Turned an entire island's music into the global signal that everything's probably going to be alright.
Fun fact: His father was a white English plantation overseer who was over 50 years old when Marley was born.
Somehow got an album onto 500 million iPhones without asking, which takes a special kind of confidence.
Fun fact: Bono's stage name comes from a Dublin hearing aid shop called Bonavox, Latin for "good voice."