| No one comes close to how Bob Marley has | | | | produced songs like "I Shot the Sheriff" and "Get |
| touched the world with the vibrant jive of reggae | | | | Up, Stan Up." Even though he broke up with his |
| music. This is true, even to this day. | | | | band, he continued to record songs as "Bob |
| This dreadlock-sporting musician and singer from | | | | Marley and The Wailers." |
| Jamaica was born on February 6, 1945. Robert | | | | He was also famous for being a member of |
| Nesta Marley was born to Norval Sinclair Marley | | | | Rastafari and many people have adapted this |
| and Cedalla Booker. His father, who was away | | | | way of life through his influence. Rastafari are |
| most of the time, would usually just give financial | | | | monotheists who worship a supreme being called |
| support to him and his mother. His father died - | | | | Jah. According to its members, it is not a religion, |
| away from his wife and from Bob - when he was | | | | but an ideology - one which aims to find "faith |
| only 10 years old. The pain that he actually carried | | | | from within." Membership reached to around a |
| in his heart for a lifetime was the way people | | | | million, many of whom may have been heavily |
| mocked his being "a half and half," which he | | | | influenced by Bob Marley and the reggae music. |
| deeply felt as he grew. However, through his | | | | By the time of his death in 1984, his compilation |
| songs, he described the hardship a man of | | | | album has already sold around 20 million units |
| African-American descent faces in this kind of | | | | around the globe. His music and artistry is a |
| world. | | | | testimony to how deeply he left a mark in this |
| He did not finish schooling and joined a group of | | | | world, and how he gave honor to the Jamaican |
| friends to play music. From "The Teenagers," the | | | | flag. |
| group became "The Wailers" and this team up has | | | | |