Granderson: Which Bob Marley will the next film portray?
Will the next screen version of Bob Marley be the chill, commercially popular voice of 'every little thing gonna be all right,' or the revolutionary?
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Will the next screen version of Bob Marley be the chill, commercially popular voice of 'every little thing gonna be all right,' or the revolutionary?
Bob Marley and the Wailers in concert in the 1970s. Image by alamy On May 11, 1981, the world lost one of the greatest preachers it had ever seen “Preacher” is probably not the first word that most would use to describe Robert “Nesta” Marley, the Jamaican reggae singer and leader of Bob Marley & The Wailers. For me, though, listening to him had the feel of attending a revival, a call gathering all nations in the harmony of one sound. Rural Jamaica and its deep, multifaceted spirituality gave birth to Marley’s vocation as a preacher. By day, the communal rhythms of bush agriculture, ...