Bob Marley Research Paper

Bob Marley
On February 6th 1945 in a little town called Nine Mile that was located in Jamaica was born a man who would change the world for the better (3). This man helped to bring together social classes, cultures and ethnicities. He was a role model to the end. He never cared much about money or earthly possessions; he just wanted to be rich with life and play music that could bring all the people of the world together. He was converted to being a Rastafarian in his teenage years which helped to mold his music and his way of living for the rest of his life.
Robert was born in 1945 when his mother a black woman who was Jamaican married a white English male when she was 18. Robert was their only son together. They lived in a very small town in the country side of Jamaica called Nine Miles. This was mostly a farming town and the children had to work a lot in the fields and with the animals (9). Since Robert had a white father he was not fully black so he was
He felt like Jamaica had betrayed him in a way and had to leave for a while to get over it. While in London Bob suffered what seemed to be toe injury that got infected and was never healed. He was advised to amputate it, but Bob would not do that because he was Rastafarian and as a Rastafarian he was supposed to exercise every day. But eventually he had half of his big toe off of his foot amputated. Then finally after two years of exile he returned to Jamaica to try and create peace by having another free concert for the people (3). Everyone was scared for him at this concert that he might be shot at again but nothing of that sort happened. Jamaica was ready for Bob Marley to return and they wouldn’t have done anything to ruin it again. During this concert Bob not expectantly called the two leaders of the warring parties onto the stage and forced them to shake hands in front of the people