Title: Julian Marley brings good reggae

source:the daily star

Excerpt: When Julian Marley was about to perform his seventh number of the night “On the Floor”, he stepped down from the stage and offered the audience to join him. This proved to be the key moment of the concert, as the audience who were glued to the seats until then suddenly broke free and started to dance and sing with Julian. He might have been equally surprised to see the Bangladeshis' enthusiasm and interest in reggae music.

Excerpt: And when Julian entered the stage through the right wing of the stage, he came along in a rhythmic fashion that Bob Marley was known for. There were two ladies to Julian's left to produce chorus all the time. Bob used to perform with three ladies known as 'I Threes', including Julian's step mother Rita Marley.

Excerpt: And Julian, who vowed to perform some good reggae numbers - to create love through celebrating his father's songs, in the end - left his audience fulfilled.

Title: No More Glory Days

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: IF there are reggae fans who believe the music will one day return to its classic period of the 1970s, Ziggy Marley is not one of them.
In an interview for the latest issue of Spinner magazine, Marley said it is foolhardy to think the music his father Bob Marley and contemporaries like Jimmy Cliff made 30-odd years ago can be replicated.

Excerpt: "When you look at his and my father's generation, that whole generation, when reggae music was something new for the rest of the world, it will not compete ever again in history. It's been done," said Marley.

Title: Ziggy discusses latest Projects

source:billboard

Excerpt: There comes a time in adulthood when you are faced with the challenge of passing on your years of knowledge to a child. The struggle of getting our kids to think we know what we’re talking about is universal. We want them to think the music, styles and slang from our generation is cool, and it’s not usually an easy task.

Fortunately, Cedella Marley, oldest daughter to Bob Marley, singer/songwriter, designer, entrepreneur and humanitarian extraordinaire, has fought the good fight for generations to come. Ms. Marley has added author to her list of titles, creating children’s books that communicate the messages of her father’s music so simply and eloquently that even the most stubborn five year old will be holding a vibe after reading. Her works like Three Little Birds, One Love and her most recent title, Every Little Thing, use lyrics from some of Bob’s best-loved songs to communicate some of the values her family was raised with.

We had our resident children’s book expert, LargeUp contributor and kindergarten teacher Emily Shapiro, chat with her about her books, among other topics. Aside from her many obvious talents, Cedella is extremely insightful about how to best support and enlighten our youth. We highly recommend spreading the love and buying one or all of her books for a child in your life this holiday season.

LargeUp: I’m a kindergarten teacher in New York and I use your books in my classroom, so I’m really interested in speaking with you about them. But I wanted to start by hearing about your journey into writing.

Cedella Marley: From Melody Makers time, I’ve always written songs or choruses. I had forgotten when I wrote The Boy from Nine Miles… that was almost 10 years ago. It’s something that I’ve always loved to do, and something I grew up doing.

LU: There are so many of your father’s songs that have incredible messages for children, how have you gone about choosing the songs to turn into books?

CM: I want to be able to relate the lyrics to them without changing it too much, so with every book I’ve done, I’ve kept the spirit, and just make a few changes because it’s for younger readers.

LU: There are so many that need to be shared this way.

CM: “Smile Jamaica,” “Lively Up Yourself,” “High Tide” and some Melody Makers songs could be perfect [as children’s books]. If I was to really sit down and think about it I would probably find between 20 and 25 songs not just from Daddy but from Mommy’s repertoire too, and the Melody Makers.



LU: You autographed [the book] One Love for my class and I brought it to school on your father’s birthday. I thought this is the coolest thing ever: I’m going to read them an autographed copy of One Love on Bob Marley’s birthday. I was playing his music all day and I pulled it out, and the kids weren’t really that excited. I was much more enthusiastic than they were. But the amazing thing is that, after we read the book, they totally understood the message in it and were able to explain how they followed the same principles in our school, and other things that we could be doing to spread love. That was a really special experience. I used it again in my classroom because a lot of our school’s community was affected by Hurricane Sandy. We did some community service projects and One Love was a perfect book to guide that. So thank you.

CM: No, thank you!

LU: The book has a very strong message. What do you want children to take away when they read it?

CM: I think every child will find someone who looks like them or a member of their family. So it’s relatable. “Little C” was really able to get people together. In Jamaica we say “Puss and Dog can get together, why can’t we love one another.” In the book, she has the chocolate lab, who was Bobby, who was our pet for 17 years and she really brought everyone together to build up the community. It’s like my mother always used to tell us: “Together you are stronger, as brothers and sisters, and friends and family.” I really want to large up Vanessa Brantley-Newton, who did the illustrations. It was easy for me to write it but to collaborate with someone who can really make these characters believable and lovable and liveable [was important] as well.

Excerpt: As for the sound, Marley plans to stay within reggae, "paying respect to the roots but always pushing the envelope of trying to create something new -- which is basically impossible. But to try to do that brings a lot to it. Just having that intention in your head brings a lot of creativity and brings some interesting ideas and interesting chords and arrangements rather than saying, 'Alright, let's just go in to do what we [have] always done and what has been done before. I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too."

Title: Cedella talks Children's Books and Family

source:large up

Excerpt: LargeUp: I’m a kindergarten teacher in New York and I use your books in my classroom, so I’m really interested in speaking with you about them. But I wanted to start by hearing about your journey into writing.

Cedella Marley: From Melody Makers time, I’ve always written songs or choruses. I had forgotten when I wrote The Boy from Nine Miles… that was almost 10 years ago. It’s something that I’ve always loved to do, and something I grew up doing.

