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i. Bob's male parent was a 50-twelvemonth-old white British naval captain named Norval Sinclair Marley. Bob's mom, a black country village girl named Cedella, was 19 when, in the minor Jamaican village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Bob was born at 2:30 in the morning on Feb. 6, 1945. Imagine how happy Cedella'southward father was to observe his daughter had been sleeping with an old white man named Norval. Imagine how thrilled Norval's family of racist colonialists was to learn the same thing.

Bob Marley's Parents

2. Norval instructed Cedella to proper name the baby male child that was hers (and, he made articulate, hers alone) Nesta Robert. So she did. "Robert" was the proper noun of Norval's blood brother.

Nesta Robert

iii. Nobody knows to whom or what "Nesta" referred. Whatever its significance, it was important enough for Norval to make sure that Cedella spelled it correct before he moved abroad.

4. As a fiddling child, Bob had a knack for deeply spooking people past successfully predicting their futures by reading their palms. At 7, having just returned to his rural village afterwards a year spent living in the ghettos of Kingston (Jamaica's capital), he declared that from then on he would cease to read palms. His new destiny, he said, was to become a singer. For the rest of his life, whenever someone who knew him back when asked him to read their palms, he resolutely refused.

bob marley early years

5. A Jamaican immigration official suggested to Bob's mom that "Nesta" sounded likewise much similar a girl's proper noun. So they switched his name to Robert Nesta Marley.

vi. "Tuff Gong," the proper noun of Bob's recording characterization, was a nickname Bob earned for himself in the Kingston ghetto of Trenchtown (so named because information technology was congenital over an erstwhile drainage trench) for being exactly the wrong guy to screw with. Ever.

7. Bob was a devout Rastafarian. Ras Tafari is the name of a man who was crowned King of Ethiopia in 1930. With that crown came the honorific name Haile Selassie. Rastafarians idea this "Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah" was the messiah, come to redeem the black human being. (Although true believers hold that all people are welcomed into the artillery of Jehovah—whom Rastas call "Jah.") Though doctrinally a legitimate sect of Orthodox Christianity, Rastafari tin be hard for non-Jamaicans to grasp. The ane matter everybody does become is that Rastafarians smoke dope and article of clothing dreadlocks (which put dread in the heart of the oppressors, see). Quondam Testament devotees, the Rastas fume because Psalm 104:fourteen says: "He causeth . . . herb [to be grown] for the service of man . . . ." Their hairstyle comes from Leviticus 21:v: "They shall non make baldness upon their head."

Rastafarian bob marley

8. Nobody really knows what the word "reggae" means, or how it originated.

ix. When Bob was twenty-one, he lived in Delaware for 7 months. During that time he worked the night shift at a Chrysler found (virtually which he wrote in his song, "Dark Shift"), drove a forklift in a manufacturing plant, and worked equally a lab banana for DuPont Chemical (!). When he was a kid, ane of Bob's regular chores was to hike 5 miles through rugged country to fetch firewood. Work was never a problem for Marley. He was famous for making his band rehearse hours and hours after whatsoever normal person would accept dropped exhausted to the floor.

bob marley Chrysler plant

10. Bob, who at twenty-one married a beautiful Trenchtown Sun schoolhouse teacher named Rita (and stayed married to her until his decease did they office), fathered an untold number of kids by an untold number of women. The general judge puts the number of Marley's progeny at around twenty. The way he could tell his children, he said, was past the mode each spoke out of the side of his or her mouth, the manner he did.

Bob Marley and his wife Rita Marley

11. Bob'south mother had a child by Bunny Wailer's dad when they were all living together in Trenchtown. That's how shut Bob and Bunny were.

12. Bunny Livingston (a.k.a. Bunny Wailer)'southward given name is Neville O'Riley Livingston. (One of the original members of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny was Bob's vivid percussionist, and a excellent redundancy and atomic number 82 vocalizer.)

Bunny Livingston

13. Peter Tosh's given name was Winston Hubert McIntosh. "The Toughest," as Tosh was known, was murdered in his habitation on Fri, September 11, 1987, by a 32-year-quondam hoodlum acquaintance of his named Leppo. (Tosh was a guitarist in The Wailers, and a very important reggae singer/songwriter in his ain right.)

xiv. The get-go tape Bob cut was called "Guess Not." On its label his name was misspelled as "Bob Morley." Working at the time in a tin can shack as a primary welder, Bob, 17, spent most of his pay in a rum-joint jukebox upward the street in which his song was a choice. He played his record so often that finally the owner of the place yanked the tape out of the jukebox and demanded that Bob leave, and never come back.,

fifteen. When Bob discovered that the reason he was nevertheless poor after existence so famous for then long was that his long-time manager and friend Don Taylor had been robbing him blind, Bob beat Don to within an inch of his life. Then he fired him.

sixteen. In July 1973, Bob and the Wailers opened a week of gigs for Bruce Springsteen. Subsequently that year, they joined a 17-city bout of Sly and the Family Rock's. Subsequently four shows, Sylvester Stone fired them for being too expert and hogging all the admiration.

17. For a long time Bob collection a BMW—which, every bit far as he was concerned, stood for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

18. Bob was a professional person level soccer player. Played a wicked game of ping-pong, too.

bob marley soccer

19. Bob once said: "America is pure deviltry, dem t'ings dat get on in that location. Dem just work with force and brutality. Dem lock out the punk thing because they see something happening. And so the oppressors bring another homo to blind the youth to the truth, and dem call him-John Tra-vol-ta."

20. Bob died of cancer (brain, liver, stomach, lungs) on May 11, 1981. He was thirty-half dozen years sometime. In one day, 40,000 people filed past his coffin every bit his trunk lay in land in Jamaica's National Arena. And that's just the number of people who got within.

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