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Damian Marley is a male Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He began his professional work period in 1996 and performs under the pseudonym Junior Gong. His musical style encompasses reggae, roots reggae, dancehall, ragga, hip-hop, and kaya. He is associated with the genres of Jamaican music and has released works including *Smoke Signals* and *Stony Hill*.
Marley was born on July 21, 1978. He maintains an official website and has accumulated 2,830,000 social media followers. On the Last.fm platform, he has 1,203,747 listeners and a total playcount of 17,085,968. His discography includes two top works according to Open Library records, while Crossref lists five works.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Smoke signals
- Stony Hill
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1945-02-06
- Active to
- 1981-05-11
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,203,747
- Total plays
- 17,085,968
Tags
Damian Robert Nesta "Jr. Gong" Marley (born July 21, 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae artist who has won three Grammy awards. Damian Marley is the youngest son of reggae legend Bob Marley. Damian was two years old when his father Bob died; he is the only child born to Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976. Damian's nickname Junior Gong is derived from his father's nickname of Tuff Gong. Damian has been performing since the age of 13 and released his first album in 1996, at the age
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
· 2018 · cited 15,641x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,803x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,265x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Also known as
- Jr. Gong
- Born
- Damian Robert Nesta Marley , ( 1978-07-21 ) 21 July 1978 (age 47) , Kingston , Jamaica
- Genres
- Reggae reggae fusion hip-hop dancehall
- Occupations
- Deejay singer songwriter
- Years active
- 1992–present
- Labels
- Tuff Gong Ghetto Youth International Motown Republic
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Damian Robert Nesta Marley (born 21 July 1978) is a Jamaican reggae singer. The youngest son of Bob Marley, he is the recipient of four Grammy Awards.
Early life, education and family
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Damian Marley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.