Excerpt: LU: The book has a very strong message. What do you want children to take away when they read it?

CM: I think every child will find someone who looks like them or a member of their family. So it’s relatable. “Little C” was really able to get people together. In Jamaica we say “Puss and Dog can get together, why can’t we love one another.” In the book, she has the chocolate lab, who was Bobby, who was our pet for 17 years and she really brought everyone together to build up the community. It’s like my mother always used to tell us: “Together you are stronger, as brothers and sisters, and friends and family.” I really want to large up Vanessa Brantley-Newton, who did the illustrations. It was easy for me to write it but to collaborate with someone who can really make these characters believable and lovable and liveable [was important] as well.

Title: Ziggy Marley Chats Live Album

source:jetmag

Excerpt: What made you decide to go live for this album?

During the last couple of tours and shows we were having a good time and a good vibe and I wanted to document that so that’s why. And I plan to take a break next year. I want to do some gardening and some other work.

Excerpt: What else are you working on?

I’ve got “Marijuana Man,” which is a graphic comic I put out. And I’m doing some webisodes. I’m using artwork, it’s not fully animated yet but there’s voices and that sort of stuff. So, we’re doing that and also in the next couple of months I’m doing a little kid book. It’s called, “I Love You Too.” It’s a nice little book that children and family can read together.

Title: Ziggy on Reggae and Hemp

source:spinner

Excerpt: Ziggy Marley believes reggae will never be what it was in his father's day, but he's doing his best to keep the genre's spirit alive. He's also doing cartoon voices for his Marijuanaman comic, has his smiling mug on a line of food products and is releasing a live record from his latest extensive tour. And it's nothing if not wild and free.

Excerpt: "When you look at his and my father's generation, that whole generation, when reggae music was something new for the rest of the world, it will not compete ever again in history. It's been done," Marley says.

Excerpt: "I've spoken to some of the other elders of the music. There is a spirituality over the generation, a magic within it that's not captured today," he says. "That's how I look at it. I'm trying to capture that thing in my music. I can be innovative, adventurous, that spirit I will try to always capture. But the root of it, that magic or that spirit, it's a little missing in the next generation. Good music is still coming out, but if we could get back that it would be much better."

Title: Ziggy contributes to End Polio Now CD

source:end polio

Excerpt: Proving that music can literally change the world, Ziggy Marley is uniting with ten other world renowned artists on a CD designed to rid the world of a lingering disease that continues to disable children – polio.

Excerpt: The CD, End Polio Now, features a global collection ofsongs performed by Rotary’s celebrity polio eradication ambassadors from the music industry. Spanning nine countries these artists have donated their tracks to support the fight to end polio. All proceeds from End Polio Now will go directly to Rotary International’s polio eradication campaign.

Excerpt: Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign raises funds to make sure every child throughout the world receives access to the oral polio vaccine. Though polio has declined rapidly since 1985, the fight isn't over and for as little as 60 cents, a child can be protected for life. Join the fight to end this disabling and potentially fatal disease. Together we can make history and create a polio-free world.

Title: Ziggy on Latest Live Album

source:ebony

Excerpt: EBONY: What made you want to record another live concert album?

Ziggy Marley: Well, I’ve actually been liking the things I’ve been doing and the vibe, so I wanted to share that and give people opportunity to experience the vibe that we have live.

Excerpt: EBONY: Is it difficult to live up to the Marley name?

ZM: I mean… this is a challenge. But it’s not something that we think about as a challenge. It’s a challenge because of people’s perception, but for us, we’re just trying to be true to what we’re doing and be real and respect our father’s legacy.

Excerpt: EBONY: Who inspires you and why?

ZM: Well, my greatest inspiration is… I guess people call it God. We say Jah. We know some people might say “the universe” or other things, but there is a spirituality that guides us and gives us our purpose. In my life—and I’m not speaking generally, I don’t know what about other people—but in my life this is what inspires me: this idea of purpose and service to your brothers and sisters. Music-wise, my father, Miles Davis, all of the great musicians. Marvin Gaye, too. I’ve even been checking out some classic, some Bach and some Beethoven, and studying, reading up about their music and about them. Because our music really plays a very important part in the psyche of society, and some music can do things to you that you never know.

Title: Cedella Marley discusses her new children's book

source:southflorida.com

Excerpt: " 'Every Little Thing' is my adaptation of one my favorite songs sung by my father. I kept the spirit of the lyrics but made some changes for younger readers," Marley says. "I am thrilled to introduce the spirit of 'Three Little Birds' to a new generation and ensure they know that 'Every little thing is going to be all right.' "

The working mom, who lives in Pinecrest, considers herself a homebody. "I don't really get out much as work and being a mom keeps me busy," she admits. "I am an avid online shopper and foodie who loves to cook. So I prefer to hang out at home cooking some food."

Excerpt: As far as releasing some new tunes, Marley says she is waiting for the right moment. "I have been saying that for a while, because my brothers keep the pressure on me," she says. "But [for now], I will just say, 'soon come.' "

Title: Big strides for Every Little Thing

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: CEDELLA Marley's latest book, Every Little Thing, is number one on Amazon's African-American children booklist.

Excerpt: Marley, daughter of reggae king Bob Marley, said Every Little Thing is based on her father's song, Three Little Birds.
"I have adapted the lyrics of my father to make it relevant to a younger generation including my own sons," the Tuff Gong International CEO told the Jamaica Observer in an email response.
Three Little Birds first appeared on Marley's 1977 album Exodus but released as a single by Island Records in 1980.

