Bob Marley

Bob Marley
Bob Marley was the undisputed messiah of Reggae music. With his lyrics of oppression and longing for freedom, combined with harmonious melodies, Bob Marley was popular with the mainstream rock music audiences as well as reggae. In the middle of his world wide tour in 1980 he collapsed onstage and was discovered to have cancer. He died at the “Cedars of Lebanon” hospital in Miami on May 11th of 1981 at the age of 36.