Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley was born in 1945 and died in 1981.
The most famous reggae musician who has ever been responsible for popularizing the genre outside of Jamaica and become a political symbol for blacks all over the world.
In 1967, Marley converted to the Rastafarian, a religious-political movement that recognizes the Negus of Ethiopia in Africa who will bring back his people dispersed.
His music speaks of the poor and the marginalized, the abuse of power, the lives of those who have nothing.
In his music you can feel the struggle against oppression and racial politics and the desire to unify all people of color as the only way to achieve freedom.
He plays with his Wailers, a band composed of, among others, Peter Tosh, anywhere around the world, bringing great success everywhere. I shot the sheriff But I Did not shoot the deputies ... the political aspect of his life was, if possible, far more important than artistic.
Marley became a political leader, spiritual and religious.
In 1978 he was awarded, on behalf of 500 million Africans, the United Nations Medal of Peace, brings together the same year during a concert, all the different factions that fought in the suburbs of Kingston.
The greater the reward obtained in 1980 when he was invited to participate in the celebration of Zimbabwean
In July 1977 he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in a toe, he refuses treatment, his religion The Rastafarianism, wants the body to remain intact.
A very heartfelt and intimate, his spiritual testament which contains singles like Redemption Song and Forever Loving Jah.
And it is in Redemption Song that says, "emancipated yourselves from mental slavery, No One But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds ...
cancer spreads But rapidly throughout the body, died four years later, in Miami, after a flight emergency in an attempt to return to Jamaica, to die in his homeland.
Bob Marley is regarded by his people a spiritual guide and every February 6 in Jamaica there is a national holiday in his honor.
Bruce Springsteen Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen born in 1949.
The Boss began playing at age 16 in a group called Castiles (a name taken from a brand of shampoo), with two guitars and a bass, get some success in some clubs and New Jersey.
In 1967, the Castiles try the leap to New York had been recruited to hold 29 concerts at the Cafe Wha in Greenwich Village.
The room in those years was a very lively cultural center, the center of the new trends in music and literature, the same room where he had already started Jimi Hendrix.
The band does not have the expected success and melts in the same year.
Between 1969 and 1971 he played with Steve Van Zandt, Danny Federici and Vini Lopez in the Child. The apprenticeship is long, the band changed its name to Steel Mill and then Dr.Zoom and the Sonic Boom to the final name of Bruce Springsteen and The E. Street Band, with which it comes to international success.
It 's the representative of American popular music, thanks to him has been passed down songs and characters that otherwise would be lost in oblivion plastic eighties music.
The texts of the early works speak generally of a deluded American youth, and the press since the early Springsteen called Work Class Hero, the hero of the working class.
The theme of the failure of the American dream is still very frequent in his works: his characters are often the losers, ordinary people of the immense periphery U.S. struggles to survive. The beginning music
begin in 1972 with a hearing at Columbia Records, but the turning point came with the album Born to Run, his third, which became a huge sales success thanks to the massive transmission of the song on American commercial radio.
The 80's are proof of the worldwide success thanks to Springsteen's Born in the USA. The next decade is instead a time of crisis, without great success.
At the end of the 90s again with a world tour with the newfound E. Street Band Reunion Tour called
A return is acclaimed by critics and audiences, his true musical renaissance that saw him at the center of a new worldwide success.
One year after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York published The Rising, a very beautiful work that speaks of wounded national pride, but without falling into discounted patriotism.
An album where the topic of religion is touched on in a holistic way, with references to Christianity, but also to Buddhism and Islam.
In 2006 he released We Shall Overcam The Seeger Sessions, an album of cover songs in the American tradition, a beautiful anthology of an artist like Pete Seeger, strongly objected to its communist and rehabilitated only in recent years.
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