Facts:

• Bob Marley was also known as 'Tuff Gong' for his physical strength.

• He was taught to play the guitar by Peter Tosh.

• He was awarded the International Peace Medal by the African delegation to the United Nations in 1978. He was also an official guest at Zimbabwe's independence celebration two years later, an honour Marley was quoted as saying was the highest he'd ever received.

CocoA Tea

Cocoa Tea was one of the few early dancehall stars to carve out a consistent, productive career as the genre evolved over the years. Cocoa Tea was born Calvin Scott on September 3, 1959, in Rocky Point, a small town in Clarendon parish. He sang with his church and school choirs as a youth, and made his first recordings for producer Willie Francis in 1974 at the mere age of 14; one single, Searching in the Hills, was released under his given name, but went nowhere.

In 1983, he moved to Kingston and adopted the performing name Cocoa Tea, after the Jamaican term for hot chocolate (later alternative spellings would include Coco Tea and Coco T). He soon met top dancehall producer Henry 'Junjo' Lawes, and recorded a series of hit singles that included Rocking Dolly, I Lost My Sonia, Informer, and Can't Stop Cocoa Tea. His first album, Weh Dem a Go Do ... Can't Stop Coco Tea, was released in 1985 and compiled many of his previous successes (a slightly different version, Rocking Dolly, was later issued in the United States.

Cocoa Tea. - Colin Hamilton