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    Bob Marley: His Life and Successful Career
    Bob Marley: His Life and Successful Career
    Bob Marley: His Life and Successful Career
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    Bob Marley: His Life and Successful Career

    By Maya Archer

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    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 Records. Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital on May 11, 1981. He was 36 years old.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateMay 31, 2014
    ISBN9781304924827
    Bob Marley: His Life and Successful Career

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      The First Major Rock Artist to Come Out of a Third World Country

      The first major rock artist to come out of a Third World country, Bob Marley did more than anyone else to popularize reggae around the globe. He was a gifted songwriter who could mix protest music and pop as skillfully as Bob Dylan, and his songs of determination, rebellion, and faith became important parts of the rock and pop canon. Thirty years after Marley's death, hits like No Woman No Cry and Is This Love sound as vibrant as ever.

      Marley left his rural home for the slums of Kingston, Jamaica at age 14. When he was 17, Jimmy Cliff introduced him to Leslie Kong, who produced Marley's first single, Judge Not, and several other obscure sides. In 1963, with the guidance of Jamaican pop veteran Joe Higgs, Marley formed the Wailers, a vocal quintet, with Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingstone, Junior Braithwaite, and Beverly Kelso. Their first single for producer Coxsone Dodd, Simmer Down, was one of the biggest Jamaican hits of 1964, and the Wailers remained on Dodd's Studio One and Coxsone labels for three years, hitting with Love and Affection.

      When Braithwaite and Kelso left the group around 1965, the Wailers continued as a trio, Marley, Tosh, and Livingstone trading leads. In spite of the popularity of singles like Rude Boy, the artists received few or no royalties, and in 1966 they disbanded. Marley spent most of the following year working in a factory in Newark, Delaware (where his mother had moved in 1963). Upon his return

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