Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, alias Bob Marley, was born on 6 February 1945, in Saint Ann Parish of Jamaica.

Bob Marley's father Norval Sinclair Marley was 50 years old .

Cedella Booker,his mother was 18 years old.

When his father died Bob Marley was ten years old.

After his father died Bob Marley's family moved to trenchtown.

At 14 years old, Bob Marley began to make music with Livingston and Joe Higgs.

In 1963 Bob Marley, Bunny Livingstone and Peter Tosh and others formed a band. They initial name was ‘The Teenagers’ ,their final name was ‘The Wailers’.Their first single was Simmer down.

Bob Marley met Rita Anderson when he was coaching a group of singers. He married her in 1966.After,he moved with his mother in Wilmington in the u.s.a

Several months later the wailers's music became very famous.

With Island Records they have had an international succes. Their first album was Catch a Fire.
Their next album was Burnin.

Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the group in 1974.They pursue solo careers.

Bob Marley preached peace and love in the world, particulary in Jamaica's politics marked by agitation.

Before the concert"One Love", on 3 December 1976 gunmen broke into the Marley home and shot at the musician, his wife, and others.

He has received the United Nations Medal of Peace for the concert in New york on 22 April 1978.
Bob Marley died from cancer ( malignant melanoma ) on 11 May 1981, in Miami, Florida.