As I was reading the book Catch a Fire by Timothy White I discovered many things that I didn't know about Bob Marley. This book was very informative on how Marley got started in the music business. Robert Nesta Marley was born of February 6, 1945 in a small village called Nine Miles. Bob's father Norval Marley was a white Jamaican and a Captain in the Army. When Bob was young his mother and father got a …showed first 75 words of 601 total…

…showed last 75 words of 601 total…to end his last days in Jamaica, but he was so ill that he had to check into a Miami hospital where he died on May 11, 1981. They returned his body to Jamaica where it was placed in a specially constructed mausoleum at his birthplace, Nine Miles. This book, Catch a Fire was very insightful about the life of Bob Marley and well written. The book reviewed Bob's life as a musician, artist and peace maker.