A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z       The Estate of Bob Marley For nearly two decades Nesta Robert Marley was one of the biggest global superstars – perhaps the biggest – and the undisputed king of reggae music. His name became almost synonymous with the island/urban sound he helped create, a deeply political blend of history and spirituality. His overwhelming charisma and magnetic sexuality attracted legions of fans in scores of countries, and he toured constantly throughout the 1970s, building up a legend that raised him to mythical status when he died of cancer in 1981. The posthumous album “Legend” remains one of the most commercially successful albums of all time, with sales of almost 15 million copies.   The Adventures of Nesta The Marley family has united to authorize the first in-depth “memoir” of Bob’s life, a novelistic account based on journals, letters, photographs, and first-hand tales from close friends and family members of the years before he became famous. As "The Motorcycle Diaries" told Ernesto Guevara’s personal chronicle of a road trip he took before becoming the revolutionary known as “Che,” THE ADVENTURES OF NESTA tells the gritty story of Nesta’s life before he became Bob Marley. It takes the reader into the rough and tumble days in Kingston’s Trenchtown slum when Bob worked as an apprentice at a local welder’s shop while hustling for gigs and attention with his young band, The Wailers. Penned by a critically acclaimed Caribbean writer, the book follows a young man who escaped his hardscrabble beginnings in rural Jamaica for wild days of possibility in a Kingston alive with music.