Bob Marley, orig. Robert Nesta Marley, (born Feb. 6, 1945, Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jam.—died May 11, 1981, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Jamaican singer and songwriter. Born in the hill country of Jamaica to a white father and a black mother, Marley was living in the Kingston slum known as Trench Town in the early 1960s when he formed the Wailers with …