Title: Ziggy Marley to release live album

source:la.com

Excerpt: Five-time Grammy winner and reggae icon Ziggy Marley is set to release his new live album Ziggy Marley In Concert exclusively on iTunes on December 18th.

Excerpt: "ZIGGY MARLEY IN CONCERT" TRACKLISTING
1. Higher Vibrations
2. Personal Revolution
3. Welcome To The World
4. Beach In Hawaii
5. Reggae In My Head
6. Jah Will Be Done
7. Forward To Love
8. Tomorrow People
9. Justice-War (medley)
10. Changes
11. True To Myself
12. Black Cat
13. Love Is My Religion
14. Is This Love
15. Wild and Free

Title: Marley brothers make moves

source:jamaica gleaner

Excerpt: Ghetto Youths International has cultivated and is ready to unleash an eclectic collection of young talent on to the music scene this coming fall.

Excerpt: The record label, which is run by brothers Stephen, Julian, and Damian Marley, has gathered its wealth of experience and ear for talent and has been steadily discovering, developing, and signing gifted artistes. The roster includes well-anticipated acts such as Joseph 'Jo Mersa' Marley, Christopher Ellis, Jasmin Karma, Black-Am-I, Javaughn, and experienced singjay Wayne Marshall.

Excerpt: Ghetto Youths International was founded by Ziggy and Stephen Marley in 1989. Stephen, Damian, and Julian Marley later incorporated the family-owned label. The three brothers have applied their musical talent and vast experience to developing new and different acts and styles of music.

Title: Marley backs Hemp

source:las vegas review journal

Excerpt: "It denies us the use of the plant and all the benefits that come from the use of the plant," Marley, 43, says. "It has medicine properties, of course."

And hemp offers economic and environmental benefits via clothes and other goods, he says.

"The demonization of it is to our own detriment," Marley says. "We are spiting ourselves by trying to always criminalize our negative connotations to this plant."

Excerpt: "Alcohol is a very violent and destructive element, but an adult can buy as much alcohol as he can drink. It's legal in this society. But what are the benefits of a can of beer?"

Marley doesn't drink.

And he doesn't have to smoke to make music.

"I don't need cannabis or alcohol to make music. My music comes from a spiritual place. It doesn't depend on marijuana. It doesn't depend on anything but God."

Excerpt: "We're on a self-destructive path as a species. And the criteria we're using to judge our success is the wrong measurement. We're measuring success by economic prosperity, instead of moral or environmental prosperity."

But he does understand why the powers-that-be deny climate change.

"They don't want to start a new thing. They want to stick with an old thing for as long as they can," he says. "And the more they hold on, the more destructive it is.

"They're going to hold on until they can't hold on anymore. So something has to give."

Title: Ziggy Marley continues dad's musical, political legacy

source:bellinghan herald

Excerpt: MB: Were you encouraged to pursue music as a profession?

ZM: No, I wasn't necessarily encouraged to pursue it because as I said education was first. We didn't really have to pursue it because it was in us and we had to pursue the things that weren't in us; schooling was very important.

Excerpt: MB: Who are some of the musicians, famous or not, friends of your dad's or not, who have had an impact on your music and your career, and also on your personal philosophy?

ZM: Dennis Brown, Toots Hilbert, Delroy Wilson, Fela Kuti. ... Hmm who else? Everybody! My personal philosophy is I gather information from all of the other artists but it is unique to me as my own philosophy.

Title: The Legend Behind Ziggy Marley

source:grammy.com

Excerpt: In an exclusive interview with GRAMMY.com, Marley's eldest son, Ziggy Marley, discussed his father's universal impact, discovering his own unique musical talent and executive producing the new film, Marley, among other topics.

Excerpt: "[People] see my father as being down-to-earth, cool and … like a friend," said Marley. "His personality still resonates just as his music does."

Excerpt: "The film is really a definitive piece on my father's life," said Marley. "The family was really involved in the creation of the film. All of the individuals who are in the film are people who knew Bob intimately. So you are really getting the inner-circle view of [my father]."

Title: Ziggy discusses MARLEY

source:abc news

Excerpt: Bob Marley’s children, band mates, widow and ex-girlfriends help tell his story in the mammoth documentary covering the legendary artist’s humble beginnings in Jamaica and rise to become reggae’s first and biggest international superstar.

Excerpt: “If I’m doing a concert and I’m having a problem with the audience…I just play a Bob Marley song and I’m good for the rest of the night,” Ziggy Marley said with a laugh. “I come out and just pull like ‘Jammin” or ‘Is This Love’ and I’ve got them now. Let me go back and do some of my own stuff.”
Ziggy said he learned things about his father in the process of working on the documentary, including the fact that his father was discriminated against in Jamaica because his father was white.

Title: A Conversation with Rita Marley

source:chrity: water

Excerpt: Rita Marley chats with Scott Harrison from charity: water to discuss the charity's initiative and how it came to be.

Title: 5 Questions With Damian Marley

source:vibe

Excerpt: WE’RE now in the midst of the nation’s most widespread drought in 60 years, stretching across 29 states and threatening farmers, their crops and livestock. But there is another risk as water becomes more scarce. Power plants may be forced to shut down, and oil and gas production may be threatened.

