Bob+Marley

As you research your selected guitarist, you will need to note some specific information from his or her life and career. Include the following in your final writing: Details for your written assignment: ,
 * Introduction
 * Biography
 * Discography
 * Legacy
 * Conclusion

Your Name: (first name, last initial): Collin O'Connor

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Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945 and died on may 11, 1981. He was diagnosed with lung cancer and died at the age of 36. He lived in a town called Trenchtown.  Marley was born in the Jamaican mountain village of Nine Mile. His parents were Norman Marley and Cedellar Booker. His parents got divorced when Bob Marley was a child and in 1957 his mother moved with him to Trenchtown, an impoverished suburb of Kingston. The political repression and economic hardship that residents of Trenchtown experienced helped to inspire Marley's lyrics about the power of ordinary people standing up for their rights. Which is on of the definitions of raggae, Rastafarian music styles Bob Marley plays.

Bob Marley was an inspiration to the whole world and Marley's influence on music was monumental. Reggae captured the emerging, youthful, rebellious, and confident pulse of the Third World, but its infectious beat also captured the attention of youth in the United States and Europe. The dreadlocks Marley wore also became popular with young people in many countries, standing as a cultural symbol of defiance. But Marley's legacy went far beyond his music to include his spiritual and political crusades, which were always interwoven into his songs. The cultural and political aspects of Rastafarianism defined it as a potential threat to the Establishment. These included a belief in black racial superiority, radical nonviolent action, and an endorsement of the spiritual uplifting. These threads fit in perfectly with the cultural rebellion of the 1970s, and Marley's songs expressed his commitment to political and social revolution. He became a prophet to downtrodden peoples worldwide, singing of freedom and justice, of fighting for rights and dignity. = = As a teenager in Trenchtown Marley had a lot of time by himself, and he spent most of that time teaching himself how to play the guitar. He would constantly play by himself playing the guitar. Marley say that his inspiration to play guitar came from Marcus Garvey. Marley didn't hear a lot of american famous guitarists like Elvis presley that much, but he would occasionally hear them on the radio. Bob Marley, towards the end of his teenage years, would be apart of the wailing whailers who would later record some of the biggest raggae songs that would attract the attention of the youth, these songs were "No Women, No cries" and "Three Little Birds"

Bob Marley got a foot injury one day, not so far away from his death, when he was playing soccer on his European tour. He would end up needing it amputated. Bob Marley declined the amputation and he would live out the rest of his life with a dead foot. Bob Marley would, however, still play music all over the world, and he was determined to keep on fighting. A year later, after the foot injury, Marley was diagnosed with lung cancer and he died shortly after. And e ven though Bob Marley died in person, his message in his songs did not. Marley's stardom would sky-rocket after his death and his popularity would grow tremendously over the years after his death. Marley's songs would be an inspiration to so many people at the time after he died and that is one of the reasons he became so popular after he died because a lot more people in the next generation understood his message and could connect with him. Since Marley became one of the most widely known artists after death he would later be inducted in the rock and roll hall of fame and be an important figure their. Bob Marley will always be remembered as the most outgoing, spiritual guitarist the world has ever known.

====Some of the most interesting facts about Bob Marley's life and legacy are that Bob Marley didn't do music to get money, he did it to teach people the morals and values of life that he strongly believed in. I found this to be one of the most interesting facts about him because it really shows you the true characteristics of Bob Marley. Another really interesting fact i found out was that Bob Marley didn't want his toe amputated because it would be against on of his morals. Even though i don't know which moral that is i still find it really cool.====

Works Cited

Sources : Include the source information for all of the articles or web sites that were used to complete your project. Source information is found at the end of each article in iCONN.They should also be listed in alphabetical order by the first word of the source citation. sample: "Carol Kaye." //Contemporary Musicians//. Vol. 22. Detroit: Gale, 1998. //Gale Biography In Context//. Web. 8 Jan. 2012. "Selected Websites on Carol Kaye's Life and Works." //Gale Biography in Context//. Detroit: Gale, 2008. //Gale Biography In Context//. Web. 8 Jan. 2012.


