Reggae’s Bob Marley Rocks 55th Grammy’s From The Grave

News Americas, LOS ANGELES, CA, Mon. Feb. 11, 2013: Reggae legend, the late Robert Nesta Marley, managed to rock the 55th Grammy’s from the grave Sunday night, as organizers paused for a tribute to the man who would have turned 68 on Feb. 6th.

Grammy organizers teamed together Bruno Mars, Sting, Rihanna and Ziggy and Damian Marley for the tribute to Brother Bob, the man who gave the world reggae music and put Jamaica on the global map.

The entire audience, including Country sings like Taylor Swift and Keith Urban along with Talkshow host, Ellen, got to their feet and sang along as Mars kicked off the set with “Locked Out of Heaven.”

He was later joined on stage by Sting and then Rihanna and Ziggy Marley, who delivered Marley’s hit: “Could You Be Love.” The set was closed out by Damian Marley, himself a Grammy winner as the audience gave the legend a standing ovation.

The Grammy Award was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. It honored recording artists for quality works in the reggae music genre only from 1985. Honors in several categories are also now presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.”