Ziggy Marley is back and releases album ‘Brightside’
Ziggy Marley is a nine-time Grammy award-winning musician, Emmy winner, producer, and humanitarian. He has spent his life using music as a tool for unity, self-reflection and upliftment. As the eldest son of Bob and Rita Marley, he carries forward a legacy rooted in history while continually forging his own creative path
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From his early days performing alongside his family to a solo career spanning decades, Ziggy’s music blends reggae, soul, rock, and global rhythms—always guided by messages of love, justice, and resilience. His work speaks not only to personal reflection but to collective responsibility, encouraging listeners to engage the world with clarity and compassion. Brightside is the title of Ziggy Marley's ninth solo studio album and first since his 2020 children’s album, More Family Time. Brightside’s eight songs – co-produced by Ziggy and his brother Stephen, and recorded at his newly built Rebel Lion Studio in Los Angeles – offers a different frequency of music, and messages of hope, perseverance and positivity in the face of troubled times. Rooted in honesty and lived experience, Brightside reveals a deeper, more intimate perspective while still carrying a universal appeal.
“The brightside is my world," explains Marley. "We are confident in the victory of good over evil. We're not guessing. We understand that. So no matter what you see going on, we have no doubts. We have to give life a chance. There's always a reason for life to go on." He points explicitly to the song "Why Let the World," with its brass-led reggae cadence and refrain of "Why let the world trouble me?," as Brightside's key thematic lynch pin.
"I was in a funky mood, a funky state of mind, state of emotion, when I wrote that song," Marley recalls. "You see what's happening in the world, what’s happening to people, and it really brings me down sometimes. I already had a few songs that addressed what I was going through personally. But when that song found me, I realized the album was going to have a introspective side to it. So that song became my therapy; when I started playing that, it just uplifted me." So did the creative process of Brightside, which was entirely different than anything he's done to date. Ziggy Marley remains devoted to inspiring positive change — one song, one action, and one moment at a time.
