Tribute to Bob Marley: A long gone reggae legend

Born, Nesta Robert Marley on 6 February 1945 at Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica. He is a singer, song writer, guitarist and musician who also goes by other names such as Donald Marley and Tuff Gong.
As a family man, Marley was a father of eight (Sharon Marley Prendergast (adopted), Cedella Marley, David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley, Stephen Robert Nesta Marley, Rohan Anthony Marley, Julian Ricardo Marley, Ky-Mani Marley,Damian Robert Nesta Marley) but a husband of one (Alpharita Anderson Marley (m. 1966; his death 1981)) although was reported to have had affairs with different women.
He was born Catholic (1945–66), baptized Rastafarian (1966–80) and converted and baptized Ethiopian Orthodox Christian (1980–81).
A past Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga delivered the final funeral eulogy to Marley, declaring:
His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.
Dave Thompson wrote about Marley:
Bob Marley ranks among both the most popular and the most misunderstood figures in modern culture ... That the machine has utterly emasculated Marley is beyond doubt. Gone from the public record is the ghetto kid who dreamed of
Che Guevara and the Black Panthers, and pinned their posters up in the Wailers Soul Shack record store; who believed in freedom; and the fighting which it necessitated, and dressed the part on an early album sleeve; whose heroes were
James Brown and Muhammad Ali; whose God was Ras Tafari and whose sacrament was marijuana. Instead, the Bob Marley who surveys his kingdom today is smiling benevolence, a shining sun, a waving palm tree, and a string of hits which tumble out of polite radio like candy from a gumball machine. Of course it has assured his immortality. But it has also demeaned him beyond recognition. Bob Marley was worth far more.
He died on 11 May 1981 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami (now University of Miami Hospital) at the age of 36. The spread of
melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life."
To learn more about him visit bobmarley.com