Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley, dit)
Born in Nine Mile, St. Ann, Jamaica, February 6, 1945, died in Miami, Florida, USA, May 11, 1981
His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of English descent and her mother Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican

Singer and guitarist songs, soul, Ska (Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues,) rock steady and reggae, artistic director, active from 1959 to his death.

Bob Marley is the first (and last?) Real superstar came from a poor country. His music, Jamaican reggae, a close derivative of rhythm & blues and American soul is the voice of all the oppressed peoples of the earth, on whose behalf he speaks. Brilliant singer and prolific songwriter, his international career lasted just eight intense years. Besides his wonderful creations, and social and spiritual aura quickly give an example, and for many, a prophet. He succumbed to cancer (melanoma) in full glory at thirty-six, but his myth survives and grows from out of all proportions.
Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds",[2] as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, being 10 times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S.,[3] and selling 20 million copies worldwide.
He associated with The Wailers, Wailers Band, The Upsetters, I Threes,and finally created Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Marley was a hero figure, in the classic mythological sense. His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love -- inspired by his belief in Rastafari -- was beginning to be heard and felt. The last Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest audiences at that time for any