Bob Marley Born: Reggae's Prophet Takes His First Breath
Bob Marley was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, to a white plantation manager and a Black teenage girl. He was mixed-race in a country where that made him an outsider twice over. He contracted melanoma under his toenail — discovered during a football game in 1977 — and refused amputation on religious grounds. By the time he agreed to treatment in 1980, the cancer had spread to his brain, lungs, and stomach. He died at 36, having sold more than 75 million records and having turned Rastafarianism from a Jamaican subculture into a global religion. His son Ziggy was 12 when he died. 'No Woman, No Cry' was written for someone else, but Marley claimed the credit to protect the songwriter from taxes.
February 6, 1945
81 years ago
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