Our energy system depends on water. About half of the nation’s water withdrawals every day are just for cooling power plants. In addition, the oil and gas industries use tens of millions of gallons a day, injecting water into aging oil fields to improve production, and to free natural gas in shale formations through hydraulic fracturing. Those numbers are not large from a national perspective, but they can be significant locally.

All told, we withdraw more water for the energy sector than for agriculture. Unfortunately, this relationship means that water problems become energy problems that are serious enough to warrant high-level attention.

During the 2008 drought in the Southeast, power plants were within days or weeks of shutting down because of limited water supplies. In Texas today, some cities are forbidding the use of municipal water for hydraulic fracturing. The multiyear drought in the West has lowered the snowpack and water levels behind dams, reducing their power output. The United States Energy Information Administration recently issued an alert that the drought was likely to exacerbate challenges to California’s electric power market this summer, with higher risks of reliability problems and scarcity-driven price increases.

And in the Midwest, power plants are competing for water that farmers want for their devastated corn crops.

Unfortunately, trends suggest that this water vulnerability will become more important with time.

Population growth will mean over 100 million more people in the United States over the next four decades who will need energy and water to survive and prosper. Economic growth compounds that trend, as per-capita energy and water consumption tend to increase with affluence. Climate-change models also suggest that droughts and heat waves may be more frequent and severe.

Thankfully, there are some solutions.

The government can collect, maintain and make available accurate, updated and comprehensive water data, possibly through the United States Geological Survey and the E.I.A. The E.I.A. maintains an extensive database of accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive information on energy production, consumption, trade and price. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent set of data for water. Consequently, industry, investors, analysts, policy makers and planners lack the information they need to make informed decisions about power plant siting or cooling technologies.

The government should also invest in water-related research and development (spending has been pitifully low for decades) to seek better air-cooling systems for power plants, waterless techniques for hydraulic fracturing, and biofuels that do not require freshwater irrigation.

We should encourage the use of reclaimed water for irrigation, industry and the cooling of equipment at industrial operations like smelters and petrochemical complexes. These steps typically spare a significant amount of energy and cost. The use of dry and hybrid wet-dry cooling towers that require less water should be encouraged at power plants, since not all of them need wet cooling all the time. As power plants upgrade their cooling methods to ones that are less water-intensive, these operations can save significant volumes of water.

Most important, conservation should be encouraged, since water conservation results in energy conservation, and vice versa.

New carbon emissions standards can also help save water. A plan proposed by the Obama administration (requiring new power plants to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour generated) would encourage utilities to choose less carbon- and water-intensive fuels. Conventional coal plants, which are very thirsty, exceed the standards proposed by the president. But relatively clean, and water-lean, power plants that use wind, solar panels and natural gas combined cycle, would meet them. Thus, by enforcing CO2 limits, a lot of water use can be avoided.

Because rivers and aquifers can span many states (or countries), because there is no alternative to water, and because water represents a critical vulnerability for our energy system, governments at all levels have a stake in working with industry to find solutions. The downsides of doing nothing — more blackouts — are too serious to ignore.

Excerpt: VIBE: Your father’s music has a spiritual tone to it, when you perform his music do you feel like you’re channeling him in any way?
Wow I don’t really think about that to tell you the truth. I’m a big fan of his music. I love to sing his music. It’s fun to me. On a spiritual level—lyrically when you listen to it—I believe the words. It’s like I’m singing something of my own because I recognize. So I just believe the words.

Title: Jamaica Best Olympic Kit

source:time magazine

Excerpt: We love these uniforms, mostly because the designers didn’t seem to be trying too hard. The vivid colors and geometric colors are so fun! Just like the Olympics!

Title: Jamaica Best Olympic Kit

source:time magazine

Title: Ziggy on Reggae

source:mtv.ca

Excerpt: "It's like a mantra, a constant rhythm and groove," says Ziggy when asked to definitely describe the 'sound' of reggae. "It repeats in a type of melodic mode."

Excerpt: "The Rasta culture, which is the dreadlocks, and the [colours] red, green and yellow is really something that is separate then reggae, it's so dominant in reggae that people think reggae and the Rasta thing [is the same thing], but everybody has their own look and feel."

Excerpt: "It's best known in reggae because we come from Jamaica, and again - my culture, the Rasta culture uses the plant as a sacrament, as a religious thing. We use it for a lot of other thing than just smoking, a lot of people probably don't know. I grew up in a house with a lot of scorpions. So, if you got a scorpion bite one of the remedies is a bottle of alcohol, with marijuana leaf, pimento seed, and all sorts of herbs in it. It's a whole thing, not just smoking."

Title: Get Up Stand Up

source:bobmarley.com

Excerpt: On June 4, 2012, Fifty Six Hope Road Music, Ltd., the legal entity holding the trademark, publicity, persona and other intellectual property rights to Bob Marley, commenced an action in the United States District Court, Central District of California against several parties that have been manufacturing, distributing and offering for sale certain potpourri/kush products which bear Bob Marley’s name, image, trademark, persona and likeness.

Excerpt: “We have never authorized any party to sell these types of products with our Father’s image and likeness on them and are very upset to see that people are buying these products and being harmed by them. As a result we felt compelled to take action against the parties that have been illegally manufacturing, distributing and selling these unauthorized goods,” states Cedella Marley, a Director of Hope Road and Bob’s daughter.

