Jamaican musician Bob Marley, considered the "king of reggae, with more than 200 million albums sold worldwide, died on May 11, 1981 in Miami, exactly 30 years ago, what motivates tributes all over the world.
Zambia's Rastafarians gather in Lusaka to "celebrate life" of his idol, who has become the "voice of the disadvantaged" in the world. His music "continues to maintain a unit that goes beyond creeds, races, colors, borders and cultures," he told AFP Chengela Brian, director of Jah Entertainment.
will also be concerts, will be broadcast on radio or television programs, as the documentary "The Wailers: Catch a Fire", which shows behind the scenes recording of this album in 1972.
Thirty years after the death of Jamaican music, various musical currents "came from the 1950, as punk rock or remain," said sociologist and researcher at the University of Paris-Sorbonne Anne Petiau.
But Robert Nesta Marley continues to symbolize the protest, emancipation and freedom for many people of different ages, including young people, and discover music that they heard their parents or grandparents
star originally from a poor country.
For its part, the elderly "are listening to the music of his youth (...) goes back to the time," according Petiau.
Overall, the voice and the spirituality of Bob Marley - as part of Rastafarian culture and has had to introduce him on many occasions as the apostle of cannabis - have become in many disadvantaged various parts of the world.
This is, for example, in Africa, as we remember the musicians Alpha Blondy and Tiken Jah Fakoli, a continent where Bob Marley reggae forecast to return to his source of inspiration.
Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in Rhoden Hall, near Nine Miles in the parish of Saint Ann (Jamaica) Jamaican mother and English father (a naval officer that the musician did not know). He lived in the ghetto of Trenchtown, Kingston, and in 1962 she recorded her first song, "Judge Not", whereupon he founded the group "The Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
In 1966, he emigrated to the United States for economic reasons. There she met Mortimer Planner, a Cuban-born Jamaican, transmitted part of Rastafarian culture. After returning to Jamaica, in 1960, took his first album with The Wailers in the early 70's. "Catch a Fire" and "Burnin 'in 1973.
In 1974 he recorded his first solo album, "Natty Dread." Then came "Rastaman Vibration" in 1976 and "Exodus" in 1977. In 1977, Bob Marley gave to "The Wailers", a legendary big concert during which he played parts of the album you just recorded ("I Shot the Sheriff", "Lively Up Yourself," "Get Up, Stand Up," " Jamming "," No Woman No Cry, "" Exodus "and" War ").
almost to the final album ("Survival" in 1979, "Uprising" in 1980).
(With information from AFP)
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