Bob Marley Accomplishments

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Bob Marley, not only was he one of the best artist around the world, but he changed and inspired people. He had an ever-lengthening list of accomplishments attributable to his music, he agitated for social change, while at the same time allowing listeners to forget their troubles and dance. Spreading “positive vibrations” from Sierra Leone to Manhattan. The Way Bob Marley inspired people was incredible, he managed to put people's hopes up and put a smile on each individual. Marley really had a way of connecting with people through his music and made his fans feel happy. Bob marley was a motivation to his listeners, to keep their head up and smile despite what they were going through. Marley made his advocates forget their problems …show more content…

He lived in a rural community of Nine Miles.(bob marley-the official site.) The last time bob Marley saw his father was when he was five years old; at that time norval (dad) took his son to Kingston to live with his nephew, a businessman, and to attend school. Eighteen months later, Cedella learned that Bob wasn’t going to school and was living with an elderly couple. Alarmed, she went to Kingston, found Bob, and brought him home to Nine Miles. Bob Marley lived in Trench Town, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.(bio.com). “He struggled in poverty, but he found inspiration and music around him. Trench Town had a number of successful, local performers, and was considered a motown of …show more content…

When Cedella (Bob’s mother) first heard of this from relatives and neighbours she took it as a joke. These palm readings invariably came true, which left his mother quite shaken. When Bob was a lot older and returned to Kingston, a woman asked him to read her palm - he replied: “I’m not reading no more hand: I’m singing now.”(clashmusic.com) On December 1962, Marley, left school at 14, and trained as a welder, it was then when he started concentrating on music. He recorded two singles, 'Judge Not (Unless you Judge Yourself)' and 'One Cup of Coffee' at a local studio by Leslie Kong, owner of the Beverley's label. In 1963, Marley also formed a vocal group in Trench Town with friends who would later be known as Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.(eb.com) Under the guidance of Joe Higgs, Marley worked on improving his singing abilities. A year later The Wailers first single, 'Simmer Down', reaches Number 1 in Jamaica's JBC Radio Chart. The group begin to release a series of singles that feature regularly in the Jamaican charts.(thirdfield.com). In 1973 Catch a Fire, the Wailers' Island debut, was the first of their albums released outside of Jamaica, and immediately earned worldwide acclaim. Both Livingston and Tosh quit the group to pursue solo