Noticias ALEJANDRO Posted May 12, 2024 Posted May 12, 2024 In his musical career he had great recording successes, among which we can mention The Wailing Wailers (1965), Soul Rebelds (1970), Soul Revolution (1971), The Best of the Wailers (1971), Babylong by Bus (1978) and Legend (1984). Curiosities about Bob Marley 1. He suffered social rejection for being mulatto (son of a black mother and white father), so he was despised as a white man even though he identified as black. 2. As a child he could read people's hands and was almost always successful in predicting them, which did not please many. 3. The name "Tuff Gong" was not only the record label of Bob Marley & The Wailers, but it was his nickname for his physical strength, in reference to a volcanic stone or volcanic gong. 4. Bob is considered the spiritual representative of Rastafarianism, considered a religion, a sociocultural movement or a lifestyle order with principles and rules of coexistence, against impositions and injustices. 5. At the age of 21 he lived in Delaware (United States) for a short time, worked at the Chrysler factory and was an assistant in a laboratory. 6. The real title of the song I Shoot The Sheriff was I Shoot The Police, but he preferred not to place it that way to avoid retaliation. 7. Those who knew him say that Bob was a great soccer and ping-pong player. 8. The song No Woman, No Cry is used as a lullaby in various parts of the world. 9. He received the United Nations Peace Medal in 1978 for getting Prime Minister Michael Manley and his biggest opponent, Edward Seaga, to shake hands at one of his concerts. 10. Before he died, on May 11, 1981, in Miami (United States), after being diagnosed with cancer, according to some media, one of his phrases was "money cannot buy life." Click
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