Marley, Bob (1945-1981), Jamaican singer, guitarist, and
             songwriter, a pioneer of Jamaican reggae music.
             Considered one of the greatest artists of the genre, he was
             the first Jamaican reggae performer to achieve significant
             Robert Nesta Marley was born on February,6 1945 in
             Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, but soon after
             Marley was born the family moved to Kingston and settled
             in Trench Town(so named because it was built over a ditch that drained the
             sewage of old Kingston). Barley into his teens Bob and his Mother came to
             Trench Town .His friends were other street youths, also impatient with their
             place in Jamaican society. Soon after getting together with his street friends
             Neville O'Riley he began to take his first hesitant musical steps .When he
             formed his first harmony group, the Rudeboys, in 1961. The group later became
             known as the Wailers. The Wailers included vocalists Bunny Livingston and
             Peter Tosh, both of whom later embarked on successful solo careers. The
             group's early recordings were in a style called ska, a hybrid of New Orleans
             rhythm and blues and Jamaican mento.. Mento was the first of the reggae
             styles. (The term reggae is commonly used as a collective designation for a
             number of successive forms of Jamaican pop music--ska, rock steady,
             poppa-top, and reggae.) By the late 1960s, influences from United States
             rhythm and blues, Jamaican folk rhythm. Bob Marley emerged as a rising talent
             in the Jamaican genre. In 1967 Bob Marley converted from Christianity to
             Rastafarianism, a religion that has had influence with reggae music. The Rastafarian
             movement of this period believed Haile Selassie I king of Ethiopia as the living god,
             praised the spiritual effects of marijuana and endorsed black racial superiority. Marley's
             music contains elements of spiritualism and mysticism. Some songs call for personal
             freedom through revolution, while others embr...