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Bob Marley was born on Tuesday, February 6 1945 in the small village of Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was born in Jamaica in 1895 to English parents who originated from Sussex, south east England. Norval Sinclair Marley was a Marine officer and captain, and also a plantation overseer when he married Bobs mother, Cedella Booker, an eighteen-year-old black girl. Norvals family apparently disapproved of his mixed race relationship. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but he seldom saw his son as he was often away on trips. Norval Sinclair Marley died of a heart attack in 1955, age 60, when Bob was just 10 years old. Bob Marley faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life with a white English father and a black mother, especially when Jamaica was experiencing racial tension in the 1960s. He reflects:"I dont have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me dont dip on nobodys side. Me dont dip on the black mans side nor the white mans side. Me dip on Gods side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."Bob Marley was raised by his mother, Cedella Marley, who moved them to Kingstons Trenchtown slum after her husbands death. Bob Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (aka Bunny Wailer) with whom Marley started to play music. Bob Marley left school at the age of 14 and started as an apprentice at a local welders shop, while spending his free time with Bunny Livingston, making music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafarian whom many critics regard as Marleys true mentor. It was at one of the sessions with Higgs that Marley and Livingston met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh) who also had musical ambitions.In 1962 Bob Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", produced by Leslie Kong, a local music producer. The singles attracted little attention at that time. Both were later re-released in the album Songs of Freedom. he died from cancer and was buried in his hometown, at nine mile!! he is the greatest musician alive! RESPECT TO BOB MARLEY