Biography
Emerging from Britain under a Jamaican moniker and aligned with pop-punk associates, MC and DJ Charley Marley shifted from hosting parties to gaining traction once Fall Out Boy selected him to open their 2015 tour. London-born and raised, he absorbed reggae, punk, and hip-hop throughout his youth, a blend that soon colored the DJ sets he performed as a teenager. Those sets carried him from private parties into nightclub bookings at venues he was still too young to enter legally. One night, after entering a club carrying his guitar, a Rasta gave him the name Charley Marley, which he later used on his debut single, “Bad Things with Jamaicans,” where he fused reggae, rap, and punk. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz encountered the track during a Jamaica vacation and invited the MC to support the band on its 2015 U.K. dates. That same year Wentz placed Marley on his DCD2 Records roster and issued the follow-up single “Wonka Bar.”
Singles
