{"id":40984,"date":"2020-02-06T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/bob-marleys-redemption-song-celebrates-40th-anniversary-with-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:51:34","slug":"bob-marley-redemption-song-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bob-marley-redemption-song-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley&#8217;s &#8216;Redemption Song&#8217; celebrates 40th anniversary with music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36355 pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley-1010x673.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/a306e6e6-bob-marley-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>On February 6th, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/?post_type=post&amp;s=bob+marley\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Bob Marley<\/a><\/span> would have celebrated his 75th birthday. The artist&#8217;s family dedicated a special tribute to him by offering&nbsp;a video clip of his cult emancipation song.<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Redemption Song&#8221; was&nbsp;one of Bob Marley&#8217;s most famous songs. To celebrate its 40th anniversary,&nbsp;French artists Octave Marsal and Theo De Gueltzl&nbsp;draw&nbsp;nearly 3 000 original drawings to&nbsp;animate this cult anthem of emancipation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yv5xonFSC4c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it came out amazing,&#8221; Marley&#8217;s daughter Cedella&nbsp;told Billboard<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8550184\/bob-marley-75th-birthday-redemption-song-new-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">.<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;We went through this six-month process with Octave and Theo going through it page by page, us looking at stuff and approving it all. When I watch it, it still gives me goosebumps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Redemption Song&#8221; was featured on Marley&#8217;s final studio album, <em>Uprising<\/em>, which was released in 1980. Marley died in 1981 of cancer. He was 36.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6th, Bob Marley would have celebrated his 75th birthday. The artist&#8217;s family dedicated a special tribute to him by offering&nbsp;a video clip of his cult emancipation song. &#8220;Redemption Song&#8221; was&nbsp;one of Bob Marley&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[23822,23663],"location":[8082],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,23814,9317,9172,23816,23817,8407,8618,17226,23815,23819,8402,23818,23812,23811,11238,23813,23820,8543,8619],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40984"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=40984"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}