Kizz Daniel, the buga of the stars and the curse of fame, By Festus Adedayo
Kizz Daniel, the buga of the stars and the curse of fame, By Festus Adedayo
Kizz Daniel
In this piece, however, what interests me is why and how fame became a huge graveyard filled with the skeletons of once-polished stars, whose prematurely killed fame resulted from their empty acts of buga and of indiscretion. That aside from their inability to handle the glowing fire of their successes… in his track “Zion Train,” Marley warns superstars not to get lost in the cryptic maze of stardom. "Don't win the world and don't lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold," he advises.
Asked to write an essay for Scott Allison's "Heroes & Villains" class psychology professor at the University of Richmond, Virginia, Corinne Devaney chose Bob Marley. Marley was a mulatto born in a crime-infested slum in the neighborhood of St. Anne, Jamaica. He was the product of an affair between a black mother, then 18, Miss Cedella Malcom, and Norval Sinclair Marley, a white father from Crowborough, East Sussex, UK. The eldest of the Marleys was then about 60 years old. Sinclair and Cedella had met and then married while she was working as a supervisor on a Jamaican plantation. Norval later abandoned Cedella and her son, after his less than illustrious World War II military expedition to Jamaica, and died in 1955 when Bob was ten years old.
Despite the horror of his upbringing, Marley made a heroic transformation from slum to pinnacle of stardom, becoming one of the best-selling global artists of all time. Her signature look was a bizarre assortment of unkempt dreadlocks. This has been seasoned with an anti-imperialist, pan-Africanist and ascetic-prescribing Rastafari religion that worships the despotic Ras Tafari Makonnen, otherwise known as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as “King of Kings, Lord of Lords and conquering lion of the tribe”. of Judah. It was woven around an obsessive fascination with smoking marijuana as a sacramental object of religious worship. Marley died in May 1981 while battling melanoma.
While the Rastafari religion, whose main precepts are taken from the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, has prevented Jamaican music stars from exhibiting odd traits associated with music stars around the world, it is not. the same elsewhere.
After being rejected in an audition by London-based Decca Records on January 1, 1962, after performing 15 songs in about an hour, Decca's appraisal report was that the guitar group, The Beatles, was not up to it. Indeed, Decca has declared that he does not see a future in the group. However, a few years later, the Beatles became very famous, dominating the world. He has sold 1.6 billion singles and 177 million albums in the United States, with 600 million albums sold worldwide, and 21 Billboard Hot 100 number one hits, "the most ever." recorded by a group".
Apparently basking in the euphoria of this stardom, in March 1966, band member John Lennon, in an interview with Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, remarked that "Christianity will go. It will fade and shrink… We're more popular than Jesus now – I don't know which will come first, rock and roll or Christianity. Soon after, the rock and roll band, composed de Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr break up and Lennon himself is shot...
In this piece, however, what interests me is why and how fame became a huge graveyard filled with the skeletons of once-polished stars, whose prematurely killed fame resulted from their empty acts of buga and of indiscretion. That aside from their inability to handle the glowing fire of their successes… in his track “Zion Train,” Marley warns superstars not to get lost in the cryptic maze of stardom. "Don't win the world and don't lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold," he advises.
Asked to write an essay for Scott Allison's "Heroes & Villains" class psychology professor at the University of Richmond, Virginia, Corinne Devaney chose Bob Marley. Marley was a mulatto born in a crime-infested slum in the neighborhood of St. Anne, Jamaica. He was the product of an affair between a black mother, then 18, Miss Cedella Malcom, and Norval Sinclair Marley, a white father from Crowborough, East Sussex, UK. The eldest of the Marleys was then about 60 years old. Sinclair and Cedella had met and then married while she was working as a supervisor on a Jamaican plantation. Norval later abandoned Cedella and her son, after his less than illustrious World War II military expedition to Jamaica, and died in 1955 when Bob was ten years old.
Despite the horror of his upbringing, Marley made a heroic transformation from slum to pinnacle of stardom, becoming one of the best-selling global artists of all time. Her signature look was a bizarre assortment of unkempt dreadlocks. This has been seasoned with an anti-imperialist, pan-Africanist and ascetic-prescribing Rastafari religion that worships the despotic Ras Tafari Makonnen, otherwise known as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as “King of Kings, Lord of Lords and conquering lion of the tribe”. of Judah. It was woven around an obsessive fascination with smoking marijuana as a sacramental object of religious worship. Marley died in May 1981 while battling melanoma.
While the Rastafari religion, whose main precepts are taken from the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, has prevented Jamaican music stars from exhibiting odd traits associated with music stars around the world, it is not. the same elsewhere.
After being rejected in an audition by London-based Decca Records on January 1, 1962, after performing 15 songs in about an hour, Decca's appraisal report was that the guitar group, The Beatles, was not up to it. Indeed, Decca has declared that he does not see a future in the group. However, a few years later, the Beatles became very famous, dominating the world. He has sold 1.6 billion singles and 177 million albums in the United States, with 600 million albums sold worldwide, and 21 Billboard Hot 100 number one hits, "the most ever." recorded by a group".
Apparently basking in the euphoria of this stardom, in March 1966, band member John Lennon, in an interview with Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, remarked that "Christianity will go. It will fade and shrink… We're more popular than Jesus now – I don't know which will come first, rock and roll or Christianity. Soon after, the rock and roll band, composed de Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr break up and Lennon himself is shot...
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