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ZIGGY MARLEY<\/h1>\nZIGGY MARLEY<\/h1>\nExploring the connection between his father\u2019s legacy and his own artistry<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is this album a turning point for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n There may be some of that. I am so close to it, I don\u2019t know. What prompted me to record this album were the good experiences I\u2019ve had live. I wanted to show something that some might not be able to see\u2014a live show. Putting on a live show is very different from making a record. It\u2019s a whole different interpretation of music. It\u2019s a record of a moment in time. It wasn\u2019t a big production, and we didn\u2019t do a lot of shows. It was simple, uncomplicated.<\/p>\n What did you discover in the process?<\/strong><\/p>\n I heard specific things in the instrumentation that I wasn\u2019t aware of when we were playing live. Maybe when I heard it originally,\u00a0I didn\u2019t like it. Sometimes, when you hear the songs again, the individual musicianship is heightened. The thing I learned from my father in terms of live shows was\u00a0to never take them for granted. Put time into rehearsals and do them right. When I listen to my father\u2019s music, I am attracted\u00a0to the rare stuff, the less popular songs rather than the songs everybody knows. In live shows, I do a couple of his songs. I have some of his songs on this record. I try to\u00a0find a connection between one of his\u00a0songs and one of mine and then put them\u00a0together, join them that way. That\u2019s\u00a0how I choose them.<\/p>\n Ever had any live Spinal Tap<\/em> moments?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have had a few of those. In the early days, we went to England to do a show. We were ready to mime our song, and they put on the British national anthem instead. We were onstage looking at each other like, \u201cNow what?\u201d Stuff like that you remember.<\/p>\n You do a lot of charity work, especially for polio.<\/strong><\/p>\n There are people who do much more than I do. I do what little I can. Sometimes they\u2019ll ask me to do things and it\u2019s not much at all. Children especially shouldn\u2019t have to suffer through polio. There is no reason to say no and every reason to say yes. Another avenue to express myself is the organic food line we launched. That is very important for me as a human being, to help people put organic things in their bodies.<\/p>\n What can you share about your next studio album?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have been writing songs and working\u00a0on ideas and getting frustrated and going back. It\u2019s just me trying to work on the music. I have to forget everything else to get it done, and then give it to the band.\u00a0It\u2019s a long process, and parts are frustrating. I am pretty shy, and I probably let out more through music when I am by myself than\u00a0I would if I wrote with somebody. I\u2019m\u00a0freer as a person when I\u2019m alone, so I<\/p>\n write by myself.<\/p>\n \u2013Nancy Dunham<\/p>\n ZIGGY MARLEY Exploring the connection between his father\u2019s legacy and his own artistry Although Ziggy Marley has won five Grammys and garnered widespread acclaim for his work as a humanitarian, author and producer, to many he will always be known as Bob Marley\u2019s eldest son. Rather than distancing himself from his father\u2019s legacy, Marley embraces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[5885,5986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Although Ziggy Marley has won five Grammys and garnered widespread acclaim for his work as a humanitarian, author and producer, to many he will always be known as Bob Marley\u2019s eldest son. Rather than distancing himself from his father\u2019s legacy, Marley embraces the spirit and artistry of the legendary performer, who died in 1981. His new album, Ziggy Marley in Concert<\/em>, proves he\u2019s on a quest to advance his father\u2019s work. Marley doesn\u2019t banter much in concerts, but carefully orchestrates his sets so that both his and his father\u2019s music combine to tell one story of love, spirituality and hope, even in times of turmoil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"