Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Marleys & More Performing At Bob Marley Festival

02/07/2002 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(2/7/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Lauryn Hill, DMX, Erykah Badu, Mr. Cheeks, and Foxy Brown are among the performers on the bill for the ninth annual Bob Marley Caribbean Festival in Miami on Saturday (February 9). The day-long festival will also feature performances by Bob's sons Damian, Stephen, and Julian, as well as Bunny Wailer, Tony Rebel, and Sean Paul.

The concert coincides with events across the world marking the anniversary of Bob Marley's birth. Marley, who died of cancer in 1981, would have been 57 on Tuesday (February 6).

Damian Marley says his father's legacy should also be honored during all of February, which is Black History Month. "Everywhere you go now you can see at least a few Rastas, yet before Bob Marley and the Wailers really went out there to play music, you really wouldn't see any," he says. "So our father really helped spread the music and the message of Rastafari, which is really a culture that deals with black upliftment. Also, we know that my father's music is really for the people who are struggling, which--when you check it, especially in the Western hemisphere--the majority happens to be black."

Tickets for the festival are $22.50 plus four cans of food that will be donated to charity. Call (305) 740-7344 for more information about the show.

-- Anna Maria Gibson, New York

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