Favorite Singer

Bob Marley 
(1945/02/06 - 1981/05/11)

      

He was born on February 6, 1945 at Nine Miles in St. Ann, Jamaica.

Son of Cedella Booker, an African woman of eighteen years and of a white of fifty captain of the navy called Norval Marley. In the late fifties, he moved with his mother to Kingston, the capital.

He recorded his first album when he was sixteen years old "Judge Not". In 1963, the Wailers formed a group that at that time was dedicated to ska with Marley, Bunny Livingstone, and Peter Tosh. His first song "Simmer Down" was number one in Jamaica.

 

 

In 1966, Haile Sellasie visited Jamaica and Bob and the Wailers became Rastafarians. One of the central beliefs of the Rastafarians is faith in the importance of returning to "Mother Africa." They consider Ethiopia as the promised country, and the Emperor Haile Selassie, the Negus is God, the grass (ganja) is sacred.

Reggae became Jamaica's most representative music. It was born and developed from the hand of the heirs of the African slaves. Its beginnings are on the shores of the United States, where many Jamaican immigrants settled in the '50s, mixing their rhythms with the black influence of blues and jazz. It is almost impossible to separate this musical style from the main religious movement in Jamaica, since most of its representatives are adherents or practitioners of the Rastafarian religious belief. For them, reggae represents a spiritual music, a song to hope and, at the same time, a weapon against the oppression of Babylon, that is, against the excesses of white power.