Bob marley was born in 1945, in Nine Mile, Jamaica.
His real name was Robert Nesta Marley, although it is known as Bob marley for being a famous Jamaican musician.
His story begins with the regrettable abandonment of his father, who has never recognized him, and his mother, who moves with him in charge to Kingston, the capital.
Having to pass through numerous cities where poverty was rife, in Trenchtown, Bob he is exposed for the first time to bebop music and modern jazz, feeling it in his veins.
Although this has been his first musical influence, which he did not understand at the time, he has been able to anchor himself with the evening music sessions led by Joe Higgs.
To support himself and collaborate with his mother, he worked as a welder in Kingston, and there he formed his first musical group called “The Rudeboys”, which since 1963 would be called “The Wailing Wailers”, next to Neville o’riley Livingstone already Peter tosh.
In this same year they released their first album with réggaes that would reach the first position in the Jamaican music charts raising them to fame.
When 1966 arrived, Robert, already known artistically as Bob marley he meets the love of his life and gets married, the lucky one Rita Anderson, with whom together they begin to believe in the Rastafarian religion, and reflects it in their new songs.
Completed another cycle, Bob, with his friends Bunny Y Peter, they create a new group that they call “The Wailers”, and due to the spiritualism that emanated from their songs they have trouble finding representatives, but in the early 70’s, they allied with Lee Perry, a producer who revolutionizes his work.
Arriving in 1972 the group presents “Catch a Fire”, their first album, which generates great success and leads them to promote it with a tour of England and the United States.
The following year, it hits the market “Burnin”, a new album with new versions of their old songs, which is followed by the abandonment of Bunny Y Peter, who decide to pursue their solo careers, and are replaced by the new wife of Bob, Marcia griffiths, Y Judy Mowatt, forming “Bob Marley & The Wailers”.
In 1975 he presented with “Live!” in his hands, an album with some live songs, and the following year Marley presents “Rastaman Vibrations”, reaching the top of the charts and being considered the clearest exponent of the beliefs of Bob; and in this same year he offers a free concert as a vindication of peace and the rights of the citizens of his homeland, which is suspended since Marley he is attacked and wounded in the arm, also being the reason for his abandonment to Jamaica and his transfer to London.
There, Bob marley multiplies his tours of the United States, Europe and Africa, getting accepted and released soon after “Exodus”, called to be a best seller in England and which has been followed by “Kaya”, album that has songs of love and tribute to marijuana.
Later, when editing “Babylon By Bus” In 1978, he went to Africa, where he found inspiration for a new work in honor of the African homeland, which is followed in his career by “Uprising”, an album that he publishes at a difficult time in his native country, which in 1980 gave off an overwhelming success, motivating Bob to embark on a new European tour.
Although this tour destroys attendance records, it brings bad news at the end, and it is the arrival of an illness, Bob he was ill with cancer, originally caused by a toe injury from playing football in London.
When the year 1981 arrived, precisely on May 11, Bob marley dies in a Miami hospital at the age of 36, a month after receiving the “Order of Merit” from Jamaica for his contribution to Jamaican culture.
His body is transferred to his hometown, Nine Mile, where he rests in a mausoleum.