Title: Ziggy talks hemp

source:ottawa citizen

Excerpt: %u201CThe herb,%u201D Marley says, warming up to a recent phone interview, %u201CCannabis, hemp, marijuana, whatever name you want to use. I was into learning more about it, and trying to understand why the world is not taking advantage of it as a natural resource. It was a big influence on the record, the idea of hemp and growing hemp.%u201D

“The herb,” Marley says, warming up to a recent phone interview, “Cannabis, hemp, marijuana, whatever name you want to use. I was into learning more about it, and trying to understand why the world is not taking advantage of it as a natural resource. It was a big influence on the record, the idea of hemp and growing hemp.”

A year later, fields of hemp are still not growing wild and free, but Marley doesn’t sound like he’s giving up. “It’s almost like a civil rights issue,” he says, chuckling at the comparison. “In the plant world, this plant is like the black people back in the day. I’m standing up for the civil rights of a plant.”

Excerpt: Or, to get back to the plant world, until there is no difference between hemp and corn or any other plant. A father of six children, Marley preaches the equality of plants to his kids in the same way he educates everyone.

“I present it as a plant that God created, that nature created, that, like everything that God created on this planet, has its uses. Everything is part of a bigger ecosystem. We play a part, the ants play a part, the bees, the worm, the fly. The cannabis plant plays a part. It’s just nature.”

Title: Ziggy Remembers Dad for Father's Day

source:essence.com

Excerpt: Marley took a moment from his tour to chat with ESSENCE.com about Father’s Day, what he remembers most about his famous dad, and the most important thing he learned from him.

Excerpt: ESSENCE.com: How will you and your family celebrate Father’s Day this year?
MARLEY: Every day of our lives, our Father is with us. Every day our Father is here with us spiritually anyway. I remember him every day, you know.

Excerpt: ESSENCE.com: What’s your favorite song or album by your father?
MARLEY: It’s hard to say a favorite song of my father’s. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the 70s. The album I used most was Survival during my high school years. That album brought me into the consciousness of Africa, the struggle of Black people.

Title: Ziggy: Let's not be food "lab rats"

source:the root

Excerpt: "If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified," he told The Root. "They might decide they love it. But give us a choice."

Excerpt: Ziggy Marley: It's a tool for a bigger message and a bigger purpose, and it's right up my alley. For me, music, culture and food -- it's a whole-body experience. We live in the culture and we have to eat properly, and food is a part of that. Also, it's a part of how I grew up, with healthy eating and healthy food, in Jamaica.

Excerpt: ZM: At some point in time, the politicians decided this issue with the pharmaceutical guys. They decided genetically modified foods didn't need to be labeled. And the American people are sleeping and need to wake up. The problem is disguised in food products -- nice-looking hamburgers and nice-looking corn.

Title: Cedella Designs Olympic Uniforms For Team Jamaica

source:huffington post

Excerpt: Jamaica's top athletes will be stepping out in style when they land in London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games thanks to their fabulous new uniforms designed by Cedella Marley.

Excerpt: And while the sleek uniforms were created with optimal performance and comfort in mind, they are super stylish to boot. We're loving the flashy prints, flattering silhouettes and saturated Jamaican flag colors represented in every piece.

Title: A Chat with Ziggy

source:glittarazzi.com

Excerpt: Thankfully, Ziggy was able to fit in some time to for a phone call to answer questions from the entire Glittarazzi crew about his new album, the just-released Bob Marley documentary he co-produced, why he created a comic featuring pro-marijuana superhero -- and more! 

Excerpt: I'm father's eldest son and in our culture that caries some responsibility and some burdens, too. So, the fact that I felt a lot of people were telling stories about my father weren't close to my father to really understand him as person and as a human being. So, I wanted to represent him in any other project that would tell his life story. A friend came and said, "You know we should do a definitive piece on Bob that expresses his life in a full way." And, I thought that was a good idea.

Excerpt: The media structure and the commercial structure is not set up in a way that is used to be the voice. Its main objective is to make money and so the voice that question refers to is contrary to that. So, you have to look for it, because it will not be given to you.

Title: Cedella Marley designs Jamaica's Olympics Kit

source:guardian

Excerpt: For the fastest man in the world, he's not the most punctual. But fresh from running his quickest time this year in Rome, Usain Bolt could be forgiven for turning up late to moonlight as a catwalk model and unveil Jamaica's London 2012 kit.

Bolt, who exuded his trademark cool as he acted as a clotheshorse for a kit designed by Bob Marley's daughter

Excerpt: Cedella Marley said the military jackets and fit of the collection had been based on her father's style and the blurring of the lines between sport and music in Jamaican culture – although she admitted he preferred the World Cup to the Olympics. Marley's face features on the shoulder of some of the track jackets. "A little piece of him is going to be in London," she said.

Excerpt: The colours – green, yellow and black – may have been predictable but some of the detail, including the blurred images of two 1948 Jamaican track stars on the vest, were not. Bolt said the kit would inspire him to run faster still: "She's a great designer but also carries on the spirit of our nation through the legacy of the Marley family. It's going to be inspirational to run in London with that energy surrounding me."

Title: House that Marley Built

source:the age

Excerpt: ''It's an aggressive game and I was pretty good at it, or so I was told,'' he says of his days playing for the University of Miami, when he managed to stuff his dreadlocks under his helmet. ''I was a vicious player, so they would do things like sing so I would lose my concentration. One guy on the Alabama team said, 'I don't like Rohan Marley too much but I love his father's music.'''

Excerpt: The garrulous 39-year-old becomes emotional in our interview when talking about his father, and explains how he is determined to keep the legend alive.

