Ziggy Marley
MY LIFE IN MUSIC
Ziggy Marley
The Jamaican melody maker on the records that give him positive vibrations: “I was being revolutionised by my father’s album!”
INTERVIEW: SAM RICHARDS. PHOTO: TUFF GONG WORLDWIDE/ZACH WEINBERG
NAT ‘KING’ COLE
Unforgettable CAPITOL, 1952
That’s one of the first records I can remember. Sometimes we spend time with our grand-aunt, and she like that type of singing. So I think the first time I was exposed to Nat ‘King’ Cole was her playing some of his records, and it did get my attention. It has been a part of my consciousness from the first time I heard his voice. I never heard anybody sing like that! I’m in Jamaica, I don’t hear that type of singing. In my house, with my mother and father, we didn’t have Nat ‘King’ Cole. He wasn’t a constant in my life – I heard him when I was younger, then him disappear, so when I got old, I started looking for some Nat ‘King’ Cole music. He was just soulful.