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A Reggae King
Jamaica-born music legend Bob Marley was diagnosed with melanoma in 1977 and died in Miami on May 11 at just 36 years old.
Marley left behind a wife and eleven children as part of his legacy.
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Reggae legend Bob Marley died forty years ago today at just 36 years old.
The Jamaica-born music legend was diagnosed with melanoma and passed at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami on May 11.
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Bob Marley and the I-Threes perform at the One Love Peace Concert at the National Stadium, in 1978.
May 11, 1981 is a day forever etched into the consciousness of former I-Threes member Judy Mowatt. Forty years after reggae legend Bob Marley lost his battle to cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami (later University of Miami Hospital) at the age of 36, Mowatt recalls receiving the sad news via a telephone call as she sat on her veranda that Monday morning. I was not floored because of his illness which had gone on for so long (but) it was very painful. I was looking forward to seeing him again, even if not working with him, I was looking forward to seeing him again, then I realize that death is final. Bob was gone forever, she said.
Bob Marley
Reggae singer Judy Mowatt, a member of the original I Threes alongside Marcia Griffiths and Rita Marley, still has vivid memories of the final concert she ever did alongside Bob Marley and the Wailers, over 41 years ago.
“On the last tour, in 1980, we were in the US, Danny Sims was the manager, and the first concert was supposed to be Pittsburgh. We spent the night in New York and the next morning, Bob Marley was walking – Bob was a fanatic when it comes to exercising, he knows that he has to keep his body in physically peak conditions, vitamins and eating right – he was heavy on that. He and Allan Cole went to walk in the morning because everyone would drive up from Pittsburgh for the concert, and he collapsed in Central Park,” Mowatt reminisced.