Excerpt: For now, he lives ''all over - I live between Jamaica, Miami, New York, Europe, Africa and Brazil'' but holds home-grown ideals that are strong with the Marleys.

This, of course, extends to marijuana. Just don't call the veritable weed ''dope''.

''They are herbs, you know,'' he says. ''The bad rap they give to [the] 'erb - I don't know why they do, because they prescribe it to cancer patients, to AIDS patients and to bulimics. So why is it bad?

'''Erb is not the saviour of life, it is a part of life. It grows from the earth. But anything in excess is dangerous, of course.''

Title: Damian Marley releases video

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: GRAMMY Award-winner, Damian 'Junior Gong' Marley is currently in studio working on material for his fourth solo project — a follow-up to his Welcome to Jamrock.

Excerpt: Marley says he has chosen the Caribbean as the first recipient of the video, but has hopes that it will do well internationally. Set Up Shop is the second video to be released by the deejay since the start of the year, the first being Affairs of the Heart, which was shot by American photographer B+ in South America.

Title: Celebrating Bob Marley's Fashion Legacy

source:aspiring socialite

Excerpt: We also chatted as a group with Bob Marley’s daughter, Cedella Marley, via Skype about her fashion line inspired by her father. Aside from her Dad’s overall message and spirit, what really inspired Cedella in creating her line was the fact that her father was’t trying to be trendy or fashionable, but yet he was.

Excerpt: Cedella Marley’s line is available from Zion Rootswear. She also designed the uniforms for the Jamaican team at the upcoming Olympics. The uniforms have quotes from her father written in the inside so that Bob Marley can always be with them as they compete.

Title: The story of the Rasta woman

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: Rita explained that once she met and fell in love with Bob Marley, her life changed to one of service and dedication to the upliftment of her people through a greater "overstanding" of Rastafari.

Excerpt: Asked about Bob's take on dress, she said he was into modest clothing.
"We had to be elegant, but with principle," she said. "He ordered us to wear nice clothes — 'cover your knees, cover your arms'. We had to present ourselves in the regal, royal way, even though we didn't have money."

Excerpt: "That experience of cutting out certain foods from your diet, even though auntie wanted to feed me on certain things, he (Bob) would say, 'Rita that's not good for you, this is what you should eat'."
However, she credited her aunt for her awareness of Marcus Garvey, which also led to her Rastafari consciousness.
"It was my auntie's desire for me to be so black, in terms of not my colour but my actions until I found Rastafari. I started very early finding principles of life and wellness. I was very aware. My principle was being black and proud. I was very proud to be black and black to be proud."

Title: Rita Marley and Prince Harry

source:ok magazine

Excerpt: Prince Harry greets Bob Marley's widow, Rita, as he visits the Rise Life Youth Project in Kingston, Jamaica on March 6.

Title: In the kitchen with C

source:a nice time

Excerpt: Today Jahkyra and I were craving something sweet. So we opened the cupboard to see how creative we could get with our ingredients. The result…..we combined Marley Coffee with one our favorite vegan brownie recipes. This could be the best recipe yet…..

Excerpt: Ingredients
2 ¼ cups of whole wheat pastry flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
½ cup chocolate chips
½ cup coconut oil
1 ½ cups strong brewed Marley coffee
4 tsp apple cider vinegar
½ cup applesauce
1 cup chopped nuts of your choice (we used macadamia)

Excerpt: Preheat your oven at 350. Combine all the dry ingredients and the chocolate chips and mix well. In another bowl mix all the wet ingredients together. Now pour the wet into the dry ingredients and mix well. grease pan with oil and dust with flour, pour in batter. Bake for about 20-25 minutes or till the top looks cooked. If you want the brownies to be gooey you can leave it slightly undercooked. Be sure to let the brownies cool before cutting.

Title: Students learn about the music

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: On Tuesday, more than one hundred students from a number of Corporate Area schols had the opportunity to witness the process of making music courtesy of Tuff Gong — the record label founded by reggae icon Bob Marley.

Excerpt: Wainwright explained that the tour offered a behind-the-scenes look at the record-making process and the early days of the man who would become international music icon, Bob Marley.
As part of the tour the students were also treated to readings from two Marley-inspired children's books — The Boy from Nine Miles and the recently released One Love.

Title: Students tour Tuff Gong International

source:clinton lindsay

Excerpt: This week, students from six basic and primary schools will spend a day at Tuff Gong International getting a behind the scenes look at the record-making process and the early days of the man who would become international music icon, Bob Marley. Marley’s music and philosophy have earned him larger-than-life status in the eyes of millions of people in Jamaica and all over the world. Yet, his life started out not very different from that of many of the children who will visit the company he founded more than three decades ago. As part of the tour two of Bob’s granddaughters, Donisha Prendergast and Zuri Marley, will read from two Marley-inspired children’s books; The Boy from Nine Miles and the recently released One Love.

Title: Ziggy Marley a hit for 2012

source:barnacle

Excerpt: It is only two months into the year and Ziggy Marley has hit the ground running. The Grammy-winning musician, actor, artiste, activist and humanitarian has been busy with projects spanning human rights, the environment, and entertainment.

Excerpt: Additionally, Ziggy Marley is looking forward to the debut of Marley, a documentary film on the life, music and legacy of Bob Marley, produced by Cowboy Films and Shangri-La Entertainment. The documentary will make its World Premiere at the Berlin Film festival this weekend and its U.S. premiers at the SXSW Film festival and Magnolia Pictures in March and April respectively.

