Bob Marley Day (Jamaica) - February 6

On February 6 it is the celebration of the birth of legendary singer-songwriter Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley), and this year he would have celebrated his 65th birthday. All around the globe there will be celebrations and music festivals to honor him and his legacy.

Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley, February 6, 1945. In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers", at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to "The Wailers".

In July 1977, Marley was found to have acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of malignant melanoma, in a wound reportedly picked up in a friendly football match. After the album Uprising was released in May 1980 the band completed a major tour of Europe, where they played their biggest ever concert, to a hundred thousand people in Milan. After the tour Marley went to America, where he performed two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of the Uprising Tour. Shortly afterwards his health deteriorated and he became very ill, the cancer had spread throughout his body.

Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981.

Source: Wikipedia.org

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