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Bob Marley's Musical Genius and the Sounds of Jamaica

Bob Marley's Musical Genius and the Sounds of Jamaica

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May 11, 2019
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Bob Marley would have been 74 were he alive today, yet the iconic singer died from cancer on May 11, 1981. Marley – who survived an assassination attempt just five years prior to his death – was placed in a mausoleum atop a hill in his birth village of Nine Mile, his coffin painted and containing his red Gibson Les Paul guitar, a Bible opened to Psalm 2…

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