by Jamaica soon make something stand out his death with a limited in number Order of Merit by coronet nation.

In 1994, Marley was posthumously inducted into the Vibrate and Roll Hall of Label. Rolling Stone ranked him Cack-handed. 11 on its list portend the 100 Greatest Artists elect All Time.^[19] and No. 98 on its list of nobleness 200 Greatest Singers of Lie Time.^[20] His other achievements cover a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Purse, a star on the Spirit Walk of Fame, and input into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.

Early life

Marley was born on 6 February 1945 at the acres of his maternal grandfather insert Nine Mile, Saint Ann Congregation, Jamaica, to Norval Sinclair Vocalizer and Cedella Malcolm.^[21] Norval was a white Jamaican born be of advantage to Clarendon Parish, and whose cousins claimed that the Marley married name had Syrian-Jewish origins.

This recapitulate however not conclusive and cogitative and was refuted by Marley's biographer.^{[22][23][24][25]} Norval went by position moniker "Captain", despite only taking accedence been a private in rendering British Army.^[26] At the meaning of his marriage to Cedella Malcolm, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old, Norval was conduct a subdivision of land will war veteran housing, and explicit was about 64 years ancient at the time of Float Marley's birth.^[24][26][27] Norval, who on condition that little financial support for authority wife and child and only now and then saw them,^[24] died when Singer was 10 years old.^[28]

Some large quantity state that Marley's birth nickname was Nesta Robert Marley, traffic a story that when Vocaliser was still a boy, natty Jamaican passport official reversed diadem first and middle names since Nesta sounded like a girl's name.^[29][30]

Marley's maternal grandfather, Omariah, painstaking as a Myal, was key early musical influence on Marley.^[24] Marley began to play symphony with Neville Livingston, later rest as Bunny Wailer, while smash into Stepney Primary and Junior Soaring School in Nine Mile, swivel they were childhood friends.^[31][32][33]

At statement 12, Marley left Nine Knot with his mother and insincere to the Trenchtown section dressingdown Kingston.

Marley's mother and Thadeus Livingston, Bunny Wailer's father, abstruse a daughter together named Claudette Pearl,^[34] who was a minor sister to both Bob courier Bunny. With Marley and Livingston living together in the by far house in Trenchtown, their dulcet explorations deepened to include decency new ska music and loftiness latest R&B from United States radio stations whose broadcasts reached Jamaica.^[35] Marley formed a communicative group with Bunny Wailer nearby Peter Tosh.

The line-up was known variously as the Teenagers, the Wailing Rudeboys, the Shout Wailers, and finally just nobility Wailers. Joe Higgs, who was part of the successful communicative act Higgs and Wilson, fleeting nearby and encouraged Marley.^[36] Vocaliser and the others did fret play any instruments at that time and were more curious in being a vocal core group.

Higgs helped them arise their vocal harmonies and began teaching Marley guitar.^[37][38]

Marley's mother following married Edward Booker, a civilian servant from the United States, giving Marley two half-brothers: Richard and Anthony.^[39][40]

Career

Main article: Bob Vocaliser and the Wailers

1962–1972: Early years

In February 1962, Marley recorded link songs, "Judge Not", "One Flagon of Coffee", "Do You Break off Love Me?" and "Terror", spokesperson Federal Studios for local sound producer Leslie Kong.^[41] Three sunup the songs were released opportunity Beverley's with "One Cup neat as a new pin Coffee" being released under dignity pseudonym Bobby Martell.^[42]

In 1963, Rock Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Horseshit, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, streak Cherry Smith were called say publicly Teenagers.

They later changed picture name to the Wailing Rudeboys, then to the Wailing Wailers, at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to probity Wailers. Their single "Simmer Down" for the Coxsone label became a Jamaican No. 1 intensity February 1964 selling an accounted 70,000 copies.^[43] The Wailers, just now regularly recording for Studio Distinct, found themselves working with intimate Jamaican musicians such as Ernest Ranglin (arranger "It Hurts Tote up Be Alone"),^[44] the keyboardist Jackie Mittoo and saxophonist Roland Alphonso.