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Guitarist Research Notes Table
//cells will expand as you enter your findings// || Their next single, "Simmer Down," was released on Christmas Day 1963 and rose quickly to the top of the charts in Jamaica(first hit) || What do you like about his/her style? || People who believe in his morals and like playing raggae. I like that he made up his own style and he preached about freedom and love in his songs. ||
 * ** Information Feature ** ||= **Your Findings**
 * The guitar style I am researching is: || Bob Marley ||
 * The artist I am researching is: || Robert Nesta Marley ||
 * This guitarist lived from __to__ ___ || February 6, 1945 to may 11, 1981 ||
 * Define and describe the guitar style you are researching. || Bob Marley's style was his own version of raggae that had ska, rock and roll, and other musical forms ||
 * What kind of musical training did the guitarist have? || he was self taught ||
 * What types of music influenced this artist? || The political repression and economic hardship that residents of Trenchtown experienced helped to inspire Marley's lyrics about the power of ordinary people standing up for their rights. ||
 * Name some musicians who influenced the guitarist you are researching. || no one influenced bob marley to play the guitar but the political repression and economic hardship that residents of Trenchtown experienced helped to inspire Marley's lyrics about the power of ordinary people standing up for their rights. ||
 * Has this guitarist played more than one style? If so, what other styles? || no all of bob marley's songs were raggae music styles' ||
 * What type of guitar does this musician play? || he played with many different types of guitars but the one he is most commonly seen playing with is the Gibson Les Paul ||
 * What are some interesting facts about your guitarist’s childhood? || Marley was born Robert Nesta Marley on February 6, 1945, in the Jamaican mountain village of Nine Mile, the child of a white British naval officer, Norman Marley, and a Jamaican woman, Cedellar Booker. His parents divorced when he was young, and in 1957 his mother moved with him to Trenchtown, an impoverished suburb of Kingston. Trenchtown was a housing project built after a 1951 hurricane had destroyed the area's squatter camps. The Rastafari religion combined with radical politics to foment a protest milieu in the ghetto, but those sentiments were unfocused and unorganized. The political repression and economic hardship that residents of Trenchtown experienced helped to inspire Marley's lyrics about the power of ordinary people standing up for their rights. ||
 * What did this guitarist do before he became famous? || As a teenager in Trenchtown, Marley soon became friends with Peter Mcintosh, who as Peter Tosh later would inherit Marley's mantle of reggae superstar, and Neville Livingstone, whose stage name would be Bunny Wailer. They formed a band in 1963, a year after Marley auditioned solo for local Chinese-Jamaican businessman Lesley Kong and Kong produced a record, "Judge Not," on his Beverley label. During the same audition session Marley recorded two other numbers, "Terror" and "One Cup of Coffee," released with the name Bobby Martell, a pseudonym Kong had foisted on sixteen-year-old Marley. All three songs were recorded with a background beat of joyful, thumping ska--the latest popular music in Jamaica. ||
 * List two interesting facts about the guitarist’s life. || Bob Marley lived in the ghetto and his albums didn't really sell that much until after his death ||
 * List two albums or songs your artist released, the dates they were released and why they are important. || Record producer Clement Dodd took the group under his wing after it split with Kong. The band originally recorded two songs at Dodd's studio in 1963, "I'm Still Waiting"(this was bob marley's first song recorded)
 * Who is playing this style of music today?
 * What legacy has this guitarist left to the world of music? || Marley's influence on music was monumental. Reggae captured the emerging, youthful, rebellious, and confident pulse of the Third World, but its infectious beat also captured the attention of youth in the United States and Europe. The dreadlocks Marley wore also became popular with young people in many countries, standing as a cultural symbol of defiance. But Marley's legacy went far beyond his music to include his spiritual and political crusades, which were always interwoven into his songs. The cultural and political aspects of Rastafarianism defined it as a potential threat to the Establishment. These included a belief in black racial superiority, radical nonviolent action, and an endorsement of the spiritual uplifting that could allegedly be attained by smoking marijuana. These threads fit in perfectly with the cultural rebellion of the 1970s, and Marley's songs expressed his commitment to political and social revolution. He became a prophet to downtrodden peoples worldwide, singing of freedom and justice, of fighting for rights and dignity. ||