Singer and DJ. Jamaican-American recording artist and DJ, known professionally as Jo Mersa, was the eldest son of eight-time Grammy-winner Stephen Marley and the second grandchild of reggae legend Bob Marley. He grew up surrounded by music, performing onstage at age 4 with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers — his father, his uncle Ziggy, and his aunts Cedella and Sharon — during that group's concert finales. He moved to Florida at age 11, where he studied studio engineering. He made his official musical debut in 2010 with "My Girl," a collaboration with his older cousin Daniel Bambaata Marley, released on the Marley family's imprint record label Ghetto Youths. This was followed by the breakthrough track "Bad So" in 2012, with his debut EP, Comfortable, coming out in 2014. He worked with Jesse Royal, Alborosie, Farruko, Jemere Morgan, Barbara Fialho, the Grandpickneys, and Morgan Heritage, appearing on the latter's Grammy-winning album "Strictly Roots" in 2015. His most recent release under his Jo Mersa moniker was 2021's "Eternal" EP, which featured collaborations with Kabaka Pyramid, Black I Am, Melii, and Busy Signal, and was critically heralded as his biggest step yet toward coming into his own as an artist.
Singer and DJ. Jamaican-American recording artist and DJ, known professionally as Jo Mersa, was the eldest son of eight-time Grammy-winner Stephen Marley and the second grandchild of reggae legend Bob Marley. He grew up surrounded by music, performing onstage at age 4 with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers — his father, his uncle Ziggy, and his aunts Cedella and Sharon — during that group's concert finales. He moved to Florida at age 11, where he studied studio engineering. He made his official musical debut in 2010 with "My Girl," a collaboration with his older cousin Daniel Bambaata Marley, released on the Marley family's imprint record label Ghetto Youths. This was followed by the breakthrough track "Bad So" in 2012, with his debut EP, Comfortable, coming out in 2014. He worked with Jesse Royal, Alborosie, Farruko, Jemere Morgan, Barbara Fialho, the Grandpickneys, and Morgan Heritage, appearing on the latter's Grammy-winning album "Strictly Roots" in 2015. His most recent release under his Jo Mersa moniker was 2021's "Eternal" EP, which featured collaborations with Kabaka Pyramid, Black I Am, Melii, and Busy Signal, and was critically heralded as his biggest step yet toward coming into his own as an artist.
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