Title: Stephen Marley: Reggae, Guitars and His Father's Legacy

Excerpt: “There’s a simple explanation,” says Stephen Marley, with a laugh. “It’s called DNA.”

Excerpt: Is it different working with members of your family, as opposed to working with people with whom you aren't related?

"It is different. There's more of a bond in the conception, with family. Everyone kind of thinks on the same wavelength. Working with people outside the family involves communication that has to be sort of broken down."

Excerpt: Your father had an incredibly strong work ethic, which is something you seem to have inherited.

"We inherited the lessons from that, in the sense of knowing what a strong work ethic brings. After that, it’s up to you, whether you want to work hard or not. Seeing the results of my father's hard work — what that hard work brought — is the best lesson we learned. If we want similar results, then we too have to work hard too."

Excerpt: His legacy has never seemed burdensome to you. Instead, you've always seemed to cherish the responsibility that goes along with that.

"That’s true. That responsibility makes you a better person. It keeps you in line, and helps you in life. It helps you in life because his example is so positive."

Title: Marley takes Control

Excerpt: STEPHEN MARLEY'S Mind Control: Acoustic has debuted at number one on Billboard Magazine's Reggae Chart

Title: Marley son carries on legacy

Excerpt: So what's it like when you get together for Thanksgiving?

``We get together every day. God has blessed us, we're very thankful. When we was growing up we never get to spend a lot of time with our father. So we always use that to spend as much time as we can as a family. We stick together.''

Are any of the next Marley generation making music?

``My eldest son plays music and Ziggy's eldest son plays music, and they play together. They have a little room at the studio where they go in and create them thing. I don't say nothing to him yet cause he has one more year of school. But between you and me, it's good.''

Title: Reggae and World Music Awards

Excerpt: Ky-Mani Marley then collected his Producer's Respect Award, setting the stage for soca artiste Jaydene to open up the performances of the night. It came as little surprise when Dean Fraser and Mutabaruka took home the IRAWMA trophies for Best Instrumentalist and Best Poet next.

Excerpt: Ky-Mani wasn't the only Marley who had a good night. His brothers Stephen and Ziggy Marley also took home trophies. Stephen won the awards for Best CD - Mind Control, as well as Songwriter of the Year, and Ziggy with the Marcus Garvey Humanitarian Award, "for charitable efforts through his URGE organisation". They were however not present at the event.

Title: For Stephen Marley, reggae is still a family affair

Excerpt: "I don't want to be just another artist." Those were words of Stephen Marley.

Excerpt: "My joy and my pain," he said, "this is me.

"It's a page from my book: every page tells a story, but at the same time is a continuation of the page before it or the page to come.

"This is just one page," he continued.

Excerpt: It's been quite a career for someone who has never seemed to take his family lineage for granted.

And, more importantly, wanted nothing more than to be part of "good music, good message, good vibe."

"I want to make a statement," Stephen said, "and continue this legacy, this musical legacy, with my family."

Title: Stephen wins best reggae album

Excerpt: Best Reggae Album
Mind Control
Stephen Marley
[Tuff Gong/Ghetto Youths/Universal Republic]

Title: Stephen Marley Scores 2008 Grammy Nomination

Excerpt: Multiple-Grammy winning artist/producer, Stephen Marley (he holds
the Reggae record with five Grammy wins) was nominated, for Best
Reggae Album for his 2007 masterpiece Mind Control.

Excerpt: "Every Grammy I have ever received has been an honor and I'm
grateful to be nominated this year," stated Marley.

Excerpt: Stephen is the third consecutive Marley (hailing from the great
Marley musical dynasty) to be nominated in the Best Reggae Album
category, with Ziggy Marley taking home the award at the 49th Annual
Grammy Awards for Love Is My Religion, and brother Damian "Jr. Gong"
Marley winning at the 48th Grammys for Welcome To Jamrock.

Title: Marley legacy still jammin'

Excerpt: The success of Jamrock led Stephen, 35, to postpone his first solo album until this spring. The wait has been worth it: Mind Control has spent eight weeks atop Billboard's reggae charts; it peaked at No. 35 on the general album chart.

Excerpt: "Maybe it's God's plan," Stephen says. "We just hope to enlighten the people in many different ways — socially, spiritually, physically."

Excerpt: Their father opened the door," Fox says, "but here's one family that has not taken that pass for granted."

Title: Stephen Marley Is in 'Control'

Excerpt: So, 28 years between debut recording and debut album: Is that a career deferred, or what?

"What can I say?" Stephen says with a laugh from San Diego, a stop on his first headlining tour, one that brings him to the 9:30 club Tuesday, with Damian and possibly other Marleys in tow.

"We are a team and I am the midfielder," Stephen says. "I am the one that sends through the passes so that my teammates can score the goals. That was just the position that was comfortable for me, the position we all flourished best at, when I was in the middle.

