Bob Marley: His Life and Successful Career
By Maya Archer
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However, this brought the Wailers' music to the attention of Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records. Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital on May 11, 1981. He was 36 years old.
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The First Major Rock Artist to Come Out of a Third World Country
The first major rock artist to come out of a Third World country, Bob Marley did more than anyone else to popularize reggae around the globe. He was a gifted songwriter who could mix protest music and pop as skillfully as Bob Dylan, and his songs of determination, rebellion, and faith became important parts of the rock and pop canon. Thirty years after Marley's death, hits like No Woman No Cry
and Is This Love
sound as vibrant as ever.
Marley left his rural home for the slums of Kingston, Jamaica at age 14. When he was 17, Jimmy Cliff introduced him to Leslie Kong, who produced Marley's first single, Judge Not,
and several other obscure sides. In 1963, with the guidance of Jamaican pop veteran Joe Higgs, Marley formed the Wailers, a vocal quintet, with Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingstone, Junior Braithwaite, and Beverly Kelso. Their first single for producer Coxsone Dodd, Simmer Down,
was one of the biggest Jamaican hits of 1964, and the Wailers remained on Dodd's Studio One and Coxsone labels for three years, hitting with Love and Affection.
When Braithwaite and Kelso left the group around 1965, the Wailers continued as a trio, Marley, Tosh, and Livingstone trading leads. In spite of the popularity of singles like Rude Boy,
the artists received few or no royalties, and in 1966 they disbanded. Marley spent most of the following year working in a factory in Newark, Delaware (where his mother had moved in 1963). Upon his return