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Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
Composer
Musician
Singer
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Kingston
Jamaica
David Nesta Marley
David Marley
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