Title: Stephen has private celebrations

source:jamaica gleaner

Excerpt: Marley won the award on Sunday, and on Wednesday night gathered with a few friends and family members at the Bob Marley Museum on Old Hope Rd in St Andrew.

Excerpt: Stephen, son of the legendary Bob Marley, received blessings and inspirations from Ethiopia's Queen Mother Blakely and mother Rita Marley as the three cut the cake in recognition of his achievement.

"What you achieved, Stephen, is a blessing bestowed upon you through your parents. I want to tell you that you not only represent yourself or your family, but the entire nation of Africans," remarked Queen Mother Blakely.

Excerpt: "We grateful for that (win). We give thanks and a just so it go. I want to tell my fans that I appreciate what they are doing for me," he said.

Title: Stephen Marley wins Grammy

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: STEPHEN Marley, son of reggae icon Bob Marley, won the Grammy Award in Best Reggae Album category at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, yesterday.

Excerpt: Speaking with the Observer last week, Marley scoffed at the idea that once any member of his family was up for a nomination, they were an automatic shoe-in.
"Well, dem have a lot to talk 'bout this year. Is two of us this year," he said jokingly, referring to Ziggy's nomination for Wild and Free.

Excerpt: Revelation Part 1: Root of Life contains 14 tracks including singles The Chapel, No Cigarette Smoke, Jah Army, Pale Moonlight, Chapel and Now I Know.
The album is to be followed later this year by Revelation Part 2: Fruits of Life, which Marley said intends to pick up where part one left off.

Title: Who will it be?

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: With Stephen and Ziggy Marleys in contention, many pundits are already speculating it is a foregone conclusion that one of them will take it from the rest of the field comprising Shaggy, Israel Vibration, and Monty Alexander.

Excerpt: Younger of the two Marleys, Stephen, appear poised for the reggae's highest award with Revelation Pt 1: The Root Of Life. Produced on the Tuff Gong/Universal Republic label, the entry is the stronger of the Marleys' offering.
A win for Stephen would give the artiste/producer his third lein on the award as a solo artiste having won in 2008 with Mind Control and in 2010 with the acoustic version of the same album.

Excerpt: Stephen's brother, Ziggy's album Wild and Free is his fourth solo effort and is on the Tuff Gong Worldwide label. It has been described as his most political to date.
The overall theme of the album is a powerful one, as it propels Marley to challenge social injustice along with the political weapons of ignorance and fear.
Among the tracks on the album are title track Wild and Free, Forward to Love, Changes, Personal Revolution and Reggae in My Head.
Ziggy previously won the Best Reggae category album in 2007 with Love Is My Religion.

Title: A chat with Stephen

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: Grammy-Award-winning artiste Stephen Marley is preparing to reap the Fruits of Life -- The follow-up to his successful 2011 release Revelation Part 1: Root of Life.

Excerpt: Marley explains that this two-part musical journey came about as a result of a comment he heard on the state of reggae music, which noted that the music was on the decline.
"This kind a talk anger me, as I know what our artistes and musicians capable of, so I was determined to come up with something that represents the best of reggae music," he declared militantly.

Excerpt: So what can his fans look to in the follow-up? Marley is cautious not to let out too much, but hints that there will be more collaborations -- the first CD contains seven collaborations. However, he allows names like rapper Rakim, deejays Busy Signal and Spragga Benz as well as sibling Damian 'Junior Gong' Marley to slip from his lips.

Title: Ziggy brings Legends of Reggae to Radio

source:jamaica gleaner

Excerpt: Ziggy Marley's Legends of Reggae will feature Marley sharing his unique perspective on music and culture and introducing listeners to his favourite reggae music and sources of inspiration (with some rarities), plucked from his own personal collection.

Excerpt: The show will also include music from the Marley family, including material from Ziggy's most recent solo studio album, Wild and Free, and throwback selections dating back to his days as a Melody Maker.

In addition to Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley's Legends of Reggae will feature other special guests on the show.

"It is my privilege to use this medium to honour the Legends of Reggae and to use it as a vehicle to educate and enlighten listeners," said Marley.

Excerpt: "Hearing songs from his personal collections and his conversations with the greats of reggae is something music fans will treasure, and we were honoured to launch the show on the eve of the birthday of his father, the late Bob Marley."

Ziggy Marley's Legends of Reggae will air the first Saturday of each month at 12 p.m. ET, and will be rebroadcast the next day, Sunday, at 2 p.m. ET.

Title: Bob's daughter sharing One Love

source:south florida times

Excerpt: There are fundamental notions that rely on the simplicity of brotherhood and community and that when implemented, can make a world of difference.

Such was the case when Cedella Marley — whose parents are iconic reggae artist Bob Marley and Rita Marley — set out to write her latest children’s novel, One Love.

“One Love is the song of my father’s that kids most love to sing, but the lyrics are not quite accessible for young readers,” said Marley, who resides in Miami with her husband Dave Minto and three children. “So I adapted them in a way that was understandable, yet still kept the spirit and intention of the song.”

Excerpt: “A new generation can discover my father’s music while also enjoying a beautiful picture book they can share with their family,” said Marley. “We’re all involved in charitable projects and approach everything we do by asking: ‘How is this important?

Excerpt: Surrounding herself with the family and the culture that surrounded her father decades before, Marley and her family have remained a tight-knit group.

“If there’s anything better than hearing a child sing One Love, it’s seeing them read it!” said the proud author. “Hopefully ‘Little C’ — what I call the main character of One Love — will inspire young girls to learn more about reggae and encourage a future star.”

