# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-marley
# Generated: 2026-08-31T11:51:24.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-marley"
name: "Bob Marley"
slug: "bob-marley"
description: "He made reggae a worldwide language and turned Rastafarian spirituality into a sound people recognized before they could name it. Decades gone, his voice still moves through stadiums and protest lines alike."
tagline: "Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981)"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-02-06"
deathDate: "1981-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 57
totalFollowers: 5990000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Nine Mile, Jamaica in 1945, Marley formed the Teenagers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963, soon becoming the Wailers and releasing "One Love" two years later. After signing to Island Records and relocating to London in the early 1970s, the renamed Bob Marley and the Wailers broke internationally with Catch a Fire and Burnin' in 1973. His 1975 live version of "No Woman, No Cry" became his first hit outside Jamaica, followed by Rastaman Vibration cracking the U.S. Top 50 in 1976. Months later he survived an assassination attempt at his home, believed politically motivated, and moved permanently to London to record Exodus. Diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma in 1977, he died in May 1981, three months after receiving Jamaica's Order of Merit. Legend, released in 1984, became the best-selling reggae album ever made.