Less well known in the late sixties Nash mentored a young Bob Marley, had him live at his house and write songs and develop a band that became the Wailers, he then persuaded Island records to sign them, without Nash it is unlikely Bob Marley would have grown beyond a singer in a vocal trio and Reggae would have stayed a limited local music without that N American exposure Marley brought
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Johnny Nash dead at age 80.
