World Remembers Bob Marley

February 6, 2014

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Scores of reggae fans from across the globe placed roses before a statue of Bob Marley yesterday to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the musician, whose charismatic, loose-limbed stage presence and lyrics promoting “one love” took the Jamaican musical genre to an international audience. Tourists watched as three clerics from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church spread incense and holy water around the Bob Marley Museum, the singer’s former home in the capital of Kingston. Rastafarians who gathered around the property spoke in reverential tones about the icon of reggae music who died of cancer in 1981 at age 36.