Bob Marley performed at the Smile Jamaica Concert two days after being shot, showing his commitment to peace and making one of the most powerful statements of his career. Marley’s 1977 album “Exodus” ...

Bob Marley became an icon for popularizing reggae music worldwide. Marley passed away in 1981 at the age of 36, leaving at least 11 children behind. Many of his children and grandchildren have ...

Kingston, Jamaica, paid tribute to its most famous son this weekend, celebrating what would have been the 70th birthday of Bob Marley with a series of live events that featured the singer’s sons, ...

Some of Bob Marley’s children have followed in his musical footsteps Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well ...

For 15 minutes or so, Bob Marley: One Love promises to be an antidote to the usual cookie-cutter music biopic, the kind skewered by the 2007 spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Riffing back then on ...

Trisha Gopal contributed to a previous version of this article. Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley was born February 6, 1945 in the village of Nine Mile to Cedella Malcolm, a 19-year-old Black Jamaican ...

When David Meerman Scott snuck down from the Stanley Theatre balcony to snap photos of Bob Marley’s performance 40 years ago, he was just happy to be closer to the music. “I was never rich or ...

Bob Marley performs at Ahoy Hall in Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 7, 1978. Today, the Dutch city’s version of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum features a figure of Marley. Bob Marley performs at Ahoy Hall ...