Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Train Robert Nesta Marley was born on 6 February 1945 in Nine Miles, Jamaica as a son of an English marine-officer and a native Jamaican. Bob Marley loved the fast life in the big city, as well as the music of Fats Domino and Ray Charles he heard on the radio. At the age of 16, Bob wanted to record an album. Like other Jamaican kids he looked to music as an escape of the tough life in the city. Bob Marley acted as the leader of the band and he wrote most of the material.