The artist reggae Jamaico-American Joseph Mersa Marley died at the age of 31 on Tuesday, in the United States. He is the grandson of the emblematic musician of Reggae Bob Marley and the son of Stephen Marley, another musician rewarded with a Grammy Award. The young man was found lifeless in a car, the causes of his death are not yet known.
The death of Jo Mersa was reported for the first time in a tweet by Jamaican journalist Abka Fitz-Henley, then confirmed by his representative to the magazine Rolling Stone. Joseph would have, according to WZPP radio station in Florida, succumbed to an asthma attack, he who has been subject to it since childhood. An autopsy must confirm this hypothesis.
Born in Jamaica in 1991, Joseph moved to Miami at the age of 11, according to Rolling Stone. He was exposed to music from an early age when he was raised by his father Stephen, 50, the fourth of the eleven children that Bob Marley officially had with his wife Rita and six other women, before dying in 1981 of cancer, at the age of 36.
Like her father and grandfather, Jo Mersa wanted to live from his music, not just the immense heritage of his father. He released his first song “My Girl” in collaboration with his cousin Daniel Bambaata Marley, Ziggy’s son – in 2010. Two years later, he participated in the world tour of his father Stephen. In 2014, he released his first EP, entitled “Comfortable”. His second EP, “Eternal”, was released last year.
