ARTS / MUSIC
Burning bright
By AFP Published: May 11, 2021 06:38 PM
On December 8, 2020, men walk past the wall of a closed bar in Rio de Janeiro with poster art of late Jamaican singer Bob Marley and former Brazilian soccer player Pele hugging each other. Photo: AFPIt'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.