816 Bob Marley (1945-1981) and the Wailers “One Love” 1965

“The millenarian-messianic cult of Rastafarianism that Marley championed through his music draws some of its ideology from the teachings of back-to-Africa advocate Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Born on August 17, 1887, in the city of St. Ann’s Bay in the Jamaican parish of St. Ann, Garvey (nicknamed ‘Mose’) was one of eleven children sired by a once prosperous printer. He was descended from the Maroons, originally a band of fifteen hundred African slaves released by their Spanish masters in 1655, who fled to the impenetrable interior of Jamaica as Cromwell’s forces invaded the island. (Maroon is a corruption of the Spanish word cimarron, meaning unruly)” (Timothy White, Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, 1899). 

Bob Marley and the Wailers “One Love”