Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley Booker (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rock steady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley is the most widely know of reggae music. He help the Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement became popular to all the world.
His best know hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best selling album, going ten times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S.A., and selling 25 million copies in all the world.



Discography

 •The Wailing Wailers (1965)

•  The Best of The Wailers (1970)

•  Soul Rebels (1970)

• Soul Revolution (1971)

•  Catch a Fire (1973)

•  Burnin' (1973)

•  Natty Dread (1974)

•  Rastaman Vibration (1976)

•  Exodus (1977)

•  Kaya (1978)

•  Survival (1979)

•  Uprising (1980)

•  Confrontation (1983)

Awards and honors

• 1976: Band of the Year (Rolling Stone).

• June 1978: Awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations.

• February 1981: Awarded Jamaica's third highest honour, the Jamaican Order of Merit.

• March 1994: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• 1999: Album of the Century for Exodus by Time Magazine.

• February 2001: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

• February 2001: Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

• 2004: Rolling Stone ranked him No.11 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

"One Love" named song of the millennium by BBC.

Voted as one of the greatest lyricists of all time by a BBC poll.

•2006: A blue plaque was unveiled at his first UK residence in Ridgmount Gardens, London, dedicated to him by Nubian Jak community trust and supported by Her Majesty's Foreign Office.

•2010: "Catch a Fire" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Reggae Album).