Bob Marley Artistfacts

Bob Marley Classics Get The EDM Treatment

... globally, has been heralded as one of Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time and boasts a whopping 992 non-consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart. "To take on a project like this, you have to have the right state of mind and the right focus to understanding and respect what has been before. But this is just another form of expressing it," says Bob's son, Ziggy Marley, in the trailer. Check out the trailer and song stream. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com. Copyright Radio.com/CBS Local - Excerpted here with permission. Bob Marley Classics Get The EDM Treatment ... [ read more ]

Album Premiere: Bob Marley and the Wailers Get EDM Spin on 'Legend: Remixed'

... Ziggy, offers a sparse, simple remix of "Redemption Song" that carries a front-porch warmth. Other contributions include RAC's quick-stepping version of "Could You Be Loved," Thievery Corporation's cavernous, psyched-out take on "Get Up Stand Up," and Nickodemus and Zeb's slow-burning but bumping remix of "Jamming." RelatedBob Marley's 'Three Little Birds' Gets Remixed by Son - Song Premiere100 Greatest Artists: Bob MarleyQ&A;: Bob Marley Producer Chris Blackwell on the 40th Anniversary of 'Catch a Fire' Album Premiere: Bob Marley and the Wailers Get EDM Spin on 'Legend: Remixed' ... [ read more ]

Bob Marley and the Wailers Get EDM Spin on 'Legend: Remixed' - Album Premiere

... Related ContentView Photo Bob Marley and the Wailers Get EDM Spin on 'Legend: Remixed' - Album Premiere Talk about a sound clash: a cadre of some of EDM's biggest names have gathered to remix Bob Marley and the Wailers' classic 1984 album Legend in a new release, Legend: Remixed. Out June 25th on Tuff Gong/UMe, Legend: Remixed features reworkings of 15 of the album's original 16 cuts, all of which you can now check out in this exclusive album stream. 100 Greatest Artists: Bob Marley In many ways, the record was a family affair: Marley's son Stephen teamed up with DJ/producer Jason Bentley (who served ... [ read more ]

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Marley was very generous with his money. He bought houses and supported many of the poor in Jamaica.

His mother Cedella was a 17-year-old Jamaican native, his father Norval was a white British military officer in his 50s. Bob rarely saw his father.

He left school at 15 to become an apprentice to a welder.

Marley spent a month in prison in 1968 for marijuana possession. He identified with the prisoners he met and started writing more political songs.

Until Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, the radio stations played music for the white, upper class. Marley and other natives set up mobile sound systems to play the Reggae beats they were making.

Marley passed away from Melanoma cancer - a cancer which only affects white people. The cancer was located on his toe, under his toenail. He found out when he injured his toe during a soccer game in 1977, and the wound did not fully heal for nearly 3 years. His doctors were baffled as to how he could have Melanoma, but they came to the conclusion that since Bob Marley's father was a white Jamaican of English decent, Bob had the gene that made him susceptible to that form of cancer. Marley refused to have the toe amputated, as the Rastafarian religion forbids modification of the body. The cancer spread to his stomach, lungs and brain and killed him. (thanks, Rajina - sydney, Australia)

His nickname was "Tuff Gong." He set up a record label called Tuff Gong Records.

There is a Bob Marley museum on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica, where he once lived.

Lauryn Hill was married to Marley's son Rohan, who played football for the Miami Hurricanes. They have 3 children together.

Time magazine named Marley's Exodus album the best of the 20th century.

Jimmy Cliff helped Marley get his first record contract. Chris Blackwell of Island Records signed Bob Marley and the Wailers after Cliff, who was a famous reggae star, left the label.

His group The Wailers were kicked off a tour in 1973 because they were upstaging the headliners, Sly And The Family Stone.

Bob's oldest son, Ziggy, experienced early fame with the family act The Melody Makers, which also consisted of several other members of Marley's progeny. Damian Marley, the youngest of Bob's 13 children, is a half-brother to the rest of the Marleys, the product of Bob's former lover Cindy Breakspeare. It could be argued that Damian is the most successful of the many Marleys; he is the only reggae artist in history to ever win two Grammys on the same night. Stephen Marley is also an entertainer in his own right and for a short time he was part of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers along with sisters Cedella and Sharon Marley. Cedella is the child of Rita Marley with Bob while Sharon was Rita's daughter from another man and was subsequently adopted by Bob.

Even though he died in 1981, Marley still sells more albums each year than any other Reggae artist.

Bono inducted Marley into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Marley was a Rastafarian. As such, he was a vegetarian and believed that marijuana (ganga), is a sacred herb. Rastafarians do not cut their hair.

His name was actually Nesta Robert Marley, "Nesta" meaning messenger, as his mother Cedella had great visions of his birth and she believed he was blessed by God. His name was changed when he got a passport to travel to America to make money for the Wailers. The the worker taking his details said he should put his middle name down as Nesta because it would be seen as a girl's name in America. That is why he is called Bob Marley. (thanks, James - brightons, falkirk, Scotland)

Marley was employed as a waiter, assembly line worker, fork lift operator, and lab assistant before finally hitting it big.

Marley collapsed while jogging in 1980 in New York City's Central Park. He died eight months later from a combination of brain, lung, and liver cancer.

Two days before the Smile Jamaica Concert, a gunman went into Bob's house and shot him in the arm. Bob still performed at the concert to prove that a gun man would not scare him off.

Bob's first home was a one-room shack in the village of Nine Miles, St. Ann.

Marley married Rita Anderson on February 10, 1966. He had 4 children with Rita and another 8 with other women. Jamaican men were rarely monogamous. (thanks, Tony - Trenchtown, for above 3)

Bob Marley's home - Trenchtown - was so named because it was built on the sewers. (thanks, Matt - Perth, Australia)

In January 2008, the Jamaican National Archives reported that about 80% of the musical archives from the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation have been stolen, including many rare recordings from Marley, Peter Tosh and many other Reggae artists. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Marley didn't have a will, which resulted in numerous disputes over his estate since his death. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Amid the violence and political turmoil in Jamaica, Marley spoke out for peace and understanding, blaming much of the problem on economic injustice. Said Marley: "You have to share. I don't care if it sounds political or whatever it is, but people have to share."

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Damian is the son of Nesta and Cindy Blackspear one time Miss World she was the second Miss World from Jamacia