![]() ![]() ![]() Risking their lives, both courageously appeared in concert, in spite of their injuries. Bob was shot in the arm and Rita was grazed by a bullet to the head. She was beside Bob three days before the Smile Jamaica Concert 1976, when they were both wounded in an ambush at the rehearsal studio (56 Hope Road - now the Bob Marley Museum). Rita was ever-present throughout the stages of Bob's career - the victories as well as the trials. Their horizons quickly expanded to the world stage and the songs of love, hope, unity, and struggle became the mothership that transported reggae music, the message of Rastafari, and the culture of the people of Jamaica to the four corners of the earth. By the early seventies, they developed the I-Threes, Jamaica's three leading female singers (Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths), to provide support harmonies for Bob Marley & the Wailers, who had become the first reggae act to garnish an international record contract. Music became their bond.Įnduring the hardships of the initial years of the Jamaican music industry together, Bob and Rita never turned back. She would soon make the acquaintance of a local Trenchtown youth, Robert Nesta Marley, who was also answering a musical c alling. It was in the early sixties that her musical career began as a vocalist with the all-female singing group, The Soulettes, who have appeared with the Four Tops, Johnny Nash and numerous other stars. Rita has been a principal figure on the music scene for over 30 years, when the foundation of contemporary Jamaican music was formed, and has maintained a prominent role. It is no coincidence that the talented young Rita Anderson, born in Cuba and raised from an early age in Trenchtown, was destined to become an integral part of the musical Marley family. For as far as dance songs are about any thing but dancing, that is.News Bio Photos Videos Releases Music DatesĪll over the world, the Marley name has become synonymous with reggae music, rastafari and Jamaica. So the track Jump a Little Hi-er is not just the only track to sample the vocals of Rita Marley, it’s the only one which is (arguably) the only one not about smoking marijuana. Sizzla sampled the song too in 2005, but his track Smoke Di Herb, but his track only features the music, not the lyrics. ![]() While you’d expect them to take a literal sample of the track, they actually rapped the lyrics themselves in I Wanna Get High from 1993. Oddly enough, the track has also been sampled by Cypress Hill. Turns out a simple Google query for the lyrics gave a result: Rita Marley (the widow of Bob) put out the track One Draw in 1981 and that’s where the sample is from. When I submitted the fact that 2 Hi use a sample from the Jungle Brothers in the 1992 track Jump a Little Hi-er, one of the moderators wondered out loud where another sample in that track with the lyrics “ I wanna get high” at the beginning came from. I frequently use as a source, but I also try to give back finds not listed on the site. ![]()
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