Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Conscious party
  US 23 04/23/1988 (42 weeks)
One Bright Day (and the Melody Makers)
  CH 22nd 08/27/1989 (4 weeks)
  US 26th 08/12/1989 (18 weeks)
Jahmekya ' (and the Melody Makers)
  CH 24 06/23/1991 (3 weeks)
  US 63 06/15/1991 (19 weeks)
Joy and Blues (and the Melody Makers)
  US 178 07/17/1993 (2 weeks)
Free Like We Want 2 B (and the Melody Makers)
  CH 48 08/13/1995 (3 weeks)
  US 170 07/29/1995 (5 weeks)
Dragonfly
  CH 97 06/01/2003 (1 week)
  US 138 05/03/2003 (8 weeks)
Love is my religion
  CH 35 07/23/2006 (7 weeks)
Family time
  US 149 05/23/2009 (2 weeks)
Wild and Free
  CH 83 07/03/2011 (3 weeks)
  US 152 07/02/2011 (1 week)
Fly Rasta
  US 129 05/03/2014 (1 week)
Ziggy Marley
  US 99 06/11/2016 (1 week)
Rebellion Rises
  CH 59 May 27, 2018 (1 week)
  US 193 02.06.2018 (1 week)
Singles
Tomorrow People (and the Melody Makers)
  UK 22nd 06/11/1988 (10 weeks)
  US 39 May 14, 1988 (13 weeks)
Look Who's Dancing (and the Melody Makers)
  UK 65 09/23/1989 (1 week)
Good Time (and the Melody Makers)
  US 85 09/21/1991 (5 weeks)

Ziggy Marley (born October 17, 1968 in Kingston ; actually David Nesta Marley ) is a Jamaican reggae musician and songwriter . He is the son of Bob Marley and Rita Marley . Together with his siblings Cedella , Sharon and Stephen he forms the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers .

Life

Career

David Nesta Marley grew up in Trenchtown , a borough of Kingston . There he received guitar and drum lessons from his father at an early age. He was also a regular part of the studio recordings of his father and his band The Wailers . In 1979, when he was 11 years old, his father Bob took him and his siblings Cedella, Stephen and Sharon into the studio to record the father-written song "Children Playing in the Streets". These four siblings also founded the Melody Makers. Six years later they produced their first LP Play the Game Right with their record label EMI . Due to the low sales figures, EMI wanted to continue producing Ziggy Marley as a solo artist, so that in 2003 his first solo album, Dragonfly , was released. Love Is My Religion followed in 2006 . Ziggy Marley composed almost all of the songs himself and played most of the instruments.

On January 15, 2013, the live album In Concert was released , for which he also reinterpreted Is This Love and War by his father. On April 11th 2014 he will release his fifth solo studio album "Fly Rasta".

David Nesta Marley got his nickname "Ziggy" from his father Bob Marley immediately after his birth. Ziggy's twisted foot reminded Bob of juggling a soccer ball, which his wife and friends said he was good at. In Jamaican slang, they called out "Ziggy, Bob, Ziggy!"

family

Ziggy Marley has three siblings, seven half-siblings, and one adoptive sister. The best known are Cedella and Stephen , Stephanie and Sharon (adopted), who founded the band Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers with Ziggy, but also Damian , Julian , Ky-Mani and Rohan , who are more or less successfully established in the music business .

Ziggy Marley is married to Orly Agai Marley , Vice President of the William Morris Agency , and has four children, a daughter and three sons.

He also has three other children from a previous marriage, a son and two daughters.

Discography (selection)

Albums with the Melodymakers

  • 1985: Play the Game Right
  • 1986: Hey World
  • 1988: Conscious Party
  • 1989: One Bright Day
  • 1991: Jahmekya
  • 1993: Joy and Blues
  • 1995: Free Like We Want 2 B
  • 1997: Fallen Is Babylon
  • 1997: The Best Of (1988-1993)
  • 1998: Reggae Is Now
  • 1999: Spirit of Music
  • 2000: Live

Solo albums

  • 2003: Dragonfly
  • 2006: Love Is My Religion
  • 2009: Family Time
  • 2011: Wild and Free
  • 2013: In Concert
  • 2014: Fly Rasta
  • 2016: Ziggy Marley
  • 2018: Rebellion Rises
  • 2019: Road to Rebellion (Volume 1)

Soundtracks

Ziggy Marley's songs have been used as the soundtrack in some films. He sang his father's song Three Little Birds with Sean Paul in the movie Big Sharks - Little Fish and got a speaking role in the original version. He also had a success with the Melody Makers in the film Men at Work from 1990 with Give a Little Love . The song Drive (Original: The Cars ) can be heard in the film 50 First Dates and it also provided a soundtrack for the successful series Charmed - Magic Witches . In 1997 his song "Tipsy Daizy" was featured in the blockbuster Anaconda . His song "Love Power" was used at the end of Muppets - Die Schatzinsel . In addition, his song True to Myself can be heard in the fourteenth episode of the eighth season of Scrubs .

Awards

In 1989, 1990 and 1998 he won the Grammy Award for the best reggae recording with the Melody Makers . In 2007 he won his first solo Grammy with his album Love Is My Religion in the category Best Reggae Album. For his album Family Time he received a Grammy in 2010 in the category "Best Musical Album for Children". In 2012 “Wild and Free” was nominated in the category Best Reggae Album. The live album In Concert and his sixth solo album Fly Rasta earned him two more reggae album Grammys in 2014 and 2015, respectively . In 2017 he received another Grammy in the “Best Reggae Album” category for his album “Ziggy Marley”.

Other Projects

Ziggy Marley is a member of other bands, including the groups Brothers Keepers and The Melody Makers .

Others

  • He has a guest appearance in the first season of the series " Parker Lewis " in the episode Mikey Randall - Superstar . He is mentioned in other episodes as well, as Parker's friend Mikey Randall is a huge Ziggy Marley fan.
  • Ziggy Marley designed a t-shirt for H & M's anti-AIDS campaign that reads “Love Is My Religion”.

Web links

Commons : Ziggy Marley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: CH UK US
  2. ↑ a b US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
  3. ↑ Review at Allmusic.com.Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ Chris Salewicz, Bob Marley The untold story, p. 146
personal data
SURNAME Marley, Ziggy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marley, David Nesta (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican reggae musician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica