- Nesta really started playing and singing as a teenager. Almost every night he would play or go to a friends house and play.
- His mother however had more practical plans for him. She wanted him to become a welder.
- But one day Nesta came home with silver in his eye from his apprentice welding training, which consequently ended his career.
- Not too long after a man named Derek Morgan spoke to Nesta's mother and convinced her that he has a chance and was very talented.
- When Robert Nesta Marley came to the United States he officially changed his name to Bob Marley.
- As Nesta worked as a janitor at the DuPont Hotel he continued to write songs.
- After a short time, Nesta grew tired of America and moved back to Jamaica the one place he belonged.
Why were Rastas feared in those days? Did practicing Rasta affect Nesta's life significantly? Who was Rita? Was she his baby-mama? "Dangerous? How bacon dangerous? 'It come from de swine where Jesus cast de devil." - Irony "Stones for my pillow and the sky is my roof." - Metaphor |
