Bob Marley

Bob Marley with his guitar on a stone plinth in Celebrity Park, outside the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. Jamaican sculptor Alvin Marriott made this lifelike bronze, and Prime Minister Edward Seaga unveiled it in 1985, though some accounts give 1984. It is Kingston's second try: an earlier, dreamlike statue by Christopher Gonzalez, showing Marley emerging from a tree trunk, upset the public and was moved to Ocho Rios, so the capital asked for a likeness people would recognize.