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Robert Nesta Marley |
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Male |
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JM - Jamaica |
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February 6, 1945 |
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Rhoden Hall, Jamaica |
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May 11, 1981 |
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Miami, FL |
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Biography |
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Robert Nesta Marley born in Jamaica (February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981) to a black mother, Cedella Booker, and a white father, Norval Marley, was a singer, guitarist and songwriter from the ghettos of Jamaica. He was the husband of Rita Anderson Marley who had 4 of his 9 children, including David Ziggy Marley and Stephen Marley who continue their father's musical legacy in their band The Melody Makers.
Marley started in ska and gravitated towards reggae as the music evolved, playing, teaching and singing for a long period in the 1970s and 1980s. His reggae group "The Wailers", the backbone of which were two other celebrated reggae musicians, Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh. Much of his early work was produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One. In the early 70s he himself produced his best work with Lee Perry. He signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records label in 1971.
In 1976 Marley was shot inside his home. In 1977, Marley was found to have a form of skin cancer, malignant melanoma, which grew under his toenail. The cancer spread to his brain and his lungs. In the summer of 1980, he collapsed during a series of shows at Madison Square Garden. A month before his death, he was awarded Jamaica's Order of Merit. He passed away at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on May 11, 1981. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
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