Bob Marley is Jamaica's Superstar reggae icon. He has made Reggae music popular throughout the world.Bob gave the world one the most brilliant and evocative type of music; his work spanned across nearly two decades and yet still remains timeless and universal. He and the Wailers worked their way into the very fabric of our lives.Now his music can be heard daily belting from musical instrument throughout the world.Christened with the name Robert Nesta Marley was born February 6, 1945, in rural St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica; the son of a middle-aged white father and teenage black mother. He left home at 14 to pursue a music career in Kingston, becoming a pupil of local singer and devout Rastafarian Joe Higgs. He cut his first single, "Judge Not," in 1962 for Leslie Kong. Marley married Rita Anderson, a singer in the group the Soulettes; she later became one of his vocal back up singer.After his death she set out on a mission to make him the Reggae Icon he really was ,turning his music into a billion dollar industry bringing his words to pass in the song No Woman No Cry: when I am gone every thing will gona be alright Marley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. His legend and popularity continued to grow even more after his death.Marley is dubbed as the king of reggae music.
