Robert Nesta Marley, who goes by Bob Marley, was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica.
He is a Jamaican singer-songwriter whose painstaking ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical styles matured in the 1970s into an electric rock-influenced mix that earned him success on a global scale.
By the time he was in his early teens, Marley had moved back to West Kingston and was now residing in Trench Town, a pitifully impoverished neighbourhood frequently compared to an open sewer. In the early 1960s, Marley first encountered the jazz-influenced shuffle-beat rhythms of ska, a Jamaican combination of American rhythm and blues and native mento elements, while working alongside fellow wannabe musician Desmond Dekker to get a welding apprenticeship.
In 1961, Marley accepted producer Leslie Kong’s invitation to record with him and chose to record “Judge Not,” a jovial ballad he had composed based on country proverbs he had acquired from his granddad. Marley favoured artists like Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, and the Moonglows.
Why did Bob Marley name his son Ziggy?
David ultimately decided to use the moniker “Ziggy” instead of his original name, Ziggy, which was never very well-liked and is thought to have been given to him by his father Bob Marley.
