A bit about Bob Marley.

His name isn’t actually Bob Marley, its Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley. Robert Marley was born on 6 February 1945 and died 11 May 1981. Robert remains the most known reggae singer / performer of reggae music. He is credited with spreading Rastafarian and reggae music throughout the world. He was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica. His father (Norval Sinclair Marley) was of white descent and his mother (Cedella Booker) was an afro-Jamaican (citizens of Jamaica whose ancestry lies in the continent of Africa) they married when Cedella was only 18 years old, Norval was about 60. Norval died at age 70 when Robert was only 10 of a heart attack. He left school at age 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. ‘In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong’. In Robert married Rita Anderson in1966, they moved close to where his mother lived in Wilmington, Delaware in the US for a short amount of time.