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Relevant Classics: Bob Marley: His Death, MUSIC and Rastafari Movement

Relevant Classics: Bob Marley: His Death, MUSIC and Rastafari Movement

Bob Marley – Is This Love?

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Redemption Song

Bob Marley – Stir It Up

Today, May 11, 2011, is the 30 year anniversary of the death of Bob Marley, a Jamaican musician credited as a legend of Jamaican music and a spreader of the Rastafari movement, a religious “way of life” that is centered on the belief that Jamaica’s former emperor, Haile Selassie I, is the second reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Nesta Robert “Bob” Marley was born on February 6, 1945 and died of cancer on May 11, 1981 in Miami while switching planes to fly back to Jamaica. Marley was diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of malignant melanoma, and died eight months after his diagnosis. He is survived by at least 11 children from multiple women, including his wife.

Marley’s most well-known music hits were “I Shot the Sheriff”, “No Woman, No Cry”, “Could You Be Loved”, “Stir It Up”, “Jamming”, “Redemption Song”, and “One Love”. Much of his music reflected his religious beliefs and viewpoints.

Bob Marley – I Shot The Sheriff

Marley’s final words to his son Ziggy before his death were, “Money can’t buy life”. He was buried a week later in Jamaica with his red Gibson Les Paul guitar.

Bob Marley – Bad Boys

Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga delivered the final funeral eulogy to Marley: “His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.”

Bob Marley – Jamming

Bob Marley – One Love/People Get Ready

Today Bob Marley is a legend known for his music, though many are not familiar with his religious views. To put it simply, Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, which is movement stemming from Christianity in Jamaica.  Members of the movement worship Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, former Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974), as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Gangja Gun (Rare)

Marley was asked often about his religious beliefs. An interviewer once asked, “Can you tell the people what it means being a Rastafarian?”

Bob responded: “I would say to the people, Be still, and know that His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is the Almighty. Now, the Bible seh so, Babylon newspaper seh so, and I and I the children seh so. Yunno? So I don’t see how much more reveal our people want. Wha’ dem want? a white God, well God come black. True true.”

While his statement seems offensive, Marley swore during his lifetime that he was not prejudice at all: “I don’t have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.”

Bob Marley was also known for his religiously excused use of cannabis, or marijuana

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Buffalo Soldier

Lyrics Below

Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
There was a buffalo soldier in the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival

I mean it when I analyze the stench
To me it makes a lot of sense
How the dreadlock rasta was the buffalo soldier
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival

Said he was a buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
Buffalo soldier in the heart of America

If you know your history
Then you would know where you’re coming from
Then you wouldn’t have to ask me
Who the ‘eck do I think I am

I’m just a buffalo soldier in the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Said he was a buffalo soldier, win the war for America

Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/bob-marley-lyrics/buffalo-soldier-lyrics.html ]
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy
Buffalo soldier troddin’ through the land, wo-ho-ooh
Said he wanna ran and then you wanna hand
Troddin’ through the land, yea-hea, yea-ea

Said he was a buffalo soldier, win the war for America
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean

Singing, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy

Troddin’ through San Juan in the arms of America
Troddin’ through Jamaica, a buffalo soldier
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta

Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy

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