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The Smile Jamaica Concert was a reggae concert held on 5 December 1976 at the National Heroes Park in Kingston, Jamaica, aimed at countering political violence. Bob Marley had agreed to perform, but, two days before the concert, he was shot in his home. He recovered and, with The Wailers, played a 90-minute set for the 80,000 people in attendance.
At 8:30pm, on December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica Concert, seven men armed with guns raided Marley's house at 56 Hope Road. Marley and his band were on break from rehearsal. Marley's wife, Rita, was shot in the head in her car in the driveway. The gunmen shot Marley in the chest and arm.
Robert Nesta Marley OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae , he fused elements of reggae, ska and rocksteady and was renowned for his distinctive vocal and songwriting style.
A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. [1] It was published in 2014 by Riverhead Books. [2] The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath, through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s, and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.
In 2002 the Marley family released the concert on the reissued Rastaman Vibration: Deluxe Edition, with a previously unreleased single "Smile Jamaica". On 24 June 2003 Tuff Gong released the complete concert, including the previously unreleased twenty-eight-minute encore , containing "Positive Vibration" and medley " Get Up, Stand Up / No More ...
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Smile Jamaica is a Jamaican-produced television show that is broadcast on Television Jamaica (TVJ) [1] on weekdays from 6:00 am – 8:30 am (Jamaican time). [2] It is the premier morning show for the network providing programming of news, information and entertainment.
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