Ziggy Marley/Keeping the Dream alive...

[KiwiCoromandel]

Ziggy Marley may resemble his father, but his music is very much his own, writes Scott Kara

Everything he did helps us do what we do today." No prizes for guessing who Ziggy Marley is talking about.

"My father is my biggest musical influence. He's my hero," he says in his laidback and often hard to decipher Jamaican lilt.

And through songs like Keep On Dreaming, off his last album Love Is My Religion which won best reggae album at the 2007 Grammy awards, he still keeps in touch with his dad, who died of cancer on May 11, 1981, aged 36.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/ne...jectid=10554325

source:Scott Kara/Blog/NZHerald

image:Supplied by Leesa Tilley..."If we really want to make a change in the world and in the future we have to speak to children," says Ziggy Marley."