krtKyle Rougeau
Staff writer
kcr723@cabrini.edu
Bob Marley is a permanent staple for college students nationwide. Cabrini College is no exception as dorm room after dorm is equipped with at least one or more references to Marley whether it be a poster or full out shrine.
Bob Marley is popular, but is it for the right reasons? Initially when people mention his name it will reference something between marijuana and reggae music. This is all true but this is not all that he stands for and it is about time for people to understand the legacy behind the legend.
Robert Nesta Marley was born in a settlement know as Nine Miles, in the parish of St. Ann’s in northern Jamaica on Feb. 6, 1945.
Marley’s mother was 19-year-old Cadella Malcolm from Jamaica and his father in his 50s was Norval Marley, a white Jamaican and British navel officer.
As a teenager Marley lived in Trenchtown, a section of Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. There he met Bunny Livingston and Peter Mackintosh, who later on would form the group “The Wailers” along with Carlton Barrett, Al Anderson, Judith Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths and Rita Marley.
In 1965 the Wailers had five songs on the top-10 list in Jamaica but earned them little money.
Not too far from Cabrini Marley lived in Wilmington, Del. where he worked as a welder for a Chrysler car
