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...Marley restaurant? Strange. But listen to the music. "There's a natural mystic blowing through...
...coolest new additions to the Marley catalog is the just-released CD Chant Down Babylon (Tuff Gong/Island). The album features duets with Marley and some of today's best hip-hop performers, including Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...
...Marley's musical message is having no trouble finding new audiences. Legend, the Jamaican singer-songwriter's greatest-hits album, is, after 15 years and 10 million copies sold, still on the Billboard charts. Songs of Freedom, a four-CD boxed set of Marley's music, has been reissued after selling out its initial limited-edition run of 1 million copies. Chris Blackwell, head of the multimedia-entertainment company Palm Pictures and the man who signed Marley to Island Records, says Marley's lasting appeal is rooted in his approach to music. "His music was never overexposed at the time...
...Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at age 36, brought the Third World to the whole world. The dirt streets of the Jamaican slum of Trench Town, the myths and tales of the Caribbean, the wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here...
...wide range of young performers, from Rage Against the Machine to Wyclef Jean, cite Marley as a role model. His legacy is a lot to live up to. Stephen Marley, who performs alongside his brother Ziggy in the reggae band the Melody Makers, says he has come to terms with it. "The thing is you have to accept that these songs are yours," he says. "Me having kids now, I know that any song I have is really my children's. Like my shoes, like my pants. Once they can fit in them, it's theirs. So that...