Daniel+Polanco

[|bob marley 2.docx]

BOB MARLEY: THE LEGEND THAT NEVER DIED

Legends don’t come around very often, but during the twentieth century a legend was born whose legacy never died. Coming from the island of Jamaica, Bob Marley’s life is an epitome one that even today continues to have such a powerful significance not only to the Jamaican community, but for the entire world. Because he had a god giving talent for music, Bob Marley demonstrated that his country’s Reggae was not only a type of music that inspired many, it was a movement. When someone was to refer to a certain crisis, Bob Marley music will relate to it. Bob was a musical spiritualist. It is important to take into account the ancestry of this legend, to be the first superstar emerging from the Third World, Bob Marley was one of the most captivating and exigent performers of the twentieth century. During his music carrier, Bob Marley composed several songs that defined what he wanted to point out. His music was magic to many because Bob found the right combination to relate it to his people, because every song contained a relevant meaning. media type="youtube" key="nQlOLARxC_A" height="344" width="425"

Reggae is legitimately part of rock and roll. Bob Marley described it as “Reggae music, soul music, rock music - every song is a sign.”(Marley 1976). Marley’s own symbolism derivative from his beliefs as a Rastafarian, a cult that revered Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia as a god who would lead oppressed blacks back to an African homeland, to represent his believes Bob Marley had firsthand particulars of the deprivations of the Jamaican ghettos. His lyrics mixed religious holiness with calls for political uprising, and Marley delivered them in a passionate, declamatory voice. Notwithstanding of how anyone heard it, Bob Marley’s wrote political music that fitted for dancing his music was a powerful potion for those times of political troubled times. All of his music was power and inspiration for many, and even today, almost thirty years after his tragic death, his legacy and his music never died.