Bob Marley's Yard

About

Born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Father Norval was a white Jamaican plantation overseer. Mother Cedella was an eighteen-year-old Black Jamaican. He married her, then disappeared. I grew up in Trenchtown, Kingston -- the ghetto, the government yard. I formed The Wailers with Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. We played ska, rocksteady, then reggae. I brought reggae to the world. 'Get Up, Stand Up.' 'No Woman, No Cry.' 'Redemption Song.' Every song was a sermon. Rastafari was my faith, music was my weapon, Jamaica was my heart. They shot me in 1976 -- two days before a peace concert. I played anyway with the bullet still in my arm. Cancer took me at 36. But every beach bar, every protest march, every summer evening everywhere -- you hear the offbeat guitar and you know. Reggae doesn't die because resistance doesn't die.

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