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Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of the genre, he was renowned for his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. Marley increased the visibility of Jamaican music worldwide and became a global figure in popular culture. He became known as a Rastafarian icon, and he infused his music with a sense of spirituality. Marley is al…
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entertainment · Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981) · singer-songwriter · singer · guitarist · composer · also Bob Marley, Donald Marley, Nesta Robert Marley, Tuff Gong, Bab Maali, Rabat Nesta Maali
Born 6 February 1945 · Died 11 May 1981 · Q409
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“My husband had a special affinity with London. We truly look forward to seeing [the plaque] the next time we are in London. Jah bless you all. One love.”
“a lot of people assume Bob was black and are surprised to discover he had a white father”
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“If you want to get to know me, you will have to play football against me and the Wailers.”
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“When you smoke herb, herb reveal yourself to you. All the wickedness you do, the herb reveal itself to yourself, your conscience, show up yourself clear, because herb make you meditate. Is only a natural thing and it grow like a tree.”
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Published video ““We play music, you know. And we don’t play for suit critics.” 😏🏝️🇯🇲✌🏾”.
Published video “Ltd ed vinyl for the 50th 😃📀 get yours at shopmarley.com”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Want More (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Johnny Was (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Positive Vibration (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rat Race (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Crazy Baldhead (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Night Shift (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Cry To Me (Visualizer)”.
Published video “Bob Marley & The Wailers - Who The Cap Fit (Visualizer)”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “Movie stills authentically show actor Keanu Reeves will play reggae singer Bob Marley in a new movie.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “Movie stills authentically show actor Keanu Reeves will play reggae singer Bob Marley in a new movie.” Fake.
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Released album “Bob Marley & The Chineke! Orchestra”.
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Image of Haile Selassie and Bob Marley” FALSE.
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Snopes rated the claim “A viral Facebook post about "the perfect woman" repeated an authentic quote from Bob Marley.” Unproven.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Bob Marley sang Don't worry be Happy” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows Brad Pitt in costume as Bob Marley in preparation for an upcoming biopic.” Miscaptioned.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Brad Pitt in costume as Bob Marley in preparation for an upcoming biopic.” Miscaptioned.
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Africa Check rated the claim “CIA agent ‘Bill Oxley’ murdered Bob Marley with ‘cancer viruses’” False.
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Channel 4 rated the claim “The CIA assassinated Bob Marley” Fake news.
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Snopes rated the claim “A former CIA agent named "Bill Oxley" confessed on his death bed to killing Bob Marley.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A former CIA agent named "Bill Oxley" confessed on his death bed to killing Bob Marley.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “The body of a homeless man found behind a Jamaica fast food restaurant was identified as that of Bob Marley.” False.
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Released album “The King of Reggae”.
Released album “The First Ska Singles 1962”.
Ex-girlfriend and filmmaker Esther Anderson, along with Gian Godoy, made the documentary Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
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Released album “Mr Brown”.
Released album “Unreleased Acoustic Tapes”.
A statue of Marley was inaugurated in Banatski Sokolac, Serbia
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Released album “Bob Marley”.
The New York City Department of Education co-named a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn as "Bob Marley Boulevard"
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Released album “The Very Best of Bob Marley”.
In 2004, Rita alleged that Marley raped her in 1973.
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Released album “Original Jamaican Vibrations”.
Rita alleged that Marley raped her in 1973
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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Released album “Trench Town Box”.
Released album “A Portrait of Bob Marley: The Essential Collection”.
Released album “The Great Bob Marley”.
Released album “Best of the Early Years”.
Released album “3 CD Set”.
Released album “Trenchtown Roots”.
Released album “The Best of Bob Marley”.
Released album “Caution”.
Released album “Golden Hits”.
Released album “Soul Rebel”.
Released album “Interviews... (So Much Things to Say)”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994).
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Marley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Released album “Songs of Freedom”.
“As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney”
Released album “The Bob Marley Story”.
Released album “Kinky Reggae”.
Released album “Lively Up Yourself”.
