Post by kaya on Dec 15, 2008 15:51:12 GMT -5
Marley son carries on legacy
Stephen Marley has just released an acoustic version of 'Mind Control.'
Musician Stephen Marley, who carries on his father's legacy from his Ghetto Youth studio and home in South Miami, has just released an acoustic version of Mind Control, his Grammy winning 2007 solo debut. The soulful Mind Control Acoustic, featuring Damian ''Jr. Gong'' Marley and Spragga Benz, is available on iTunes. We talked with the 36-year-old producer.
So why do you and so much of the Marley clan -- including brothers Ziggy, Damian and Julian -- live in Miami half the year?
``Around '70, my father bought a house here for my grandmother. So since then this is where we come for summers, for Christmas. My father wrote Could You Be Loved and a lot of those things here. It's a second home. We know everyone in the neighborhood, it's very dear to us. Also musically and productionwise it facilitates a lot of things. If I would like an orchestra we can go and get it.''
Do you have any favorite place you like to go out?
``No. I live at the studio. Sometimes we'll go out to keep our ears to the street to see what people are saying. But it's not a regular habit. The kids bring me out sometimes. My oldest son is soon to be 18, sometimes he take me out, to Gameworks, to the mall, him go introduce me to his girlfriend. Regular teenage stuff.''
What do you do for fun?
``We play a lot of soccer. With anyone, with family, friends, the people from the park itself.''
Do all of you live near each other?
``Yeah man, like the next street over.''
How many Marleys are there anyways?
``How many of us . . . like half a dozen of Bob's kids. Our kids, that's maybe 30 of us. Yeah, we got our platoon over here.''
So what's it like when you get together for Thanksgiving?
``We get together every day. God has blessed us, we're very thankful. When we was growing up we never get to spend a lot of time with our father. So we always use that to spend as much time as we can as a family. We stick together.''
Are any of the next Marley generation making music?
``My eldest son plays music and Ziggy's eldest son plays music, and they play together. They have a little room at the studio where they go in and create them thing. I don't say nothing to him yet cause he has one more year of school. But between you and me, it's good.''
-- JORDAN LEVIN
Source: Miami Herald
Stephen Marley has just released an acoustic version of 'Mind Control.'
Musician Stephen Marley, who carries on his father's legacy from his Ghetto Youth studio and home in South Miami, has just released an acoustic version of Mind Control, his Grammy winning 2007 solo debut. The soulful Mind Control Acoustic, featuring Damian ''Jr. Gong'' Marley and Spragga Benz, is available on iTunes. We talked with the 36-year-old producer.
So why do you and so much of the Marley clan -- including brothers Ziggy, Damian and Julian -- live in Miami half the year?
``Around '70, my father bought a house here for my grandmother. So since then this is where we come for summers, for Christmas. My father wrote Could You Be Loved and a lot of those things here. It's a second home. We know everyone in the neighborhood, it's very dear to us. Also musically and productionwise it facilitates a lot of things. If I would like an orchestra we can go and get it.''
Do you have any favorite place you like to go out?
``No. I live at the studio. Sometimes we'll go out to keep our ears to the street to see what people are saying. But it's not a regular habit. The kids bring me out sometimes. My oldest son is soon to be 18, sometimes he take me out, to Gameworks, to the mall, him go introduce me to his girlfriend. Regular teenage stuff.''
What do you do for fun?
``We play a lot of soccer. With anyone, with family, friends, the people from the park itself.''
Do all of you live near each other?
``Yeah man, like the next street over.''
How many Marleys are there anyways?
``How many of us . . . like half a dozen of Bob's kids. Our kids, that's maybe 30 of us. Yeah, we got our platoon over here.''
So what's it like when you get together for Thanksgiving?
``We get together every day. God has blessed us, we're very thankful. When we was growing up we never get to spend a lot of time with our father. So we always use that to spend as much time as we can as a family. We stick together.''
Are any of the next Marley generation making music?
``My eldest son plays music and Ziggy's eldest son plays music, and they play together. They have a little room at the studio where they go in and create them thing. I don't say nothing to him yet cause he has one more year of school. But between you and me, it's good.''
-- JORDAN LEVIN
Source: Miami Herald