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How ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Brought the 1976 Smile Jamaica Concert and ‘Exodus’ Recording Sessions to the Big Screen
Bob Marley: One Love cast members, including star Kingsley Ben-Adir, and composer Kris Bowers unpack the music in the new biopic.
Armed with an enduring global legacy and a timeless catalog of culture-shifting reggae classics, Bob Marley: One Love – which hit theaters on Feb. 14 — enters the playing field as the latest offering from Reinaldo Marcus Green, director of the Acadamy Award-nominated King Richard. One of the key instrumentalists in popularizing the one drop rhythm, an authentic recapturing of Carly’s drum playing proved to be a microcosm of the One Love cast’s commitment to taking pride in every detail of the film’s music scenes. Like Ben-Adir, Bowers – who also scored recent major motion pictures such as Blitz Bazawule’s The Color Purple(2023) and Ava DuVernay’s Origin(2023) — is not of Jamaican descent, but his trust in director Reinaldo Marcus Green (with whom he previously collaborated on 2021’s King Richard) and respect for Bob Marley’s legacy drew him to One Love.
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