Black Music 🎶 Month Artist …
Bob Marley (1945- 1981) was born in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica, to Norval Marley and Cedella Booker.
He started his career with the Wailers, a group he formed with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston in 1963. In February 1966 he married Rita Marley, and it was she who introduced him to Rastafarianism. By 1969 Bob, Tosh and Livingston had fully embraced Rastafarianism, which greatly influence Marley’s music in particular and on reggae music in general. The Wailers collaborated with Lee Scratch Perry, resulting in some of the Wailers’ finest tracks like “Soul Rebel”, “Duppy Conquerer”, “400 Years” and “Small Axe.” This collaboration ended bitterly when the Wailers found that Perry, thinking the records were his, sold them in England without their consent. However, this brought the Wailers’ music to the attention of Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records.
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