King of reggae
Nesta Robert Marley was born Feb. 6, 1945 and died of cancer May 11, 1981.
Over those 36 years he emerged from crushing poverty in Jamaica to become one of the biggest musical and cultural icons of our time.
In Bob Marley: A Life, veteran UK and Canadian journalist Garry Steckles traces Marley’s roots from early childhood in the heart of rural Jamaica, through his adolescence on the hardscrabble streets of Kingston, to his incredible journey to becoming the Third World’s first superstar.