Post by Jamaica Loop News

From Trench Town to the World: How Bob Marley Made Jamaica’s Soul Immortal In the half-century between Robert Nesta Marley's birth in a rural Jamaican village in 1945 and the closing of the twentieth century, a single voice transformed the politics of suffering into an art of survival that crossed every border music had ever drawn. This is the chronicle of how one man from one of Kingston's poorest streets became a permanent fixture in the conscience of the world — and how his family, his island, and his music continued to carry that weight long after his death....