Forty years on, Bob Marley’s rich legacy thrives
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 11, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – It’s been four decades since Bob Marley’s death, a period longer than the reggae icon’s brief but potent life that skin cancer ended when he was 36.
Yet Marley lives on as a voice of the dispossessed, the palpable vibrancy, spirit of protest and moral zeal of his songs including “One Love,” “Redemption Song” and “I Shot The Sheriff” enduring in a way few bodies of popular music have ever done.
His rich anthems of peace and struggle, hope and discontent, still reverberate globally and especially in his native Jamaica, a small nation whose rich culture its most famous son popularized on an international stage.
Marley s throne still empty
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Bob Marleyâs âLegendâ is the Second Album ever to spend 13 years on Billboard chart, 37 years after it was released
LEGEND: Reggae star Bob Marley on stage at the Hammersmith Odeon, London in June 1977
Bob Marleyâs
âLegendâ has made history by becoming the second album ever to spend 13 years on the Billboard 200.
The Reggae icon will now join Rock band, Pink Floyd, as the only artists to achieve this milestone or longer.
Pink Floydâs
âDark Side of the Moonâ has been on the chart for almost 1,000 weeks and Marleyâs compilation album has spent a record-breaking 676 weeks, which is equal to 13 years.
Nakkia Gold and Bob Marley
Photo Credits: Saban Music Group and Dennis Morris
“Get up, Stand Up” just got the remake treatment by American singer Nakkia Gold.
The militant anthem by Bob Marley and The Wailers was sampled by Gold for her latest single, “Justice (Get Up, Stand Up).” The track features Grammy and Golden Globe Award-nominated rapper Wiz Khalifa.
Gold commented that Black and minority communities in the United States continue to face inequality, systemic racism, and a long, painful history of violence.
“The struggle has made us strong. This is the moment to break through the chains of social injustice. This song is a call to action in a time when it’s needed the most,” she said.
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