BOB MARLEY

BOB MARLEY

Robert Nesta Marley is Jamaican singer and songwriter.His maternal

grandfather was a prosperous farmer and bush doctor adept at the

mysticism-steeped herbal healing that got respect in Jamaica.He was shy

aloofness his big chance came in 1961 to record with producer Leslie

Kong.He formed a vocal group in Trench Town with friends who would

later be known as Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.They named them

Wailers.The Wailers did well in Jamaica during the mid-1960s with their

ska records.Peter Tosh was murderd in 1987.Eric Clapton's version of

the Wailers.

The most popular track of MarlE are:
“I Shot the Sheriff” in 1974
“No Woman No Cry”
“Exodus”
“Could You Be Loved”
“Coming in from the Cold”
“Jamming”
“Redemption Song”

His remarkable albums are:
Natty Dread in 1974
Live!Confrontation in 1983

In April 1981, the Jamaican government awarded Marley the Order of

Merit. After a month he died of cancer.Legend in 1984 became the

best-selling reggae album ever(12 millions+).