![]() ![]() “In terms of our mindset, I grew up in those years searching for spiritual enlightening, so awards and material things were not something that we thought of as, ‘wow, that solidifies us or makes us mean more.’ That’s just not where my mind was or where I wanted to be. “It’s cool that we got the Grammys and stuff, but we don’t talk about it that way,” Marley said. They won for “Conscious Party” (1988) and “One Bright Day” (1989), were nominated for “Jahmekya” (1991), “Joy and Blues” (1993) and “Free Like We Want 2 Be” (1995), and then won again for “Fallen is Babylon” (1997). When his dad tragically died at age 36 in 1981, Ziggy began filling in with his father’s band, The Wailers, while his sibling group The Melody Makers earned their first Grammy nod for the album “Play the Game Right” (1985). In Jamaica, you are who you are, whether you’re famous or not, whether you’re rich or poor, you just are who you are.” The idea of the limelight is more of an American concept than a Jamaican thing. We didn’t think about it a lot in those days. My father wrote that first song, ‘Children Playing in the Streets,’ he wrote that and played on it too. “It wasn’t something like, ‘Let’s do it,’ it just happened because we grew up around it. “We just grew up in that naturally,” Marley said. ![]() In 1979, 11-year-old Ziggy teamed up with his talented siblings to form The Melody Makers, recording their breakthrough song “Children Playing in the Streets,” written by their iconic father. David Bowie and me talked about it before he passed away too, because he was asking me the same question and I told him the story and he was like, ‘Oh, OK.’ I get that question all the time, but in Jamaica in those days, a ‘ziggy’ was a small joint.” “It was before ‘Ziggy Stardust,’ the David Bowie thing. “My father just called me ‘Ziggy’ - in Jamaica, we have nicknames for everybody,” Marley said. He changed his name from David to “Ziggy” before David Bowie released his 1972 album “Ziggy Stardust.” It was the first time I saw snow, the first time I saw what Christmas was, so being in Delaware was a very life-changing experience for a young kid like me.” We lived there with my grandmother, my father’s mother. ![]() “I think my father and mother were trying to find some work to make some money to send us to school and stuff like that. “I went to school in Wilmington maybe a year, we didn’t stay long,” Marley said. Love is my religion.”īorn in 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica, Ziggy famously grew up in Trench Town, but you might not know that he also spent time here in the “Delmarva” region, attending elementary school in Wilmington, Delaware. We’re singing about freedom, we’re singing about rights, we’re singing about justice, we’re singing about revolution, we’re singing about nature, we’re singing about the environment, we’re singing about love. “We do music with a purpose,” Marley said. Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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