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Reggae and Rastafarian Timeline
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Reggae and Rastafarian Timeline
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Smile Jamaica
Land Offerings to Rastafarians
Rastafari Religion is Founded
- Ras Tafari Makonnen (a prince) became emperor of Ethiopia in the 1930s.
- As emperor the people began to call him Haile Selassie.
- The Rastafarian religion, was named after his given name (Ras Tafari).
- Haile Selassie met with Rasta elders in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in the 1950s.
- In 1955, he offered 500 acres of his personal land to black people wishing to return to Africa.
- The “Smile Jamaica” concert took place on December 5, 1976 at the National Heroes Park, in Kingston, Jamaica, performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers.
- Only 2 days before Marley had almost been killed by gunmen in his house, but survived and was driven up in the Blue Mountains.
- Nevertheless Marley agreed to perform one song for the 80,000 people in attendance, but it turned into a whole 90-minute performance despite his injuries.
- Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican Reggae band and ska vocalist group
- Discovered and created by Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingston), and Peter Tosh.
- By the end of the 1963 the singers Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso, and Cherry Smith.
- When 1964 finally rolled around Bob Marley and the Wailers had themselves a full band.
- They toured London, the United States, Switzerland, Gabon, Jamaica, Bahamas, Caribbean, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Sweden, the Ivory Coast, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Belgium,
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Bob Marley Born
Bob and Rita's Rastafarian Connections
Haile Selassie Dies
- Birth Date: February 6, 1945,
- Location: Nine Mile (a villiage in Saint Ann Parish), Jamaica
- Parents: Cedella Booker and Norvil Marley
- Emperor Selassie was said to have died from respiratory insufficiency on August 27th, 1975, in Addis Adaba.
- But it's been said that he was taken by members of the Ethiopian military (after he was overthrown) and kept in a bunker for days, until eventually assassinated by them.
- This is the theory many Rastafarians believe.
- Haile Selassie visits Jamaica, and the same day he arrived a heavy drought ended.
- It's said that as soon as Rita saw him, she converted to Rastafari.
- Bob Marley discovered greater interest in the Rastafarian religion because of Rita and the time in spent in Kingston, Jamaica.
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