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Memoral for Robert Nesta Marley ~1945 - 1981~
Robert Nesta Marley born February 6, 1945 in Nine Miles, St. Ann Jamaica, transcended the humility of his rural beginnings to become a million-selling artist and entertainer whose pleas for brotherhood, justice and peace achieved international fame.

Few have attained the level of fame Marley did in his short time on the world stage. Marley's "world stage" was a true one; as a performer whose sensibilities were thoroughly enmeshed in the developing world--his world--Marley addressed poverty, the loss of cultural identity, and racism. In other words, he sang about issues that mattered to people just like him. Yet, Bob Marley was in ways very different from the people like him. His father, a colonial functionary named Captain Norval Marley, was white, and left the young Robert Nesta Marley with a surname and little else before disappearing shortly after the boy's 1945 birth.

Trench Town, immortalized in the Marley songs "Trench Town Rock," and "No Woman No Cry," was young Bob's first home in Kingston. At the young age of 16 he started singing professionally, releasing his first single "Judge Not". Under the coaching of Joe Higgs, Bob Marley met two other youngsters Bunny Livingstone & Peter Tosh and together the Wailing Wailers group was formed in 1963. By 1966, Bob had met and married Trench Town singer, Rita Anderson.


by - TheZionChild