Why Did Bob Marley The Failer

Bob Marley is one of the most influential artist in history and the tentacles of his influence touches every corner of the globe. For all the fame and power, he would receive through his music, he was born poor to a single mother on a third world colonial island. The island was Jamaica and Bob Marley spent the formative years of his youth with his mother and her mother’s family in rural region called Nine Miles. Marley’s maternal grandmother was the matriarch of the family and Marley would live and learn with his family until he and his mother moved to Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica when he was a teenager. During his formative years, Jamaica gained its independence from England and Marley saw that happen at a very impressionable time in his
Rastafari was the deified version of Haile Selassie, the exiled Ethiopian Emperor who had proudly and successfully led an African nation post European colonial rule. Newly independent Jamaicans saw him as a shining light of hope for their new nation. ‘The Wailers’ struck success at the dawn of the independence and the Rastafarian revolution and became the literal soundtrack of the movement. This is true so much that many Rastafarian followers today consider Marley a literal prophet and living apostle to Selassie. In “Redemption Song”, he begged his people to ‘emancipate themselves from mental slavery’. These were lyrics from an album entitles “Uprising” (1980), a clear nod to the revolutionary sentiments flaring at the time. In the newly found Jamaican Republic, Marley found himself supporting the People’s National Party (PNP). Rivals of the PNP say Marley and his globally popular music as a threat to their expansionist goals. Marley’s lyrics serving as political inspiration did not just effect