Bob Marley

A great man gone

February 6, 1945
May 11, 1981
 Who was Bob Marley?
A Jamaican reagge singer, songwriter, musician, rhythm guitarist

Became well known by his reggae song as No Woman No Cry, I

Shot the Sheriff, Could You Be Loved, Jamming and many others

The album Legend was the best selling reggae album in the world in
1984
 Robert ,Bob Nesta Marley

Childhood

Born as Nesta Robert Marley, on February,6 1945.

Birth Place was in a village of Nine Mile, Saint Ann Jamaica.

Bob Marley was mixed raced.

His father, Norval Sinclair was a White England-Jamaican whose family came
from Sussex, England and his mother, Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican.

Bob Marley was constantly made fun of because he was a mixed child and
because of his beliefs he self- identified as a Black African.
 Education

Bob Marley's only formal education was at the Stephaney All-Age School in
Nine Miles. He left school at the age of 14 and said: If I graduated all those
school, I would be a living idiot now.

After few changes he and his other 2 friends, Nevill and Peter, formed a music
band The Wailers in 1863
 The Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band created by Marley with

Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963.

 Religion
Bob Marley was once a member of the Rastafari movement
(development of reggae).

Marley was a vegetarian.

He was known as "Tribe of Joseph", because he was born in

February.

Bob Marley was baptized by the Archbishop of the Ethiopian

Orthodox Church in Kingston, Jamaica, on 4 November 1980.
 His family

Bob Marley had three with his wife Rita, two adopted from Rita's

previous relationships.

Others with different women. He had 11 children: 7 sons and 4

daughters
Bob Marley during his
favourite game
Diagnosis of Cancer
Marley injured his toe during the playing football in Paris

Doctors found the tumor

Marley refused the surgery

Rastafari believe that the body must be as one unit

He said: Rastafari refuses the amputation. I do not allow to take my

body to pieces. He regarded doctors as cheaters, crooks
 His death

He passed away when he was 36 years old on May 11, 1981 in Miami

Marley was buried near his birthplace in Jamaica

In the coffin, there were his red guitar Gibson, a football, a ganja bud,
his ring and the Bible

His final words to his son Ziggy were Money can't buy life
 Marleys
quotation:

If you laugh, the

whole world
will laugh with
you.
If you cry, you
will cry alone.
 Marleys music has remained popular many years after his death
He was the man who introduced the world to the mystic power of
reggae to the whole world
In 1999, Time magazine chose Bob Marley & The Wailers'
Exodus as the greatest album of the 20th century.
 Questions????
1. What impact did the religion have on Bob Marleys

life?

2. What was Bob Marleys ethnicity?

3. What age did Bob Marley stop attending school?

4. What were his health issues?

5. Who did he have his first 3 children with?

6. When did Bob Marley died?

7. At what age was Bob Marley when he died?

 Questions????
8. Where was Bob Marley born?

9. What was the name of Bob Marleys mother?

10. What was the name of Bob Marleys father?

11. What was the name of the group that Bob Marley

created?

12. Name two items that was placed in Bob Marley's coffin?

13. What was the name of Bob Marleys favorite game?

14. How many children did Bob have?

15. In what year did Bob Marley baptized?