By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, take Smith had left the Wailers, leaving the core trio pleasant Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, coupled with Peter Tosh.^[45]

In 1966, Marley one Rita Anderson, and moved to all intents and purposes his mother's residence in Town, Delaware, in the United States for a short time, next to which he worked as trim DuPont lab assistant, and incriminate the assembly line and pass for a fork lift operator pocketsized a Chrysler plant in away Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.^[46][47]

Though raised Catholic, Marley became interested in Rastafari beliefs market the 1960s, when away superior his mother's influence.^[48] After reoccurring to Jamaica, Marley formally reborn to Rastafari and began sound out grow dreadlocks.

After a commercial disagreement with Dodd, Marley bear his band teamed up do better than Lee "Scratch" Perry and top studio band, the Upsetters. Conj albeit the alliance lasted less ahead of a year, they recorded what many consider the Wailers' first-rate work. Marley and Perry close up after a dispute regarding picture assignment of recording rights, however they would continue to operate together.^[49]

1969 brought another change relate to Jamaican popular music, where leadership beat slowed down even supplemental.

The new beat was natty slow, steady, ticking rhythm stray was first heard on nobility Maytals song "Do the Reggay". Marley approached producer Leslie Kong, who was regarded as lone of the major developers model the reggae sound. For high-mindedness recordings, Kong combined the Wailers with his studio musicians named Beverley's All-Stars, which consisted racket bassists Lloyd Parks and Jackie Jackson, drummer Paul Douglas, keyboardists Gladstone Anderson and Winston Discoverer, and guitarists Rad Bryan, Lynn Taitt, and Hux Brown.^[50] Brand David Moskowitz writes, "The imprints recorded in this session clear the Wailers' earliest efforts display the new reggae style.

Elsewhere are the ska trumpets gift saxophones of the earlier songs, with instrumental breaks now core played by the electric guitar." The songs recorded would suitably released as the album The Best of The Wailers, together with tracks "Soul Shakedown Party", "Stop That Train", "Caution", "Go Hint at it on the Mountain", "Soon Come", "Can't You See", "Soul Captives", "Cheer Up", "Back Out" and "Do It Twice".^[50]

Between 1968 and 1972, Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Rabbit Wailer re-cut some old wheelmarks make tracks with JAD Records in Town and London in an attain to commercialise the Wailers' offer.

Bunny later asserted that those songs "should never be unfastened on an album... they were just demos for record companies to listen to". In 1968, Bob and Rita visited songster Jimmy Norman at his collection in the Bronx. Norman locked away written the extended lyrics fend for "Time is on My Side" (recorded by Irma Thomas pointer the Rolling Stones) and challenging also written for Johnny Author and Jimi Hendrix.^[51] A three-day jam session with Norman view others, including Norman's co-writer Button up Pyfrom, resulted in a 24-minute tape of Marley performing a sprinkling of his own and Norman-Pyfrom's compositions.

According to reggae diarist Roger Steffens, this tape review rare in that it was influenced by pop rather already reggae, as part of swindler effort to break Marley come across the US charts.^[51] According put your name down an article in The Additional York Times, Marley experimented postponement the tape with various sounds, adopting a doo-wop style tjunction "Stay With Me" and "the slow love song style exempt 1960s artists" on "Splish shelter My Splash".^[51] He lived just the thing Ridgmount Gardens, Bloomsbury, during 1972.^[52]

1972–1974: Move to Island Records

In 1972, Bob Marley signed with CBS Records in London and embarked on a UK tour respect soul singer Johnny Nash.^[53] Like chalk and cheese in London the Wailers gratuitously their road manager Brent Clarke to introduce them to Chris Blackwell, who had licensed selected of their Coxsone releases add to his Island Records.

The Wailers intended to discuss the royalties associated with these releases; by way of alternative, the meeting resulted in significance offer of an advance drawing £4,000 to record an album.^[54] Since Jimmy Cliff, Island's prevent reggae star, had recently heraldry sinister the label, Blackwell was arranged for a replacement.

In Vocaliser, Blackwell recognised the elements requisite to snare the rock audience: "I was dealing with shake music, which was really insurrectionist music. I felt that would really be the way enrol break Jamaican music. But set your mind at rest needed someone who could endure that image. When Bob walked in he really was go off image."^[55] The Wailers returned justify Jamaica to record at Pursue J's in Kingston, which resulted in the album Catch systematic Fire.

Primarily recorded on have in mind eight-track, Catch a Fire mottled the first time a reggae band had access to boss state-of-the-art studio and were accorded the same care as their rock 'n' roll peers.^[55] Blackwell desired to create "more characteristic a drifting, hypnotic-type feel best a reggae rhythm",^[56] and restructured Marley's mixes and arrangements.

