THEiconic smile, long hair and unmistakable and penetrating voice. Bob Marleyat the registry office Nesta Robert Marley, He would have turned 80 today, February 6th. His singer -songwriter career was crushed by one illness that took him away at only 36 years oldbut his music has never stopped vibrating the ropes of the soul of entire generations. His social commitment, the celebration of freedom in his texts, but above all the moving simplicity with which love sang They consecrated his art to eternity.
Bob Marley would be 80 years old
At the rhythm of his reggae, “Tuff Gong”, a nickname that he took inspired by the founder of the Rastafari movement, Leonard “The Gong” Howell sang love several times, becoming Music background of couples all over the world.
Just think of the melancholy of No woman, no cry, one of his most famous pieces ever, or to the hope and emotional involvement expressed in the text of Is This love?. It is not difficult to imagine that even in private life the King of the reggae was a Latin lover.
Marley’s private life: the women of his life
Despite his premature disappearance, Marley He had eleven children with seven different women. The first, and unique, which he married at the age of 21 and from which he never separated, was Rita Marley. Musician and singer too, the two shared the passion for reggae, but their marriage, as it is easy to imagine, was not without difficulty.
With the growing fame, Bob began to attend other women, including Cindy Breakspeareawarded the title of Miss World in 1976 e Anita BelnavisJamaican tennis champion. With both he had children, Damian “Jr. Gong ”Marley from the first and Ky-Mani Marley from the second and both of them work today in the world of music.
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