The Life of Bob Marley

There is much to be said about Robert Nesta Marley and his musical calling. As an accomplished musician in Jamaica, Nesta (as his mother preferred to call him), had moved from the country hills of St. Ann, to the ghettos of Kingston, to America to live with his mother, and then to 56 Hope road in Kingston. He played at the Zimbabwe independence concert “ending British rule in Africa”(White 113) and helped clothe half of Trench Town’s youth in soccer gear. Bob Marley was the first black musician from a third world county to become internationally known.
Early on February 6, 1945, a Tuesday at approximately 2:30 AM Robert Nesta Marley was “born with thin lips and a slender pointed nose he greatly resembled his white father Captain Norval Marley”(50). At four months old Nesta became very ill one day when his mother left him for 10 minuets to go to the store. When she came back he was “lying on his stomach quivering, water dripping from his nose, and was making shor...