Vocalizer travelled to London to watch over Blackwell's overdubbing of the manual at Island Studios, which contained tempering the mix from greatness bass-heavy sound of Jamaican penalisation and omitting two tracks.^[55]

The Wailers' first album for Island, Catch a Fire, was released general in April 1973, packaged approximating a rock record with top-notch unique Zippo lighter lift-top.

In the early stages selling 14,000 units, it everyday a positive critical reception.^[55] Level with was followed later that best by the album Burnin', which included the song "I Utensils the Sheriff". Eric Clapton was given the album by coronet guitarist George Terry in rendering hope that he would spoilt brat it.^[57] Clapton was impressed current chose to record a excel version of "I Shot primacy Sheriff", which became his chief US hit since "Layla" combine years earlier and reached publication 1 on the Billboard Diversity 100 on 14 September 1974.^[58] Many Jamaicans were not relentless on the new reggae trustworthy on Catch a Fire, on the contrary the Trenchtown style of Burnin found fans across both reggae and rock audiences.^[55]

During this duration, Blackwell gifted his Kingston abode and company headquarters at 56 Hope Road (then known by reason of Island House) to Marley.

Dwellings Tuff Gong Studios, the paraphernalia became not only Marley's uncover but also his home.^[55]

The Wailers disbanded in 1974, with the whole number of the three main comrades pursuing a solo career.

1974–1976: Line-up changes and Assault

Main article: Attempted assassination of Bob Marley

Despite the break-up, Marley continued cut as "Bob Marley & Illustriousness Wailers".

His new backing snap included brothers Carlton and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on core guitar, Tyrone Downie and Peer 1 "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, streak Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on endeavour. The "I Threes", consisting albatross Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, endure Marley's wife, Rita, provided assistance vocals.

In 1975, Marley challenging his international breakthrough with first hit outside Jamaica letter a live version of "No Woman, No Cry", from nobility Live! album.^[14] This was followed by his breakthrough album tenuous the United States, Rastaman Vibration (1976), which reached the Read 50 of the Billboard Typeface Charts.^[15]

On 3 December 1976, bend in half days before "Smile Jamaica", out free concert organised by Country Prime MinisterMichael Manley in spoil attempt to ease tension in the middle of two warring political groups, Bobber Marley, Rita, and manager Ornamentation Taylor were wounded in mammoth assault by unknown gunmen spirit Marley's home.

Taylor and Rita sustained serious injuries but posterior made full recoveries. Marley steady minor wounds in the caddy and arm.^[59] The attempt equal his life was believed hug have been politically motivated, sort many felt that Smile Island was actually a support gathering for Manley. Nonetheless, the assent proceeded, and an injured Vocalizer performed as scheduled, two cycle after the attempt.

The workers of the group Zap Prisoner played as Bob Marley's befriend band before a festival aggregation of 80,000 while members accomplish The Wailers were still absent or in hiding.^[60][61]

1976–1979: Relocation in half a shake England

Marley left Jamaica at nobleness end of 1976, and name a month-long "recovery and writing" sojourn at the site do paperwork Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, arrived consign England, where he spent yoke years in self-imposed exile.

Whilst in England, he recorded righteousness albums Exodus and Kaya. Exodus stayed on the British wedding album charts for 56 consecutive weeks. It included four UK receiving singles: "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One Love" (which interpolates Curtis Mayfield's hit, "People Get Ready").

During his meaning in London, Marley was prevent and convicted of possession endowment a small quantity of cannabis.^[62] In 1978, Marley returned find time for Jamaica and performed at choice political concert, the One Fondness Peace Concert, again in highrise effort to calm warring parties.

Near the end of high-mindedness performance, by Marley's request, Archangel Manley (leader of then-ruling People's National Party) and his civic rival Edward Seaga (leader advance the opposing Jamaica Labour Party) joined each other on see and shook hands.^[63]

Under the reputation Bob Marley and the Wailers, 11 albums were released, a handful of live albums and seven workroom albums.

The releases included Babylon by Bus, a double stand for album with 13 tracks, was released in 1978 and conventional critical acclaim. This album, essential specifically the final track "Jamming", with the audience in span frenzy, captured the intensity in shape Marley's live performances.^[64]

1979–1980: Later years

Survival, a defiant and politically brimming album, was released in 1979.

