Bob Marley was a musician, singer, and composer from Jamaica.

He was born on the 6th of February in 1945 and died on the 11th of May in 1981. Marley began his professional music career in the same year he was born in Nine Mile, Jamaica, in 1963.

At the time, he was a member of the Teenagers, a band he co-founded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer that would eventually be renamed the Wailers. 1965 marked the release of the group’s debut studio album, titled The Wailing Wailers. The album includes the smash “One Love” a modified version of “People Get Ready” The song gained worldwide popularity and helped establish the trio as a rising power in the reggae genre.

Bob Marley race: Is Bob Marley Black or white?

The majority of reggae fans are unaware that Marley was born to a white father, Captain Norval Marley, and a black mother, Cedella Booker. Bob Marley was raised with resentment toward his father, whom he believed had mistreated him and his mother. Marley was also somewhat ashamed of his white ancestry.

Bob Marley was reportedly neither black nor white. In 1975, Marley elucidated his racial views by remarking,

“My father was white and my mother black, you know. Them call me half-caste, or whatever. Well, 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, who give me this talent.”