Bob Marley was born in Jamaica in 1945 and died of cancer in 1981. He is a world-famous singer, the pride of Jamaica and known as the father of reggae music. In fact, bob should say that reggae music has been promoted to the world, and the real father of reggae music should be earlier, but it doesn't matter who can be the father.
English name of reggae music is reggae, which is a kind of earth pop music gradually evolved in Jamaica in 196s. In the 197s, it spread all over the world through movies, records and singers' global tours and made a sensation.
The characteristic of reggae music is that it has a special sense of rhythm from the artistic form, and it belongs to the off beat of backhand stress, which is simply the opposite of the music in everyone's usual hall. Reggae's rhythm is not fast, it should be said that it is the normal walking speed. In terms of ideological connotation, reggae music reflects human rights, racial equality, peace, anti-colonial pan-Africanism and many other themes. But the core is the rasta belief that exists in Jamaica and even the whole world, and rasta people also think that this is just a way of life. The spiritual leader of rasta belief is former Ethiopian king Haila Selassie, who died in 1974. Called Jah by rasta, it comes from a name for God in ancient Hebrew.
Ras Tafari is the name of Haila Selassie before she ascended the throne, where ras is equivalent to duke or prince.