On this day in 1945 Nesta Robert ("Bob") Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Bob's father was a captain in the Royal Marines, a plantation overseer and Caucasian. His father provided financial support for Bob's mother Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican, but rarely saw her or his son and died when Bob was only 10 years old. Because of his mixed racial origins Bob Marley suffered racial prejudice as a youth, for in Jamaica at that time multiracial people were referred to as "half-castes".
At the age of 14, Bob dropped out of school to play music with Rastafari musician Joe Higgs. It was through Higgs that he would meet the other founding Wailers, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingstone in the early 1960s. They would go on to world wide fame with the release of their records "Catch a Fire" and later "Burnin". Below is a performance for the BBC of one of the songs off "Catch a Fire", "Stir it Up", complete with Moog synthesizer:
Video courtesy of jahlivejahlove
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