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Name: Bob Marley


Real name: Robert Nesta Marley

Biography: The great Jamaican Singer, composer, song writer Bob Marley was born in in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish on 6th February 1945.His father was white Naval officer Norval Sinclair Marley who was married to 18 years old Afro Jamaican Cedella Booker. Though his father was responsible for financial support of his family but he could not give time to his family for busy official schedule and trip ,when Marley was 10 his father died and after that he faced many difficulties in his life for mixed race .

Marley became friend with Bunny Wailer with whom he started playing music. When he was at the age of 14 he didn’t go to school any more for the cause of music ,he was making music that time with Joe Higgs. In 1962, He recorded his first two singles "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong.In 1963 Marley formed Ska and Rocksteady group with help of Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith. They were calling themselves "The Teenagers” which was finally named as "The Wailers In 1966 he married to Rita Anderson and they moved to Marley’s mother residence in US for little period

Marley and his band teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band, The Upsetters. after a misunderstanding with Dodd. During 1968 to 72 Both Marley and his wife with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer tried to commercializing The Wailers' sound by re cutting old track with Jad Records. “Catch a fire” Wailer’s first first album was released on 1973 and performed well world wide. After a year Burnin' was released which included the songs "Get Up, Stand Up" and "I Shot The Sheriff".

Marley remains the most widely known and respected performer of reggae music, and he was doing everything for the growth of Jamaican music and Rastafari movement.
He was famous for some of greatest hits like "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love". He died on May 11 ,1981 and after 3 years on 1984 his compilation album Legend released. which performed very well with sales of more than 20 million copies.

Log Comment: Music is the soundtrack of his life.

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Name: Ray Charles


Real name: Ray Charles Robinson

Biography:: Ray Charles was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia. His father, Bailey Robinson was a railroad Repair Man and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. The sad fact about Ray was he was blind but not in born blind but he lost his sight at the age of five. According to some source Ray lost his eye sight due to soapy water infection in his eye which was left untreated. He studied at Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind and there he developed the God gifted quality of music ,when he was 10 he lost his father and after 5 years his mother passed away.

In school Charles learned only classical music but he wanted to learn jazz, blues like music and he didn’t go to schools after his mother passed away .He lived in Jacksonville with his mother’s friends and with in a year he learned the skill of playing piano and played the piano for bands at the Ritz Theatre in LaVilla, Charles always wanted a band of his own and for this he moved to Seattle in 1947 and his first recording was for the brand Swing Time Records, achieving his first hit with the 1949 "Confession Blues". The song acquired no 2 position in R&B charts. From then he never looked back and gained huge success.

He brings a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his modern sound recording techniques. He also appeared in the popular 1980 film, Blues Brothers. Frank Sinatra called him "the only real genius in the Enterprise” In 2004 Rolling stone Magazine selected Charles as 10th best Artist in its 100 all time lists and voted no 2 by them in 2008 list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.


Charles was married twice and he had 12 children by 9 different wives. His first marriage to Eileen Williams was for very short period from July 31, 1951 to 1952. He had three children from his second wife Della Beatrice Howard Robinson from April 5, 1955 to 1977. His long term relation till death was Norma Pinella. He died on June 10, 2004.

Log Comment: After silence,that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible
is music.

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