May 11: This day, that year in music history
1981 Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley, who is credited with bringing reggae into popular pop music, died at the age of 36 in July 1977. A devout Rastafarian, 2005 Marley reportedly passed away due to melanoma cancer — a cancer which only affects white people. His father was a white Jamaican of English descent. Even after his death his music has outsold any other reggae artist in history. In 2004, Irish singer Bono inducted Marely in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Earlier to that in 2001, he was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob Marley Image Credi...
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