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 * Bob Marley **
 * Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter and Rasafarian. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers (1964- 1974) and Bob Marley and the Wailers (1974-1981). Marley died nearly thirty years ago, but remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.

Bob Marley was born in the small village of Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names. His father Norval Sinclair Marley was a white Jamaican of English descent.

Marley suffered racial prejudice as a youth, because of his mixed racial origins and faced questions about his own identity throughout his life. He once reflected: ** "I don't have prejudice against himself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white. "
 * He died in 1981 after a long bout of cancer. **

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His Rastafarian religion was one of the main important messages in his music. Also his opinion on a topic was also a major influence. Hip hop really did not have a major influence on this artist. I would believe that in the older days he would have encouraged the older hip hop music. When I say older I mean when hip hop served a purpose, unlike the commercial music being sold today.=====