His talent for composing, strength of spirit and indifference to certain slights of black Jamaicans because of his mulatto condition, provided the artist with an armor, which could not be other than through music, making him a global figure of popular culture.

Robert Nesta Marley, his full name, is considered the best known and most respected interpreter of reggae – a genre declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco in 2018 – and the greatest representative of his country in the Rastafarian culture.

The position always defended by Marley steeped dignity and expressed not being ashamed of his racial mixture, -son of Afro-Jamaican and natural white of English descent-, nevertheless he identified himself as black, being the only part of that inherited mixture for which he showed interest.

With a vision much broader than that of simple social canons, the performer managed to raise the voices of thousands of marginalized groups and created songs that became anthems, such as “No woman, no cry”, incorporated into the register of the 500 best songs of all time, according to the Rolling Stone magazine.

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