May 12, 2021
KINGSTON, JAMAICA (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 popularised on an international stage.
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Judy Mowatt (Photo by Arnold Photography Videography)
Reggae singer Judy Mowatt, a member of the original I Threes alongside Marcia Griffiths and Rita Marley, said that her most enduring memory of Bob Marley was that he was a man who possessed the courage of his convictions.
“He was willing to die for what he believed in, it wasn’t just lyrics and music, he believed in every word he said and he was willing to die for those beliefs,” Mowatt told
DancehallMag.
One of Mowatt’s most enduring memories of Marley was his onstage performance at the famous Harare concert 41 years ago on April 18 at the Rufaro Stadium in Harare (then called Salisbury), during the culmination of the official Independence Day ceremonies for the new nation-state of Zimbabwe.
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