Released album “More of Bob Marley at His Best”.
Released album “Stir It Up”.
Released album “Volume 1 - Soul Rebel”.
Released album “One Love”.
And became the best-selling reggae album of all time
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Contained unreleased material recorded during Marley's lifetime, including the hit "Buffalo Soldier" and new mixes of singles previously available only in Jamaica
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Awarded Order of Merit (1981).
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Died 1981-05-11.
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“And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes”
“Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned”
“Oggi, la gente combatte per trovare la realtà. Tutto è diventato così sintetico che un sacco di gente cerca solamente di aggrapparsi alla speranza.”
“Superior and another inferior”
“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”
“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.”
“Intervista di Giancarlo Zucchet, Prisma – Mensile di Riflessi Sonori – Numero 4 – Giugno 1981; riportato in Millerecords.it”
“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.”
“All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?”
“Until the philosophy which hold one race”
“Non abbiamo istruzione, solo ispirazione. Se fossi stato istruito sarei un dannato idiota.”
Makeda was born on 30 May 1981, after Marley's death, to Yvette Anderson, also known as Yvette Morris or Yvette Morris-Anderson and as Yvette Crichton after the surname of her husband.
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“Everywhere is war, me say war”
“Più accetti l'erba, più accetti Rastafari.”
“Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”
“Intervista di Marco Basso, 1980; riportato in Vinylanemusic.com”
“As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand”
“Bob Marley interview on Marijuana" (1979) from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite”
“Bob Marley interview on Marijuana”
“Wake Up and Live!” on Survival (1979)”
“Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)”
Marley returned to Jamaica and performed at another political concert, the One Love Peace Concert, again in an effort to calm warring parties
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“Crisis, from the album Kaya (1978)”
“Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube”
Recorded the video for the single, "Is This Love", from the Kaya album at the Keskidee centre, a Black-led theatre and arts centre in London
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“Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)”
“So Much Things to Say, from the album Exodus (1977)”
“Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)”
Marley was diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma; he died in May 1981, shortly after baptism into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
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“Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)”
“Etichetta: Island Records, 1976, prodotto da Bob Marley & The Wailers.”
“Intervista di Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, n. 219, 12 agosto 1976; riportato in Rollingstone.it”
“Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)”
Following the global popularity of Eric Clapton's version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff", Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, a live version of "No Woman, No Cry", from the Liv
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Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica with a live version of "No Woman, No Cry", from the Live
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“Revolution, from the album Natty Dread (1974)”
“Etichetta: Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1974, prodotto da Chris Blackwell e The Wailers.”
Stephanie Marley, born 17 August 1974 to Rita and Owen "Ital Tacky" Stewart, a former Jamaican football (soccer) player.
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“Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)”
With each of the three main members pursuing a solo career
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“Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin' (1973)”
“I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin' (1973)”
“Small Axe, from the album Burnin' (1973)”
“Get Up, Stand Up, Burnin' (1973), cowritten with Peter Tosh”
Bob Marley signed with CBS Records in London and embarked on a UK tour with soul singer Johnny Nash
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“Etichetta: Trojan Records, 1971, prodotto da Lee Perry.”
“Trenchtown Rock (single, 1970)”
Bob and Rita visited songwriter Jimmy Norman at his apartment in the Bronx
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After being caught with cannabis but continued to use marijuana in accordance with his religious beliefs
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Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant, and on the assembly line and as a fork
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Marley married Alfarita Constantia "Rita" Anderson in Kingston, Jamaica, on 10 February 1966.
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Released their debut studio album, The Wailing Wailers, which included the single "One Love", a reworking of "People Get Ready"
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“One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)”
Sharon, born 23 November 1964, daughter of Rita from a previous relationship, but then adopted by Marley after his marriage with Rita
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Various websites also listed Imani Carole, born 22 May 1963, to Cheryl Murray, but the Bob Marley website does not.
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After forming the group Teenagers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, which became the Wailers
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Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith were called the Teenagers
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Born 1945-02-06.
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