Bob Marley
1945 – 1981 Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist
Jamaican musician who carried reggae and Rastafari to a global audience and became a symbol of the music.
- Religion
- Rastafari
- Affiliations
- The Wailers, Island Records
Bob Marley rose from Trench Town in Kingston to become the figure most associated with reggae worldwide. With the Wailers and then under his own name, he blended reggae rhythms with songs about faith, poverty, resistance, and unity, shaped by his Rastafari beliefs. Albums and songs such as No Woman No Cry and Redemption Song spread the music far beyond Jamaica. He died of cancer at thirty-six, already an international icon.
In the timeline
- 1973 Bob Marley takes reggae worldwide the artist