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Bret Michaels (wearing Bob Marley Tee)and Casey James started singing Poison’s “Every "Rose Has Its Thorn"
Bret backstage with his "One Love Bob Marley" T-shirt
The plaque, which is on loan to the Smithsonian Institute for the next three years, was given to Bob Marley for selling 100,000 units of the Survival album in Italy.
In addition to the plaque, the display features items from other musicians including Miriam Makeba, Afrika Bambaataa and Mongo Santamaria. After the Smithsonian display ends, the Apollo exhibit will travel to the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit and then the Museum of the City of New York. The plan is to have the plaque at the Bob Marley Museum in Jamaica upon its return from the Smithsonian.
This latest laudatory acknowledgement of Bob Marley's global significance has been a street in Nigeria being named after him in January of this year in celebrations of its 48th year of independence.
Marley has been placed in the company of Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and sport heroes Jay Jay Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo and Mary Onyali, all of whom have streets in Nigeria with their names.
It is also understood that the film, Africa Unite, is having a premiere at the Real Life Pan-African Documentary Film Festival being held in Ghana from May 16 - 20.
Africa Unite has been rated a masterfully executed film by Stephanie Black that is at once a concert tribute, the Marley family travelogue, and humanitarian documentary, igniting the screen with the spirit of the world-renowned reggae icon.
One of the founders of the festival, Awam Amkpa, who is also a professor of Drama and Film at the New York University in the USA, is reported to have said that the festival was to inspire Africans to document their own histories while exchanging film vocabularies, methods and contexts with film-makers from other continents.
DENYQUE was invited to participate in the Female 100m race which also included Ann-Merita Golding, Amelia "Milk" Sewell, D'Angel and Timberlee. The Supεяwomαn blasted herself down the tracks, leaving one of her competitors falling to the track and into "Pieces" and others "Can't Breathe". She finished in first place ahead, far ahead of second place Ann-Merita Golding and D'Angel in third place.
DENYQUE is also racing up the UK Reggae Top Ten Charts where her single "That Place" produced by Don Corleon on the Feelings Riddim is currently bubbling hot at Number Two (#2). The chart is aired weekly on Diverse FM located in Luton, United Kingdom and is hosted by Lady Diamond every Wednesday. The song was released on January 22, 2010 and in less than a month, the song is at the top of the charts and aiming at the Number One (#1) spot.
The Supεяwomαn continues to strengthen her stride within the music business and is expected to surpass many goals and expectations in the upcoming months. With new singles, upcoming performances and a tour of the United States in her wake, DENYQUE is aiming to the stars through music.
Instead of doing the typical bio and info that just about anyone reading this can Google and find out for themselves, I am just gonna provide some links so you can visit some Bob Marley official sites. Seen?
I’ve done many things that I am not proud of. I have turned what was largely a destructive lifestyle and turned it into a constructive one. I chose to share my story with the hope that many may be moved to something more positive by the end of the book.
I partnered with a gentleman, Dr Farrah Gray, who I grew to have a great deal of respect for. My journey writing the book was initially very easy and I thought we had built a relationship of respect if nothing else.
During the final edit of the book, I spoke with my sister, Cedella, and I advised Dr Farrah Gray that some changes had to be made and until the changes were made, I was not willing to do any promotion for the book. I could NOT support and promote something that is not 100% mine and that I believe in. Dr Gray apparently thought that by turning something that was written from the heart into something seemingly malicious was going to benefit him in some way.
I did not mean to hurt anyone... The book was only to tell my story, as I know it... What I was led to believe while growing up. The book was not an attack on my family! I love my brothers and sisters more than anyone can know.
I did not expect that Dr Gray would have been unprofessional and malicious in twisting my words or using things that were discussed in confidence to create controversy in an attempt to sell a book.
I did NOT authorize him to make any changes to the cover of my book nor do I condone any of the captions he has written!
At this point I do not know if the content of the book has been altered in any way due to the fact that I have not communicated with Dr Farrah Gray in over a month because he has neither accepted nor returned any of my phone calls.
Marley Brothers (L-R) Ky-Mani, Julian, Ziggy, Damian and Stephen.
Ghetto Youth’s International, organizers of the annual Bob Marley concert Smile Jamaica, have announced that the 2010 staging of the celebration of the King of Reggae’s birth would have to be called off, due to numerous circumstances.Smile Jamaica spokesperson Norman Bryan, said yesterday that while the organisation was looking forward to staging the concert after “there are some extenuating circumstances that just cannot be ignored, and there’s no way we could proceed with the concert bearing them in mind.”
He added that the Marley family will still be celebrating Bob’s birthday and honouring his legacy in private.
Bryan also said that the Ghetto Youth’s International would be redoubling its efforts to make a 2011 staging possible.
“Ghetto Youths International will continue spreading the message of the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley, and we will be definitely putting our heads together to make 2011 the year Smile Jamaica returns from its hiatus.”
Smile Jamaica saw its historic birth in December of 1976, when it was held at the National Heroes Park in Kingston. The event took place a mere two days after gunmen almost ended Bob Marley’s life, and he was recuperating in the Blue Mountains. It was there that Marley magic reigned supreme yet again, as an injured Bob agreed to perform one song for the 80,000-strong throng of patrons. That one song turned into a magical 90 minute performance with Marley and the Wailers.
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