BOB MARLEY

Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica, to
Norval Marley and Cedella Booker. His father was a
Jamaican of English descent. His mother was a black teenager. The couple planned
to get married but Norval left Kingston before this could happen. Norval died
in1955 seeing seeing his son only once.

Bob Marley started his career with the Wailers, a group he formed with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston
in 1963. Marley married Rita Marley in February 1966, 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 Reco