"Now it's time for me to go up front."

Excerpt: The gentler side of the Wailers legacy is evoked on Stephen's reading of Ray Charles's "Lonely Avenue," the album's only cover.

"First of all, I'm a big fan of Ray Charles's music," he explains. "And that song, it kind of has a double meaning to me, reminds me of 'Concrete Jungle.' 'My room has got two windows, but the sunlight never comes through' reminds me of 'No sun will shine in my day today.' A lot of people see that kind of situation in their own lives -- they have windows in their lives, but the sun doesn't shine for them. It had a double meaning to me, more than just singing about a woman, it had a life meaning."

Title: Stephen Marley Talks Mind Control, Family, Jail

Excerpt: Pitchfork: Or being in jail? You have those three songs on the album that are inspired by your experience of being put in a Tallahassee jail for marijuana possession. What was that like?

SM: Well, it was an experience still. I mean, it wasn't a great bad experience. It was an inconvenience. It wasn't justified, where they put us for this plant that we had. It wasn't justified, because I was behind bars with people that cut people's throats. And at the same time, I can go out to any bar on any given day and have as many shots of Jack Daniels and be as drunk as I want to be. So it didn't feel right, and it made me very curious as to why, really, do they fight this plant so much when it has so many different uses, you know?

Excerpt: Pitchfork: How do you avoid them? It seems like every family has problems.

SM: We're spiritual. Our father is our greatest mentor, and what he stands for-- it would be a total dishonor for us to be a squabbling family. To be a family that can enhance the lessons, the things that my father stood for, the things that he taught well, and we as his seeds-- it's a good pressure. It's good standards. So that is how we approach life. We don't really have the time. We grow up without a father. I have no time for quarrelling with my brothers. I love them. I appreciate everything.

Title: Stephen Marley comes from reggae royalty

Excerpt: What's something people would be surprised to learn about your father? I don't know really. My dad loved ice cream. I don't know if that matters.

Excerpt: If you could control people's minds, would you? Um, yes! Because I would put positive things in their thoughts and in their minds. Such as? Just love, first of all. Love for mankind, you know. That would be the biggest thing. If we cannot find love, we can't find nothing.

Title: Bob Marley's Sons to Hold Concert

Excerpt: KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Four sons of Bob Marley will hold a concert promoting peace to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the musician's birth, a family spokesman said Tuesday.

Excerpt: The concert shares the name of a 1976 show staged by the government of former socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley to promote harmony between politically aligned gangs, and it will feature Stephen Marley and his brothers Ky-Mani, Damian and Julian, Hamilton said.

Excerpt: Hamilton said Ziggy Marley, the most famous of the legendary musician's children, was not able to attend and rarely visits Jamaica.

Title: Stephen Marley

Excerpt: Mind Control "has more magic than 'great songs,'" says Stephen mischievously. "But it has a little magic in it, still." And perhaps more than anything that's the secret to this Marley's auspicious solo debut: the magic created when diverse roots combine in an artist's singular musical vision--when a blistering electric guitar solo slides into a bluesy harmonica riff and Stephen's wails let me out, let me out/I'm an angry lion on "Iron Bars", a collaboration with brother Julian and longtime friend the rapper Mr Cheeks--the only guest artists on the album. With the release of Got Music? that lion is out--and he's roaring.

Title: Stephen Marley in spotlight with debut album

Excerpt: But with the March 20 release of his long-awaited debut album "Mind Control" (Tuff Gong/Universal Republic), the spotlight will shine on Stephen's talents as an emotive singer, diversified songwriter and accomplished instrumentalist while solidifying his reputation as an innovative, genre-blurring producer.

Stephen handily navigates through the album's myriad moods. He is the forlorn romantic on the haunting ballad "You're Gonna Leave," the anguished bluesman on "Iron Bars" and the consummate roots reggae revolutionary decrying political corruption on "Chase Dem."

Title: Stephen Marley Ready for the Spotlight

Excerpt: Every step towards Damian's new manner of fame, Stephen was there. Stephen, the second son of Bob and Rita Marley, produced that song and much of Damian's work over the past decade. Stephen saw how people were coming to Damian's concerts, not at the chance of hearing a Bob Marley cover song performed by his son, but to hear Damian's work.

"We don't want to separate ourselves from our father," Stephen says, "but I saw that."

And it soon may be Stephen's turn to experience it. The 34-year-old will release his debut solo album, "Mind Control," on March 20.

Excerpt: "It's mental slavery," Stephen says. "The system cannot put chains on us anymore because we will rebel. We came a long way since chains and shackles so they can't do that anymore but they will try to control us mental; how to think and how to live and how to speak."

"Mind Control" is the first chapter in Stephen's book, he says. "It’s the beginning. It's not the whole story because I have much more things to say." The eclectic album features appearances by Mos Def, Ben Harper and Damian.