Music Legend: Nesta Robert Marley

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Today, people who have listened and still listening to his music celebrates his name day. He made the world listen to reggae and social issues he encrypted in his songs. Surely, he isn't the best model for us to follow because we all know what was his lifestyle like but his love to music, and being socially and politically aware is outstanding.

Every song he made and sang along with his band, The Wailers, never failed to echo the message of social inequality and deprivation, and truthful optimism. As the Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga  said "His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation."

May 11, 1981 marked the end of Bob Marley's life, but despite of his death his music still resonates today. 

Personally, he is one of the people I look up to. His music was one of the things I most appreciated during the times I don't know what I want and what to care about. Bob Marley then was an unusual thing to discover and like, for he is not so popular icon during my teenage days (Britney Spears and Westlife dominates the music industry that time), but with its appealing reggae music I learned to appreciate songs beyond its lyrics and rhythm. It made me listen to music beyond the superficial things offers. 

Many raises they eyebrows and give my oh-really-seriously look when I say I love reggae music especially Bob Marley's songs. They just don't know what they're missing not to know what reggae music offers and its astounding social-outcry lyrics all about.

Long live reggae music! Long live Bob Marley and The Wailers' music!

Here's some of the phrases Bob Marley shared to people:

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and ability to affect those around him positively."

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"Say you just can't live that negative way, If you know what I mean; Make way for the positive day."

"The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman with no intentions of loving her."

"Truth is, everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the one's worth suffering for."

"Live the life you love. Love the life you live."

His final words: "Money can't but life" 

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