the spirit of Jacob Marley, who is the dead business partner of Scrooge in the book A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. He appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve, and tells him that he will be visited by three spirits
A fictional man who is a character of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, and appears as a ghost to warn his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge against being greedy and selfish
Marley's music, an amalgamation of American, African, and Jamaican styles, reflected his Rastafarian beliefs in universal peace, love, equality, and hope and of unification and empowerment for blacks. Since his death he has attained near-legendary stature. His wife, Rita, and son Ziggy also recorded successfully
a Jamaican singer and songwriter who, with his group The Wailers, helped to make reggae music popular. He was a rastafarian, and wore his hair in dreadlocks. His songs, which include No Woman, No Cry and Redemption Song, often have a political message (1945-81). orig. Robert Nesta Marley born Feb. 6, 1945, Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jam. died May 11, 1981, Miami, Fla., U.S. Jamaican singer and songwriter. Raised in the Kingston slum known as Trenchtown, Marley apprenticed himself to a welder. In the early 1960s he formed the Wailers with Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingston (later called Bunny Wailer), and others. In the 1970s they became the first international reggae stars with releases such as Catch a Fire (1973), Exodus (1977), and Uprising (1980). He died of cancer at age