Bob Marley: biografi og musikalsk arv

Robert Nesta Marley, also known as Bob Marley was born the sixth February nineteen fourty five in Nine Miles, a city in Jamaica.

His mother was Cedella Booker - a black, jamaican teenager and his father was a white, British officer named Norval Sinclair. They were married seven months before Bob Marley’s birth, but his father left the family and Marley never knew his father. He had a tough childhood because he lived without his dad and because he looked different.

In nineteen sixty two, Bob Marley recorded his two first singles, ‘Judge Not’ and ‘One Cup Of Coffee’. One year later Bob Marley started the reggae group, The Wailers, with his friends Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. From nineteen sixty three to nineteen sixty nine did they release hundreds of singles in Jamaica. In nineteen sixty nine did The Wailers make a deal with the producer Lee Perry. Together with Lee Perry did Marley make some of his best music and other singers had success with Bob Marley songs. Johnny Nash with Stir It Up and Eric Clapton with I Shot The Sheriff. In nineteen seventy six they got the band of the year award.

In the mid seventies he signed a contract with Island Records and he got a huge breakthrough with his album, Natty Dread. When he published the album ‘Live’ in nineteen seventy five he got the whole world’s attention.