Text Genres: Obituary
Κειμενικά Είδη: ΝΕΚΡΟΛΟΓΙΑ
______________________, who died on 11 May, ____, aged 36 was not just an accomplished and influential musician; he was the first ambassador of _____ music.
In his 10 years of international fame, he almost single-handedly introduced ______ music to a worldwide audience, and with it, the first knowledge of the ___________ faith that he followed and always espoused in his music.
______________________ achieved the rare feat of being a popular figure, feted by the fashionable but never compromising his credibility as a spokesman for a generation of young blacks. ______________________’s music has grown in popularity in the years since his death and Time magazine voted his ________ album as the greatest of the 20th century.
______________ was born on 6 February, 1945, in Nine Miles, ________, son of _____________ and his wife Cedella ______. _________ was white and a British soldier aged 50 when his son was born; Ms _______ was an 18-year-old ________. Some reports say _______ abandoned his family; others that he was away on business. In either case, a young _____ saw his father rarely; dying when he was 10.
In ____ he and his mother moved to _________ and he made friends with Bunny __________ (later known as __________) and his family. ___ and ______, like other young ____________, found life tough in __________ and escaped reality by writing songs.
He left school at 14 to be an apprentice welder. In his free time, he and ______ made music with Joe Higgs, a singer and devout ____________, and met another would-be musician Peter McIntosh, later known as Peter Tosh.
In _____, ________ released his first singles, ________ and _____________________
under the pseudonym _________ Martell. Neither was a success but he pressed on and formed a ska group called the Teenagers with ____________, Pete McIntosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith. They changed their name to _________________, then ____________________, and finally _____________.
Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith later left, leaving the core trio of _____________, _______________, and Pete McIntosh. He took on the role of leader and singer, and main songwriter. The ska beat slowed down and became __________.
In _____, ______________________ and ___________ signed with Island Records and the first album, __________, was a worldwide success in _______. The _____ follow-up, ________, which
included ___________, which Eric Clapton turned into a single hit, raising __________’s respect. ________-mania even spread to the United States, where Rolling Stone magazine named _____ and _________ band of the year in ____. The original _________ broke up in ____. The next year, he had his biggest hit with ____________ from the Natty Dread album.
In July _____, ________ was diagnosed with cancer in a football wound on his right big toe. Amputation gave the only hope of arresting the condition but ________ refused, believing as a ___________ that the body must be “whole”. The cancer then spread to his brain, lungs, liver, and stomach and he collapsed while jogging in Central Park, New York. He was flying to __________ to die when he became increasingly ill and the plane landed in Florida so he could receive urgent medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami. He was given a state funeral in __________, and buried in a crypt near his birthplace with his Gibson Les Paul guitar.
______________________ had 13 children: three with his wife Rita Anderson (whom he married in 1966), two adopted from Ms Anderson’s previous relationships, and the another eight with other women. His final words to his son ______ were “________can’t buy ______”.
