Bob Marley (1945 to 1981)

1963 Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith were called teenagers. They later changed their name to Wailing Rudeboys, then Wailing Wailers, then discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally Wailers. Their single, Simmer Down, for Coxsone, was released in 1964. February. Became a Jamaican No. 1 and sold approximately 70,000 copies. The Wailers, now a regular recording at Studio One, found himself working with well-known Jamaican musicians such as Ernest Ranglin (arranger). It Hurts To Be Alone), keyboardist Jackie Mittoo and saxophonist Roland Alphonso. Until 1966. Braithwaite, Kelso and Smith left the Wailers, leaving the lead trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosho.

In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.

Though raised as a Catholic, Marley became interested in Rastafari beliefs in the 1960s, when away from his mother's influence. After returning to Jamaica, Marley formally converted to Rastafari and began to grow dreadlocks.

After a financial disagreement with Dodd, Marley and his band teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band, the Upsetters. Although the alliance lasted less than a year, they recorded what many consider the Wailers' finest work. Marley and Perry split after a dispute regarding the assignment of recording rights, but they would continue to work together.

In 1968 and 1972 Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny The Wailers in Kingstone and London cut back on some old tracks with JAD Records in an attempt to commercialize the sound of the Wailers. Zuikis later claimed that these songs "should never be released on an album ... they were just audition demonstrations by record companies." 1968 Bob and Rita visited songwriter Jimmy Norman at his apartment in the Bronx. Norman had written extended words for Kai Winding's "Time is on My Side" (covered in the Rolling Stones), as well as Johnny Nash and Jimi Hendrix. Jam's three-day session with Norman and others, including Norman's co-author Ali Pyfrom, allowed the 24-minute Marley film to perform several of his own and Norman-Pyfrom's compositions. The tape, according to Reggae archivist Roger Steffens, is rare because it was influenced by pop, not seemingly as part of an effort to break Marley into the US charts. According to an article in The New York Times, Marley experimented with different sounds on the band, adopting Splish for My Splash's "Do With wop" style, "Stay With Me" and "1960s artists' slow love song style." An artist not yet established outside his native Jamaica, Marley lived in Ridgmount Gardens, Bloomsbury, in 1972.

8:30 p.m., 1976 On December 3, two days before the Smile Jamaica concert, seven gunmen attacked Marley's home on Hope Road 56. Marley and his group were on a break from rehearsal. Marley's wife Rita was shot in the head in a driveway. Gunmen shot Marley in the chest and arm. His manager Don Taylor was shot in the legs and torso. Group employee Louis Griffiths also carried the bullet into his vest. Surprisingly, there were no casualties.

Bob Marley told concert president Trevor Philips that Jamaican Labor leader Edward Seaga, Manley's only opponent, had ordered his bodyguard, Leicester Jim Brown, to attend the order. Nancy Burke, Marley’s neighbor and friend, recalled hearing Wailers percussionist Alvin Patterson say, “Are Seaga men! Dem come fi kills Bob! ”After the shooting, numerous reports indicated that gunmen had returned to Tivoli Gardens, the JLP loyal district and the home of the famous Shower Posse.

After the shooting, the American Embassy sent a show titled "Reggae Star Shot: Motive Probably Political." In the cable, Ambassador Gerard wrote:

"Some see the event as an attempt by JLP armed to stop a concert featuring 'politically progressive' music by Marley and other stars in the region. Others see it as a deep plan to create a progressive, youthful Jamaican martyr," that the four people shot, three of them, including Marley, suffered only minor wounds

Marley left Jamaica in late 1976 and, after a month-long "recovery and writing" stay at Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, arrived in England, where he spent two years in exile.

While in England, he recorded the albums Exodus and Kaya. Exodus has been on the UK album charts for 56 weeks in a row. It featured four British hit singles: Exodus, Waiting in Vain, Jamming and One Love (which interpolates Curtis Mayfield's hit "People Get Ready"). During his time in London, he was arrested and convicted of possession of a small amount of cannabis. 1978 Marley returned to Jamaica and reappeared at another political concert, the One Love Peace concert, to appease the warring parties. At the end of the play, at Marley’s request, Michael Manley (then leader of the ruling People’s National Party) and his political rival Edward Seaga (leader of the opposing Jamaican Labor Party) joined the stage and shook hands.

Bob Marley and the Wailers have released 11 albums, four live albums and seven studio albums. Released in 1978. A double live album with 13 tracks, Babylon by Bus, was released and received critical acclaim. This album, and it was the last track "Jamming", frantically captured the intensity of Marley's live performances with the audience.

1977 In July, Marley was diagnosed with a type of malignant melanoma under the toenails. Contrary to city legends, this violation was not primarily caused by injuries at a football match that year, which was a symptom of pre-existing cancer. Before the biopsy was performed, he had to see two doctors who confirmed the deadliest skin cancer: acral lentiginal melanoma. Unlike other melanomas, most commonly on sun-exposed skin, acral lentiginal melanoma occurs in areas that are easy to miss, such as the soles of the feet or under the nails. Although it is the most common melanoma in people with dark skin, it is not widely recognized and was not mentioned in the most popular medical textbook at the time.

Marley refused his doctors ’advice to amputate his leg (which would have interfered with his performer’s career) based on his religious beliefs. Instead, the nail and nail bed were removed and a skin graft was taken from the thigh to cover the area. . Despite his illness, he continued touring in the 1980s. Planned a world tour.

The Uprising  album was released in 1980. In May. The band completed a huge tour of Europe, where the biggest concert of 100,000 people played in Milan, Italy. After the tour, Marley traveled to the United States, where he gave two performances in Madison Square Garden in New York as part of the uprising tour. He collapsed while running in Central Park and was taken to a hospital where the cancer was found to have spread to the brain, lungs and liver.

Marley's last concert took place two days later at the Stanley Theater (now The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. September 23

The only known photos in the exhibition were included in Kevin Macdonald's documentary Marley.

Soon after, Marley's health deteriorated as his cancer spread throughout his body. The rest of the tour was canceled and Marley turned to the Josef Isels Clinic in Bavaria, Germany, where he underwent an alternative cancer treatment called Issel’s treatment, based in part on avoiding certain foods, drinks and other substances. After eight months of failing to effectively treat advanced cancer, Marley boarded her home in Jamaica. During the flight, Marley's vital functions deteriorated. After landing in Miami, Florida, he was immediately taken to the cedar of a Lebanese hospital (later a University of Miami hospital) where he died in 1981 in an emergency. On May 11, at the age of 36, due to the spread of melanoma to the lungs and brain. His last words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy a life."

1981 May 21 Marley was awarded a state funeral in Jamaica that combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and the Rastafari tradition. He was buried in a chapel near his hometown with a guitar.