41 years have passed since the death of Bob Marley, the Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist who wrote the history of reggae, spreading positive vibes of peace, love and humility around the world.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
41 years ago, on 11 May 1981, the great man left us BobMarley, become a legend of reggae Before dying from cancer, at the age of 36, he told his son Ziggy that money cannot buy life, and it is no coincidence that he spent his life against injustice and political and racial oppression. He did it through his music, a very powerful and above all peaceful instrument.
Bob Marley: biography and curiosities
Born in Jamaica with the name of Robert Nesta Marley to a white father of English descent and a Jamaican mother, abandoned by her husband while she was pregnant due to the pressure of his family not accepting their mixed relationship, at 15, living in poverty, he left school to work as a welder and at the age of 17 he became a Rasta, or a follower of rastafarianesimo.
It is a monotheistic religion born in the 900s, whose name derives from Ras (chief) and Tafari (terrible), as the emperor of Ethiopia who ascended the throne in 1930 was identified, recognized as Jesus Christ in his second coming. A movement that preached non-violence and rebellion to the Western white world considered oppressive.
It was in 1961 that her first single, Judge Not, was released, which was not very successful. So in 1964 Bob joined with Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh to form the band The Wailers with whom he will release his first album, Catch a Fire, in '73, gaining much more public acclaim. Later the band disbanded but he continued to play under the name "Bob Marley & the Wailers".
Slowly his reggae began to be exported elsewhere and westernized through a rock imprint and it was with the single "No Woman, No Cry" of '75, that Bob Marley distinguished himself on the international scene. Countless successes followed until, in '77, he noticed a wound in his right big toe, a malignant melanoma that he did not want to cure for religious reasons.
Despite this, he continued to play and have success everywhere, but in the meantime the cancer was taking over his body. Returning from Germany, he had to stop in Miami to be admitted to the Cedar of Lebanon Hospital, where he died on the morning of May 11, 1981. It was on that occasion that, before dying, he told Ziggy the famous phrase, “Money can 't buy life ".
The funeral took place in Jamaica and Bob was buried in a chapel erected near his birthplace.
Below is the video tribute dedicated to "Redemption song" that was dedicated to him to celebrate the 75th anniversary of his birth, in 2020:
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