Title: Two Marleys up for reggae Grammy

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: THE name Marley continues to dominate the reggae scene and yesterday's announcement of the nominees for this year's Grammy awards continues the trend.

Excerpt: Two Marleys, Ziggy and Stephen — sons of reggae icon Bob Marley, are among five acts up for the golden gramophone in the category Best Reggae Album. Stephen is nominated for Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life, while for Ziggy it is his project Wild and Free.

In total, Stephen and Ziggy Marley have six Grammy awards.

Title: Sharon Marley led Total Care Learning Center

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: In 12 years, they have catered to more than 400 children, offering day care and after-school services — all the while exposing their young charges to the Montessori method of teaching, which lets them learn at their own pace and largely based on activities they choose.

Excerpt: "We train young women in the field of early childhood education. It's a one-year, HEART-certified training programme. When we started, this subject was not certified nor was it a popular thing for young women to do; gladly I am seeing that change now," Marley, TCLC's founder and managing director, told Career & Education.

Excerpt: Today, the team of 28 staff members — comprised of a house mother and gardener, three administrative persons, a security officer, two kitchen staff, and 18 caregivers, complete with two early childhood teachers — continue to face challenges, more to do with continued competitiveness.
"There are many early childhood institutions around, so we have to ensure that we remain competitive. Finding trained caregivers (is a challenge). It is not the easiest task to find persons who are properly trained and (who) really want to work with children and are understanding," Marley noted.

Title: Damian Marley praises sustainable

source:swu

Excerpt: Like any good rasta, Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley is a lover of nature. And because of that the musician is honored in participating in the SWU Music & Arts Festival 2011 where he’ll be playing on the 12th of November. “It’s a really valid festival”, he sais regarding the sustainable motto that SWU carries. Still not sure about the set list, Damian hesitated, but revealed to Portal SWU that along his own songs, he’ll be playing songs by his father, Bob Marley.

Excerpt: Q:Is it a heavy burden to carry the name Marley? Is there some responsibility involved?

A: I was born with this name, so I don’t know any other life. For me it’s normal. If you were someone who didn’t have the name and for some reason acquired it, it might be weird. But that’s what I do, it isn’t heavy at all.

Excerpt: Q: Have comparisons with your father bothered you much?

A: Not really. I don’t hear many comparisons because our styles are really different. Atleast not as much as my brothers, who have much similar styles. But either I way, I’m not bothered by it since I’m being compared to the best. Bob Marley was an ambassador of reggae music.

Excerpt: Q: Are you a defender of natural causes?

A: As a rasta, my life style is closely related to nature, doing things the natural way and respecting the earth. And it’s a life style that’s been there since the 50s. So our concern with nature isn’t something recent.

Title: Cedella Marley pens another children's book

source:jamaica observer

Excerpt: SINCE its original release more than 30 years ago, Bob Marley's song One Love has been a source of joy, pride, and inspiration for millions people worldwide. Now, Marley's daughter Cedella brings One Love to a new generation in the form of a children's book.

Excerpt: Cedella says, "When my father sang One Love, he felt it all the way — heart and soul, mind and body. He thought a world united by love was possible, and it is. All we've got to do, he said, is 'give a little, take a little.' "

Excerpt: Cedella recently shared her thoughts about the book in an interview with The Children's Book Review, "I'm so happy to have this opportunity to share the message of One Love. I hope it inspires you to live the message of one love and do what you can as a family to create a better world."

Title: Bob Marley's sons take on Africa

source:media update

Excerpt: The series follows the Marley brothers while in South Africa, observing them as they experience life in Johannesburg and travel to remote areas. South Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife.

Excerpt: While on the trip Ziggy was motivated by the prospect of performing with African musicians and the series finale sees him planning and performing a concert in Soweto. The series features Ziggy teaching local musicians to play his own music as well as his father’s classic music and rehearsing for the spontaneous performance. While on the trip Ziggy said “We are trying to perform a concert, for free, in Soweto because I want to show my respect to Soweto and the struggle. We are trying to do it on our own, guerilla style. Reggae music is free music. Like my father said nobody has ownership on it. It’s like oxygen, like the wind, like the rain”.

Title: Marleys swop reggae for road trip

source:iol

Excerpt: This has been the story of all of Marley’s sons, but most of them chose to make music anyway. While they may not have surpassed the father’s musical accomplishments, the Marley brothers have ensured that the family name is still held in high regard through their professional and personal lives.

Excerpt: With the show premiering on Discovery, Ziggy took time out to speak to Tonight about it.

“All three of us are fans of motorcycles and riding a motorcycle… the experience is very mental. It’s very conscious. You have to be aware and we like that, you know. We did the trip on bikes just to be open to the elements and to the people,” he explained.

Excerpt: “It was my first time to South Africa and I was kind of, I wouldn’t say surprised, but I felt very good about what I saw because before we made the trip I remember there was some sceptical news about how you need to get a vest for knife attacks and things like that because South Africa is so dangerous. So I think this film will show Africa in a light that I think a lot of people who have never been here before don’t really know of, and I think that’s good for Africa,” he said.

Excerpt: “The trip showed different sides of us I think, because look, I like roughing it, but Rohan ended up driving in a Rolls-Royce at one point. I thought we were supposed to be on bikes, roughing it, but he would rather be in a Rolls-Royce. So I gave him some attitude about that, you know, but I mean, we have differences, but we get on together well,” he said, defining the typical sibling rivalries.