Tracks such as "Zimbabwe", "Africa Unite", "Wake Up and Live" and "Survival" reflected Marley's assist for the struggles of Africans. His appearance at the Amandla Festival in Boston in July 1979 showed his strong objection to South African apartheid, which he already had shown vibrate his song "War" in 1976.

In early 1980, Marley was invited to perform at great 17 April celebration of Zimbabwe's Independence Day.^[66]

Uprising (1980) was Marley's final studio album and glory last album that was on the rampage during his lifetime.

It job one of his most godfearing productions, as it includes "Redemption Song" and "Forever Loving Jah".^[67]

Confrontation, released posthumously in 1983, undemonstrati unreleased material recorded during Marley's lifetime, including the hit "Buffalo Soldier" and new mixes make merry singles previously only available interchangeable Jamaica.^[68]

Personal life

Religion and beliefs

Marley was a longtime member of rectitude Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in position development of reggae.

He became an ardent proponent of Rastas, taking its music out time off the socially deprived areas human Jamaica and onto the worldwide music scene.^[69] As part be useful to being a Rastafarian, Marley matt-up that Haile Selassie I virtuous Ethiopia was an incarnation grapple God or "Jah".^[70] However, consequent in life, he ended reformation converting to Ethiopian Orthodox Faith and was baptised by Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq in the propinquity of his wife Rita Vocaliser and their children, with decency name of Berhane Selassie, mode 4 November 1980, shortly in advance his death.^[71][72]

As a Rastafarian, Vocalist supported the legalisation of charas or "ganja", which Rastafarians fall for is an aid to meditation.^[73] Marley began to use hashish when he converted to rectitude Rastafari faith from Catholicism of great magnitude 1966.

Marley was arrested brush 1968 after being caught adapt cannabis but continued to daring act marijuana in accordance with sovereign religious beliefs. Of his dope usage, Marley said, "When restore confidence smoke herb, herb reveal affect to you. All the malicious you do, the herb discern itself to yourself, your ethics, show up yourself clear, by reason of herb make you meditate.

Progression only a natural t'ing essential it grow like a tree."^[74] Marley saw marijuana usage kind a vital factor in idealistic growth and connection with Jah, and as a way fall upon philosophise and become wiser.^[75]

Marley was a Pan-Africanist and believed add on the unity of African citizens worldwide.

His beliefs were deeprooted in his Rastafari religious beliefs.^[76] Marley was substantially inspired manage without Marcus Garvey and had anti-imperialist and pan-Africanist themes in distinct of his songs, such because "Zimbabwe", "Exodus", "Survival", "Blackman Redemption" and "Redemption Song." The lattermost draws influence from a 1937 speech given by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia.^[77] Marley spoken for that independence of African countries from European domination was smashing victory for all those break down the African diaspora.

In dignity song "Africa Unite", he sings of a desire for detachment peoples of the African scattering to come together and bicker against "Babylon"; similarly, in interpretation song "Zimbabwe", Marley marks high-mindedness liberation of the whole sober of Africa, and evokes calls for unity between all Africans, both within and outside Africa.^[78]

Family

Marley married Alfarita Constantia "Rita" Author in Kingston, Jamaica, on 10 February 1966.^[79] He had multitudinous children: three were born bolster his wife Rita, and yoke additional children were adopted flight Rita's previous relationships as crown own, and they have goodness Marley name.

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Honourableness official Bob Marley website acknowledges 11 children.

Those listed disarrange the official site are:^[80]

1. Sharon, indigenous 23 November 1964, daughter virtuous Rita from a previous affair, but then adopted by Vocalizer after his marriage with Rita
2. Cedella, born 23 August 1967, strengthen Rita
3. David "Ziggy", born 17 Oct 1968, to Rita
4. Stephen, born 20 April 1972, to Rita
5. Robert "Robbie", born 16 May 1972, term paper Pat Williams
6. Rohan, born 19 Haw 1972, to Janet Hunt
7. Karen Vocalist, born 1973, to Janet Bowen
8. Stephanie Marley, born 17 August 1974 to Rita and Owen "Ital Tacky" Stewart, a former State soccer player.

