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The man behind 'No Woman No Cry' - Jamaica Gleaner


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The man behind 'No Woman No Cry'
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - Jan 5, 2009
MUSIC BUFFS have long agreed that Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry is one of pop music's enduring songs. Its simple tone and message put it right up there with ...
'No Woman No Cry' Songwriter Dead CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM
‘No woman no cry’ songwriter passes on Joy Online
Marley's classic 'songwriter' dies The Press Association
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'Marley' is cute, touching - Gaston Gazette


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'Marley' is cute, touching
Gaston Gazette, NC - Jan 2, 2009
Marley, named after the songster, Bob Marley is a yellow labrador originally named "clearance puppy" - the least expensive of the litter. ...
Bed Goes Up, Bed Goes Down > Macaroni, Marley, and Me CREATiVESPORTS
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About Bob Marley




Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM was a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter and Rastafarian. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers . Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.

Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend, released in 1984, three years after his death, is the best-selling reggae album ever , with sales of more than 12 million copies.

Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names. His father Norval Sinclair Marley was a white Scottish Jamaican. Norval was a Marine officer and captain, as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, a black Jamaican then eighteen years old. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 60. Marley suffered racial prejudice as a youth, because of his mixed racial origins and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:

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