BOB MARLEY - LEGEND

Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in the rural parish of Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica.

He was a singer, songwriter, and musician who infused his music with a sense of  love, history, and spirituality.

Nesta, as he was called as a child, was the son of Cedella "Ciddy" Booker, a nineteen year old Black woman, and Captain Norval Sinclair Marley, an older White man who had been a captain in the British army.

After several years of bouncing around between the homes of several relatives, where he always seemed to be in some kind of trouble.  The ten year old Nesta was sent to Kingston, where he lived in the Trench Town section with his mother, who had earlier moved to Kingston in order to earn a living. Here he roamed the oppressive streets of Trench Town where he became known as Tuff Gong.

To keep her son from turning to a life of crime, Ciddy enrolled Nesta in the Model Private School near Hanover Street, but Marley did not take to education, and by the time he was 14, he left school.

Nesta's real love was music. He started hanging out at record stores, listening to the latest hits, and also hanging around Third Street at the house of musician Joe Higgs. It was here that he learned to sing and play various instruments.

Marley viewed music not only as something that was fun and would get attention, but also as a way of getting him out of the dead-end existence of the ghetto.

It was here that he put away his childhood names to become known as Bob Marley. 

 Bob Marley died in 1981 but his legend has soared beyond the shores of the island of Jamaica to circle the world.

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