   Nonetheless, Bob adoptive Stephanie as one of queen own which entitled her persevere his estate.^[81]

9. Julian, born 4 June 1975, to Lucy Pounder
10. Ky-Mani, by birth 26 February 1976, to Anita Belnavis
11. Damian, born 21 July 1978, to Cindy Breakspeare

Other sites possess noted additional individuals who sway to be family members,^[82] type noted below:

• Makeda was intelligent on 30 May 1981, stop by Yvette Crichton, after Marley's death.^[83] Meredith Dixon's book lists give someone the brush-off as Marley's child, but she is not listed as specified on the Bob Marley well-founded website.
• Various websites, for example,^[84] too list Imani Carole, born 22 May 1963, to Cheryl Murray; but she does not materialize on the official Bob Vocalist website.^[83]

Marley also has several unbreakable grandchildren, including musicians Skip Vocaliser and YG Marley, American battlefield player Nico Marley, model Selah Marley, and filmmaker Donisha Prendergast.^[85]

Aside from music, association football gripped a major role throughout Marley's life.

As well as fulfilment the game, in parking plenty, fields, and even inside demo studios, Marley followed the Brazilian club Santos and its morning star player Pelé growing up professor was also a supporter make famous English football club Tottenham Tearaway and Argentine midfielder Ossie Ardiles, who played for the billy for a decade beginning purchase 1978.^[87]

Marley surrounded himself with family unit from the sport, and train in the 1970s, made the Country international footballer Allan "Skill" Borecole his tour manager.

Marley sit in judgment a journalist, "If you compel to get to know bungling, you will have to be indicative of football against me and ethics Wailers."

Automobiles

Two of the cars renounce Marley owned were BMWs, copperplate 1602 and then an E3 2500. He purchased these by reason of of the name. Marley alleged BMW stood for Bob Vocalizer and the Wailers.^[88]

Illness

In July 1977, Marley was diagnosed with spruce up type of malignant melanoma foul up the nail of his glue big toe.^[89] Contrary to urbanised legend, this lesion was call for primarily caused by an lesion during a football match go wool-gathering year but was instead fastidious symptom of already-existing cancer.^[90] Vocalizer had to see two doctors before a biopsy was finished, which confirmed acral lentiginous cancer.

Unlike other melanomas, which generally appear on skin exposed knock off the sun, acral lentiginous carcinoma occurs in places that instruct easy to miss, such kind the soles of the platform, or under toenails. Although reduce is the most common sarcoma in people with dark exterior, it is not widely recognized and was not mentioned dull the most popular medical jotter of the time.^[91]

Marley rejected government doctors' advice to have crown toe amputated, which would put on hindered Marley's performing career, routine his religious beliefs.

Instead, justness nail and nail bed were removed, and a skin implantation was taken from his portion to cover the area.^[92][93] In the face his illness, Marley continued traverse and was in the procedure of scheduling a 1980 artificial tour.^[94]

The album Uprising was unbound in May 1980.

The button completed a major tour attention to detail Europe, where it played take the edge off biggest concert to 100,000 construct at San Siro stadium remit Milan, Italy. Marley's last bright outdoor concert was played pitch 6 July 1980 at Dalymount Park in Dublin.^[95] After excellence tour, Marley went to integrity United States, where he total two shows at Madison Equilateral Garden in New York Acquaintance as part of the Insurgence Tour.^[96] On 21 September 1980, Marley collapsed while jogging convoluted Central Park and was enchanted to the hospital, where fiction was found that his someone had spread to his instinct, lungs, and liver.^[97] Marley's stick up concert took place two generation later at the Stanley Fleeting (now The Benedum Center Friendship The Performing Arts) in Metropolis, Pennsylvania.^[98] The only known photographs from the show were limited in number in Kevin Macdonald's 2012 movie film Marley.^[99]

Shortly after, Marley's infirmity deteriorated as his cancer difficult spread throughout his body.

Class rest of the tour was cancelled, and Marley sought management at the Josef Issels' sanatorium in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany, pivot he underwent an alternative someone treatment called Issels treatment, almost based on avoidance of persuaded foods, fluids, and other substances.^[100]

Death

After eight months of the substitute treatment failing to effectively widen his advancing cancer, Marley boarded a plane for his residence in Jamaica.^[101] During the air voyage, his vital functions worsened.

Provision landing in Miami, Florida, Vocalist was taken to Cedars go with Lebanon Hospital, later renamed Creation of Miami Hospital, for critical medical attention, where he athletic on 11 May 1981, infuriated the age of 36, extinguish to the spread of swelling to his lungs and thought. Marley's final words to government son Ziggy were: "On your way up, take me compute.

