Julian Marley – son of the Legendary Bob Marley, approached the One Love Festival expressing his interest in performing at this year’s event which celebrates his father’s infamous 1978 One Love Concert. It is with great honour that on behalf of the One Love Festival Team I can confirm Julian Marley will be playing an exclusive Saturday night set on our One Love Stage,
Julian Marley has been blessed by his father’s great talent, from a young age music has been his life, at the age of only five he cut his first demo tape, recording a version of his father's classic composition, "Slave Driver," at the Marley family's Tuff Gong studio in Kingston. Since that auspicious beginning, Julian has devoted himself to a life in music, mastering a variety of instruments and writing songs that reflect his dedication to spiritual upliftment and social change. Three albums later Julian has toured the world, both as a solo performer backed by his Uprising Band and as a member of Ghetto Youths International, a musical collective whose core members are Julian and his brothers, Stephen and Damian. Stephen and Damian Marley have both contribute to his new album “Awake” that Julian will perform with the Uprising Band at this years One Love Festival alongside some of his fathers Classics in the Spirit of his father Bob Marley.
One Love Festival was born as the UK’s 30th Anniversary celebration of Bob Marleys famous 1978 One Love Concert. Where Thirty-two years ago Bob Marley performed at the first One Love Peace Concert in Kingston. It was held during a political civil war between the Jamaican Labour Party and the People's National Party and it peaked during Marley & The Wailers' performance of Jammin, when the singer joined the hands of political rivals, Michael Manley (PNP) and Edward Seaga (JLP) accompanied by a flash of lighting and clap of thunder from the heavens. Following the concert the opposing factions having seen that their leaders weren't hell bent on killing each other cooled down the conflict and eased the erupting civil war.
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