Mi very fav reggae singer. Watch for mi post in Jamaica Vacations wid pics a his mausoleum and surronding area. Soon cum.

i like mellow mood as well thats a good one.

Pics of Bob Marley complex in Jamaica Vacations/July 2004 Trip. Enjoy!

mi si dung ya di mawnin, an mi cya believe seh mi neva si nuttin pan ya bout Bob Marley birtstrong laas week. A wen NF mention it dis mawnin mi memba seh a did Feb. 6th.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO THE ONE AND ONLY HONORABLE ROBERT NESTA MEARLEY O.M.




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.
The young Bob was an early and impassioned convert to Rastafarianism. The unique Jamaican sect espouses redemption for displaced Africans through rejection of western influences and identification with the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I, who is considered by Rastafarians to be the personification of God, Jah Ras Tafari. Marley's music was reggae, a form virtually unheard outside Jamaica, until his early-'70s explosion on the scene, along with original Wailers Neville "Bunny" Wailer (Livingston) and the late Peter Tosh.

In 1972, Island Records president Chris Blackwell signed the Wailers to a record contract allowing them to release records under the "Tuff Gong" label. After there first two albums the group broke up leaving Marley as the head of the band. A female back-up group called the "I-Threes" - Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt & Marcia Griffiths was then added to the band and the new group was named "Bob Marley and The Wailers".

In 1979, Marley made his first trip to Africa where he visited Ethiopia, the spiritual refuge, the Zion, of Rastafarians. A North American and European concert tour and live album, Babylon By Bus, followed, as did more trips to Africa. At a 1980 concert in Zimbabwe, Marley honored the country's independence ceremony by singing his single "Zimbabwe" to an ecstatic crowd.

It was partially due to his Rastafarian, with its attendant imagery of dreadlocked adherents toting "chillums" (pipes), thumb-thick spliffs of ganja, and mystical connections to African kings, that Marley was also regarded by many to be no less than a poet-seer and prophet, the self-proclaimed "duppy conqueror" of ever-strong legend.Messiah or not, Marley's music wasn't limited to message-laden tracts; he had a playful and soulful side, and his songs also addressed the universal themes of love, sexual yearning, and spirituality. In the early days, Marley's lyrics were accompanied by the choppy backbeat of ska, and later the 1960s rage, rock steady. Finally, he put his stamp on, and eventually claimed, reggae, a unique Jamaican sound that, without his titanic presence, might have become just another Caribbean backdrop sound, the elevator music of tourist resorts.




He later formed the Tuff Gong label, taken from a street name of his. At Greenwich Park Road the Marley family began to grow to a total of 11 acknowledged children, four with Rita. Today, the grown offspring have formed the popular Melody Makers band, which features Cedella, David ("Ziggy"), Sharon, Steven, and others.

Marley had injured his toe during a soccer game some years before. The wound, after some perfunctory treatment, had never healed properly. After the New York collapse, tissue around the toe was discovered to be cancerous, and further tests showed the disease had spread to his liver, lungs, and brain. He fought the cancer for several months, even submitting to a radical and experimental non-toxic treatment--which appealed to Marley's Rasta sensitivities--at the clinic of Dr. Josef Issels in Bavaria. Yet, even at that, the man and the mystic, the "duppy conqueror" of one of his most famous songs, was unable to conquer the invader within. He died in a Miami hospital, en route to Jamaica, on Monday, 11 May 1981. He had just been awarded Jamaica's third-highest civil honor, the Order of Merit. The funeral procession carrying him to a hillside mausoleum at his birthplace in Nine Miles, stretched more than 50 miles. Of course, gods or near-gods never die, to which millions of Bob Marley fans can attest. Marley's January 1994 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame capped his reputation, if not his career in absentia.

Marley, who died intestate, left approximately $30 million to his wife and 11 children, and his music continues to earn nearly $3 million per year. The successful Tuff Gong International has seen continued success, and is now headed by Marley's daughter Cedella. The Melody Makers, a Grammy award-winning group, continues to record and tour. Even Cedella Marley Booker, Bob Marley's mother, has cut an album of reggae-gospel tunes entitled Awake Zion. Few Jamaicans today would fail to recognize Marley's bouncing, wild dreadlocks, the piercing eyes, and the high-cheeked, gaunt visage. In 1995, the year Marley would have turned 50 years old, it became more ubiquitous as the Jamaican government issued anniversary commemorative stamps, as well as a mint coin, bearing the Marley profile. The annual February sixth Bob Marley Birthday Bash is now a national holiday, and the four-day party that surrounds it consists of performances by Jamaica's top reggae artists, including Ziggy Marley, the I-Threes, and Burning Spear. The event has been held at Nine Miles, St. Ann (Marley's birthplace), as well as the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston.

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ZEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!! They celebrated Bob Marley's Birthday this past weekend at Bob Marley's club in Orlando. They had Rita MArley last night and on Saturday night, Kevin Little and Spragga.

Sorry hots, I just found out. So we missed it.

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Mi miss him too. A one odda club me, Russel and JC was at past weekend, when Russel fren' seh a it a gwaan now still. Mi couldn't believe. A bear @#$% affa mi self and mi seh yu a go kill mi yah. Mi neva know. Sorry.

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