Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Bob Marley
Quotes
"I only have one ambition, you know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together- black, white, Chinese, everyone- that's all."
THE END!!!!!
Bob's Life
Bob Marley
- Birthname: Nesta Robert Marley
- Born on February 6, 1945 in Saint Ann Jamaica and died on May 11, 1981 in Miami Florida at the age of 36
- His father died when he was 10
- He married twice and had 3 children with his first wife Rita, 2 adopted children and seven with other various women
- Singer and song-writer for Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Member of Rastafari Movement
A talented musician who changed the face of South Africa and inspired milions
Bob Marley and The Wailers
- First popular reggae band
- Inspired musicians every where
- Formed charities for under priviledged children showing them music and teaching life lessons
Heroic Qualities
Peacemaker
Dedicated
Inspirational
Strong
Perseverance
Leader
Obstacles
Loving
- Didn't have a very good child hood
- No substantial home
- Parents divorced and dad left him and his mom alone at a young age
- Dad died when he was 10
- Very poor and didn't get much education
- Suffered through cancer
Why is he a hero?
"None but ourselves can free our minds"
- Battled through hard challenges by inspiring others with his music
- Revolutionary Man
- Started minor charities
- Lived a simple life of non violence
- Created peace
"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet"
"Love the life you live, live the life you love."
"One love, one heart, one destiny"
"Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing is gonna be alright."
"Live for yourself and you will live in vain, live for others and you will live again."
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."
"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain."
"Overcome the devils with a thing called love."
Awards and Legacy
- Third world's first music superstar
- The man who introduced the world to the mystic power of reggae
- In 1999 Time Magazine chose his bands album Exodus as the greatest album of the 20th century
- In 2001 he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Feature length documentary of his life
- Statue in honor of him next to the national stadium in Kingston
- In 2006 New York renamed a road after him called "Bob Marley Boulevard"
Rastafari Movement
- Key development of Reggae
- Took music from deprived areas of his country and spread them world wide
- Rastafarians believed in simple living
- Started a "vegetarian movement" which lessened poverty and famine in Jamaica