The tongue of a good musician never rots , it transcends all religions and divisions; This is Robert Nesta Marley, he has arguably become more popular after his death than he was alive.
Many good music lovers describes him as the priest of Raggae music, others sees him as a prophet, hero and others too calls him with many legendary attributions.
His style of music has convinced many that gospel songs are never how we were made to believe and understand.. It is gospel when one can relate to it and have positive impacts on his or her life.
His songs were enjoyed and are still enjoyed by all classes of people, the rich, the poor, men and women, the aged and youngsters.
Marley, was great enough to be hero and he had some of those heroic
qualities. He tried to seek for peace and promote love for humanity through his music, It is still heroic action to try seek for something that is very hard to accomplish.
What is really interesting about him is that, he wanted to bring people together irrespective of their race, religion and class; whether black, white, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim etc…all he wanted was togetherness, equality and peace.
“I don’t have prejudice against myself. My father was a white man and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don’t deh pon nobody’s side. Me don’t deh pon the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me deh pon God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white”, he made it known
By his words, you could understand that he was religious and he stood not only for utopia but for God too . He was one of the kind to understand true peace by himself, its almost like he knew how to bring World to it. Bob can be obviously named honorable hero of Jamaica, Africa and the whole world.
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