Robert Nesta Marley

He Born on 6 February 1945, in Nine Mile, north of Jamaica, the son of an African woman in Jamaica, 18 and Norval Marley, a British army captain, who disowned his son. In the late fifties, Robert moved with his mother to Kingston, the capital. It was the city where people from rural areas flocked to improve their economic situation. Like most rural families, their fate was the slums and miserable. Had great influence in the life of Bob Marley ,Rastafarian religion, a mixture of Biblical prophecy, naturist philosophy and black nationalism.

It was in this environment where she met Robert Neville O'Riley Livingstone (Bunny) and Peter McIntosh. Together they started playing, influenced by the music of Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Brook Benton. In 1963 he formed a group, 'Wailing Wailers', releasing a first single to reach number one in the Jamaican lists. Marley became one of the first to write songs about young offenders Kigston ghetto. In 1966, Bob Marley married Rita Anderson. With his friends Bunny and Peter, create a new group 'The Wailers'.

Because of the 'spirituality of his songs representatives had trouble finding the early seventies, joined forces with Lee Perry, a producer who revolutionized their work, resulting in some of his best works. In 1972, the group publishes its first album, 'Catch a Fire', which was very successful, prompting the label to make a tour of England and America. In 1973 came out his new album, 'Burnin', with new versions of their old. In 1975 Bunny and Peter left the band to pursue his solo career. I replaced the woman in the group of Bob, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt.

The group became known as, Bob Marley The Wailers. In 1976 he published ,Rastaman Vibrations. After a failed attempt to the, Bob Marley leave Jamaica and moved to Florida, multiplying their tours U.S., Europe and Africa. The following year he released the album Exodus. In 1978 he published Kaya, a new success with songs of love and homage to marijuana. Following the release of the album. Babylon By Bus, Bob visited Africa, a fact that inspired her new album, Survival,, a tribute to the African homeland.

In 1980 he published, Uprising, the end of his last European tour, Bob became seriously ill with cancer, caused by an injury that was done some years earlier.

On May 11, 1981 Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36. His body was returned to his hometown of Nine Mile, where he lies in a mausoleum. His funeral was attended by the prime minister and senior figures in his country.