Popular Artists

There were several popular artists in the reggae genre, only a few that have said to made it through all of it's transgressions. One of the most popular artists of the reggae genre of all time was Bob Marley. He was the lead vocalist and bass guitarist of the group Bob Marley and the Wailers. He is accredited to helping spread Jamaican music all over the world and also bringing the Rastafari Movement to a worldwide audience. He was a political activist to the fullest and was most well known for such songs as; I shot the Sheriff, One Love, Three Little Birds, Jamming and Buffalo Soldiers. His album Legend, released in 1984, three years after he was killed is the only record in history that has gone platinum over ten times and selling over twenty million records.

Peter Tosh met up with Bob Marley in the early 1960's while taking lessons from a vocalist. They would often go to a Jamaican slum known as Trenchtown and jam together. Showing a deep interest in the Ratafarian Movement, Peter Tosh showed Marley the ways of it when he returned home from America. Tosh soon became a Caribbean superstar when he switched up the type of music he was playing and started leaning more toward a political standing. Not unlike his close friend Bob Marley, Tosh saw an untimely death as his career started to skyrocket. While at home, on September 11, 1987, a three man gang entered his home demanding money and when he told them he did not have any, the leader of the three, Dennis Lobban, a man that Tosh tried to help find work after a long jail sentence, shot him in the heard twice, killing him instantly.