After the fact, I kind of understand what people were trying to say. So I wasn’t really exposed to it that much. When you come to America, with all the music experts who judge and criticize, that’s where you get that idea that “oh, the pressure of being Bob Marley’s children” or whatever – that’s where that comes from that doesn’t come from where we come from. We do our music, you just do it and it’s there. Growing up in Jamaica, we’re not growing up around all of these ideas all over the world. When he passed, it became this big thing.Īfter he passed, did you feel people were looking to you to pick up where he left off? He was still a legend, but it wasn’t that big of a thing. It’s a little bit different for me because we started music before my father passed away, before the “great rise of the legend Bob Marley” in the eyes of the whole world. So for a couple of years my father and I were musicians alike.
He was the one in the studio recording it, putting down guitars on the track, and the first concert we did as a group was a concert my father was on. He’s the one who wrote the first song that ever sang. My father was the one who got us into music. When you started your own music career, what sort of pressure did you feel? Led the Grammy-winning Melody Makers and is now a solo artist Here, five of the late legend’s children – Ziggy, Cedella, Stephen, Karen, and Rohan – reveal their thoughts about the joys and challenges of growing up with a music hero, and the lessons they carry with them to this day. It’s a big family – Marley had 11 acknowledged children, by seven different mothers – and also a diverse one, ranging from musicians and athletes to authors, business impresarios and fashion designers, all of whom had unique perspectives on, and relationships with, their famous father. It’s being republished in honor of what would have been Bob Marley’s 75th birthday, February 6th, 2020.īob Marley’s legend just keeps growing, but his sons and daughters are the ones who live with it most closely.
This article was originally published March 28th, 2014.
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