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he was born
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Bob Marley life
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His family moved to Jamaica's capital Kingston
They lived in the alum area of his songs -
He met Bunny Livingstone and Peter Mcnitosh and they started playing music together as the Wailers
Marley listened to a lot of music by american soul singers like Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke and if you listen to the music hem ade later in life, you can still hear the melodic influence of these American singers -
He made his first recordat the age of 17
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The Walling Waliers ,as Marley's band was now called, had a Jamaican hit with the song "Simmer Down"
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Bob Marley married Rita Anderson, one of his backing singers
This was a time of great political activity in the States, and opposition to the Vietnam War. He had also grown his hair into dreadlocks ,a sing of his spiritual conversion to the Rastafarian religion. -
The Wailers went to London which had been the centre of youth culture in the 60s.But they found only diseppointment end soon returnerd to Jamaica.
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Chris Blckwlel, the white Englisman who owned island Records,risked 8.000Euros on the unknown band's a first album.It was an immediate success. It was also perfectly tmed for the Jamaican elections ,which the People's National Party candidate,Michael Man
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The Wailers tour of the United States was a disaster
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two days before the concert,gunmen shot into Marley's home injunng several people,but killing no one
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he had hit album in America
Rastaman Vibrations did not please all of his older fans because it appeared too soft -
Marley returned to Jamaica to give a free concert
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It locked like there was going to be civil war in Jamaica
Marley was seen as a Manley supporter and he was warned not to return to his homeland because his life would be in danger -
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