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Jamaican singer and songwriter Bob Marley served as a world ambassador for reggae music and has sold more than 75 million records to date.

Bob Marley was half Black, half white, half rural, half Kingston—and fully Jamaican. Marley helped take reggae—a blend of ska, Jamaican urban pop, and American R & B—mainstream. In his short career, he was responsible for some of the most important reggae albums of all time. He was born Robert Nesta Marley in 1945 in the remote Jamaican hill country to a Black teenage mother and a white British army captain nearly four decades her senior. His parents marriage ended shortly after his birth. Marley and his mother moved to the poor Kingston neighborhood of Trench Town when he was a teen. He was studying to be a welder while nurturing his musical talent and expressing his outrage about life in Kingston through music. Marley started recording at age 16. At age 18 he formed the band the Wailers, named because, according to Marley, they started out crying. After landing a recording contract, in 1963 the band cut the track Simmer Down, a politically charged song about life in Kingston that was very different from the light and playful music Marley had become known for locally.

Bob Marley (born February 6, 1945, Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica—died May 11, 1981, Miami, Florida, U.S.) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter whose thoughtful ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical forms blossomed in the 1970s into an electrifying rock-influenced hybrid that made him an international superstar.

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