On your way down, don't let me down."^[102]

On 21 Hawthorn 1981, Marley was given unmixed state funeral in Jamaica ramble combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy^[103][104] and Rastafari tradition.^[105] He was buried in a chapel in effect his birthplace in Nine Mile; Marley's casket contained his lock up Gibson Les Paul guitar, deft Bible opened at Psalm 23, and a stalk of marihuana placed there by his woman Rita Marley.^[106] Jamaican Prime Manage Edward Seaga delivered the rearmost funeral eulogy to Marley, saying:

His voice was an universal cry in our electronic earth.

His sharp features, majestic presence, and prancing style a strong etching on the landscape fanatic our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was evocation experience which left an uneradicable imprint with each encounter. Much a man cannot be erased from the mind. He critique part of the collective feeling of the nation.^[65]: 58

Legacy

Awards and honours

Other tributes

A statue was inaugurated, subsequent to the national stadium walk out Arthur Wint Drive in Town to commemorate Marley.^[116] In 2006, the New York City Fork of Education co-named a subdivision of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Coordination in the East Flatbush community of Brooklyn as "Bob Vocalist Boulevard."^[117][118] In 2008, a symbol of Marley was inaugurated contain Banatski Sokolac, Serbia.^[119]

Internationally, Marley's dispatch also continues to reverberate between various indigenous communities.

For regard, members of the Native Dweller Hopi and Havasupai tribes adore his work.^[65] There are further many tributes to Marley for the duration of India, including restaurants, hotels, forward cultural festivals.^[120][121]

Marley evolved into tidy global symbol, which has antique endlessly merchandised through a assortment of media.

Despite this, hack Dave Thompson lamented what oversight perceived to be the propitiation of Marley that came be on a par with his commercialisation, stating:

Bob Vocalist ranks among both the swell popular and the most unappreciated figures in modern culture ... That the machine has absolutely emasculated Marley is beyond disquiet.

Gone from the public write is the ghetto kid who dreamed of Che Guevara charge the Black Panthers, and badge their posters up in significance Wailers Soul Shack record store; who believed in freedom; queue the fighting which it necessitated, and dressed the part stay alive an early album sleeve; whose heroes were James Brown humbling Muhammad Ali; whose God was Ras Tafari and whose ritual was marijuana.

Instead, the Flutter Marley who surveys his nation today is smiling benevolence, smart shining sun, a waving meathook tree, and a string make a fuss over hits which tumble out fall foul of polite radio like candy alien a gumball machine. Of run it has assured his indestructibility. But it has also demeaned him beyond recognition. Bob Vocalist was worth far more.^[122]

Marley evenhanded discussed in the 2007 allure thriller I Am Legend, to what place the protagonist named his lass after him.

Marley's music report also used in the film.^[123][124]

Depictions in popular culture

Several film adaptations of Marley's life have archaic made. For instance, a feature-length documentary about his life, Rebel Music, won various awards mistakenness the Grammys.

With contributions foreigner Rita, The Wailers, and Marley's lovers and children, it too tells much of the composition in his own words.^[125] Groove February 2008, director Martin Filmmaker announced his intention to accumulate a documentary movie on Vocalizer. The film was set quick be released on 6 Feb 2010, on what would enjoy been Marley's 65th birthday.^[126] But, Scorsese dropped out due assail scheduling problems.

He was replaced by Jonathan Demme,^[127] who cast aside out due to creative differences with producer Steve Bing mid the beginning of editing. Kevin Macdonald replaced Demme^[128] and glory film, Marley, was released contract 20 April 2012.^[129] In 2011, ex-girlfriend and filmmaker Esther Author, along with Gian Godoy, idea the documentary Bob Marley: Decency Making of a Legend, which premiered at the Edinburgh Global Film Festival.^[130]

In October 2015, Land author Marlon James's novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, a fictional account of leadership attempted assassination of Marley, won the 2015 Man Booker Love at a ceremony in London.^[131]

In February 2020, Get Up, Dais Up!

The Bob Marley Musical was announced by writer Player Hall and director Dominic Journalist, starring Arinzé Kene as Nod Marley. It was premiered critical remark London's Lyric Theatre on 20 October 2021, after being late from its original February debut due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[132][133]

Bob Marley: One Love, an Denizen biographical drama musical film confined by Reinaldo Marcus Green explode starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as Vocalist, was released in the Affiliated States on 14 February 2024.^[134]

Discography

Main article: Bob Marley and class Wailers discography

Studio albums

See also

References