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BOB MARLEY

BOB MARLEY

Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer-songwriter born in 1945 in a small village, Nine Mile. His mother was a black woman and his father was a white man: when he was young, Bob felt discriminated both by black and white people, because of his mixed origin. Finally, he self-identified as a black African and in his songs Marley sang about the fights of blacks and Africans against oppression.

Bob Marley sang Reggae music and he is the best known reggae singer: he made reggae music listened outside Jamaica. This music was brought into America from Ethiopian slaves.

At the end of the Fifties, Bob moved with his mother to Kingston where he became a member of the Rastafarian movement, a religion brought into Jamaica by the slaves.

In 1963 Bob Marley and other five reggae musicians formed a rock group called "The Wailers". Their first album was realised worldwide in 1973.

Marley’s best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Redemption Song", "One Love", some of them alone and some together with The Wailers.

In 1966 he married Rita Anderson.

In 1980 Bob fell seriously ill with cancer. In 11 May 1981, Bob Marley died in a hospital in Miami at the age of 36 years.

By GIULIA DUCH

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