Ziggi Marley Biography

Ziggi Marley: all in the father of January 26, Jan 4 24 Ziggi Marley was only eight years old, when his mother and dad-the great Ruggi-musician Bob Marley-were fired by unknown in his house in Kingston, Yamaika. But he remembers it like yesterday. It was scary, but at the same time exciting, ”he says. However, just two days later, on December 5, Bob Marley insisted on playing the concert "Smile Jamaica" in the Park of National Heroes in Kingston, as planned, despite the fact that he had bullet wounds in his arm and chest.

The concert was taken as a call to the world against the backdrop of growing violence and political riots in Jamaica, when 80 people watched how Marlie sings their classical things, including Get Up Stand Up. For reggae fans, this is a legend, although Siggi insists that his mother, who was shot at the head that night, deserves no less attention. I am proud of both my father and my mother, because teamwork took place between them.

Bob would not have been Bob without Rita, you understand what I mean? This is a holiday in honor of the singer, which four decades after death from cancer at the age of 36 remains one of the best-selling artists in the world. His posthumous album of the best hits "Legend", released in the year, spent more than a week in the top of Great Britain and was sold by a circulation of more than 25 million copies around the world.

One room, for example, is decorated in the form of a forest with the sounds and smells of Jamaica, as a visual background for many songs. In another space, they recreated a specific city landscape with huge artistic installations, and there is even a layout of concert backstage Bob Marley and the Wailers group. At the quiet disco, which they call Soul Shakedown Studio, visitors are invited to put on headphones and dance to reggae music.

But the highlight of the show, perhaps, is the exposition of the images of Marley himself never published. Siggi explains that they were discovered in the storage chamber of the photographer Jean Bernard Soi, who died last year and whose two dozen photographs seemed to be taken on the same day in Kingston, about a year before the death of Marley. These are frank pictures without productions, some captured a singer playing football, who, according to him, was the biggest passion of Bob after music.

He loved boxing, running, table tennis, was a sports guy. ” He sometimes came to Ziggy primary school and played against his group comrades, he says, adding: "He was fast and he had a good blow." He laughs loudly at the idea that his father’s game was on a professional level, according to friends who played with him. Bob Marley in Kingston in the year. Photo: Jean Bernard Soi, he believes that the game of football was a way for Marley to alleviate his daily life.

He says that his father was always in demand, and sometimes it seemed that everyone wanted a piece from him. Concerned about shooting in his house, Marley moved to London for a while, living in relative calmness on the Otkli Street, 42 in Chelsea. It was there that he wrote one of his strongest songs “Three Little Birds”. Ziggi stayed on Yamaika along with the rest of his brothers and sisters Marley had 11 recognized children, but claims that he did not miss his father during separation.

Not because he did not love him, but if necessary, he says. Ziggy is the nickname, which was given to him by his father, meaning “little jamb” was 12 years old when Marley died. He even performed at the funeral. And in a broader sense, he “lived with this” all his adult life, occupying his own niche as the best recording artist. He is the eight -time winner of the Grammy Award, seven times received it for the best album in the style of reggae, the last time a year.

Ziggi has the same Trenchtown accent as his father, although he lives in Los Angeles with his wife Orley and four children for about 15 years.

He knows that he will never completely come out of his father’s shadow, and admits that some people want him to become his replacement. It is always expected that he will perform covers for Bob Marley's songs at his live performances, but he says that he is more than happy to do it. Sometimes he goes to a tour, where he sings only the songs of his father. He does not have a favorite song, but he selects "Redemption Song" as the most close to his heart.

He says that this song very often sounded at a time when his father died, and she meant so much for so many people.