BIOGRAPHY:
Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in Saint Ann (Jamaica)
from a mother jamaïcaine and an English father captain
in the navy which he never knew. It grows in the poor medium
of the ghetto of Trenchtown with Kingston where it makes the
meeting of another young person attracted by the music. In 1961,
it records its first title which does not meet any success but
Bob continuous to be invested in the music. In 1964, it melts
with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, the group which will be known
later under the name of "The Wailers". The group signs
a contract with a house of production and starts to produce
interesting pieces, but Bob, in search of spirituality breaks
the dash of the group in 1966 while marrying then while leaving
to work in the United States where it follows courses of theology.
In 1968, feeling finally ready, it makes its return to the country
and starts to be made a name in particular thanks to its texts
engaged on topics like peace, the unit, social justice, poverty,
the history of the African people, etc.
The group signs with
the Island label and leaves its first albums at the beginning
the Seventies. Quickly, Bob the principal type-setter of the
group is pointed out and in 1974 it records its first album
solo "Natty Dread" and even if the small pocket of
the album always mentions Wailers, force is to recognize that
the formation with enormously changed with in particular the
departure of Tosh and Wailer. Success is once more with go and
as from this Bob moment will not record any more but in solo.
The album are connected ("Rastaman Vibration", "Exodus",
"Kaya", etc.) and success is not lunatic. But in 1978,
Bob Marley learns that it is reached of a cancer. It will trail
its disease during three years without too much being concerned
with it and continuous to occur in concerts and to record titles
which compose its the last two albums "Survival" and
"Uprising". On this last of the titles like "Forever
Loving Jah" and "Redemption Song" constitute
songs of good-bye of Bob to its public. It is on May 11 1981
which Bob Marley dies out in Miami, but its history does not
stop with its death, because its œuvre is always of topicality
and Bob Marley is always today carries it flag of the reggae.