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Although many Jamaican reggae bands and singers have become known in the past 30 years, the one true superstar of the genre remains Bob Marley and the Wailers. Though dead for 17 years, Robert Nesta Marley (1945-81) remains a star through his son and the music he made during his 20 year career. Marley was one of the very few reggae artists who made the music a globally appreciated sound. His son Ziggy continues the Marley tradition in tours in America, Great Britain, Africa and elsewhere. One other reason the Marley name is still in print is that after 17 years, his estate, said to be worth millions, is still being fought over. Marley and the Wailers were formed in 1963 when Bob, Bunny Wailer (Neville O'Riley), Peter Tosh (Winston Hubert McIntosh), Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith began recording for Coxsone Dodd. Marley had already made two records by this time, recording a pair of singles for Leslie Kong in 1962. The Wailers' first disc shot to No. 1 on the Jamaican radio charts, selling some 80,000 records. Between 1963-66, the group made more than 70 tracks for Dodd, 20 of them hits in a variety of styles. All of this was, of course, leading up to the rock-steady beat and the eventual bass-controlled music that evolved into what we now know as reggae. At the age of 21, Marley married Rita Anderson, a singer with the Soulettes who was to become a soloist herself. After the wedding, he moved to Delaware (USA) to visit his mother. However, he returned to Jamaica later that year as the Wailers became a vocal trio. Recording continued with the Wailers and Marley now writing songs about the Rasta scene and by 1970 the group was able to release a "best of" album even though the wider success they wanted still eluded them. Marley spent the summer of 1969 working in Wilmington, Delaware at a Chrysler factory but returned to Jamaica soon after, re-joining the trio and beginning a new managerial setup with Lee Perry. Perry began to put more focus on the Wailers' rebel stance as they joined with the Barrett brothers, Aston and Carlton, and through this emerged the strong sound associated with the group. With this association came new music and rhythms that were to make Jamaican music popular and establish Marley as the international star he was destined to be. Success by the mid-70's was theirs and Marley was treated as a real success story while he was a major influence on others coming up. Audiences were becoming racially crossover andmore vast and Marley was now recording an album a year. He survived an assassination try in 1976 and eventually left Jamaica for Miami, where he was operated on in 1977 for a cancerous toe. The cancer eventually spead, finally causing his death in 1981. In 1992, he was remembered with a memorial CD box set taking in his entire career as a singer, songwriter and exciting performer, even though he was only 36 at death.

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