Two days after they tried to assassinate him, on December 5, 1976, Bob Marleyconvinced that music could change the world, got on stage and stopped being human to become a legend.

It was the 70s and Jamaica was immersed in poverty and inequality. The Cold War gave way to a war between the socialist left, in the Government, and the capitalist right, in the opposition, while rival gangs Defenders of both terrified Jamaicans.

Then, the Government organized a concert for peace and invited Bob Marley, a Rastafari and self-confessed apolitical, trusting that his figure would unite Jamaicans. On December 3, 1976, seven people came to his house to kill him to him, to his wife and to everyone who was there. Without saying a word, they shot them all: he He was shot in the chest and his wife was shot in the head.. They all survived.

Fearing a second, more certain attack, the artist moved to London and his home was the world for the next five years, until died of cancer in 1981.An acral lentiginous melanoma that appeared under a toenail and was attributed to an injury playing soccer. It was not treated. I was 36 years old when he died.

Now, after a casting around the world To find the ideal actor, this Friday the premiere of what aims to be a global blockbuster in the wake of the Freddie Mercury and Elton John films and which is titled ‘Bob Marley: One Love‘. And it was already taking a life like this for cinema to bring it to the big screen.