Bob Marley the True Rastafari
Bob Marley the True RastafariBob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley) was born on 6 February 1945 in
Nine Miles in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica. His father (Norval
Sinclair Marley) was a English marine-officer and his mother (Cedella
'Ciddy'Malcom)was a native Jamaican who lived in Rhoden Hall. After
Bob was born, his father left his mother.
When Bob was five, his father took him to Kingston. Oneyear later
Bob saw his mother again. A couple of years later Bob and his mother
moved to Trench Town (West-Kingston) because his mother was looking
for a job. Bob Marley loved the fast life in the big city, as well as
the music of Fats Domino, Ray Charles he heard. Not much later Bob got
his nickname Tuff Gong. Meanwhile Jamaican musicians were working on
their own style of music. They invented ska and this music became very
popular in Jamaica.
At age 16 Bob wanted to record an album. Like other Jamaican kids
he saw the music as an escape of the though reality. Jimmy Cliff, a
local musician (only 14 years old), had already made a few (hit)
singles and introduced Bob to producer Leslie Kong. Bob made his first
single Judge Not in 1961, but this record and the next one One More
Cup Of Coffee (1962) didn't do well. Bob left Kong after he hadn't
received a paycheck of Lesly Kong.
In 1964 Peter (McIn)Tosh, Bunny Livingstone (alias Bunny Wailer),
Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry, Constantine 'Dream Vision'
Walker and Bob Marley formed the band The Wailers. Cherry and Junior
left the band after a few recording sessions. By the recording of
their songs they used ska musicians of Coxsone Dodd's Studio One. Bob
Marley acted as the leader of the band and he wrote most of the
material. The Wailers became very popular in 1965: they played full
houses. On the Coxsone-label they recorded several hits: Simmer Down,
It Hurts To Be Alone, Rule Them Rudie.
It was 10 February 1966 when Bob Marley married Rita Anderson.
The day after, Bob went to the United States to visit his mother and
her new husband. During Bob's stay in the States, Beverly Kelso left
The Wailers and Rita and her cousin Dream joined the band. The Wailers
changed their music from ska to rocksteady. The next year (the same
year Bob's first child, Cedella, was born) the band left Coxsone and
set up their own record label Wail 'N Soul 'M Record, also known as
Wailing Souls, Wail 'M Soul 'M. Their first single from this label was
Bend Down Low/Mellow Mood. At the end of that year, that same label
was put an end to.
In 1968 Bob's first son, David (better known as Ziggy) was born.
That same year Bob met Jonny Nash. The Wailers recorded songs for the
record company JAD...
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