What music genre was Bob Marley famous for?

Bob Marley, in full Robert Nesta Marley, was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica, and died on May 11, 1981, in Miami, Florida, U.S. He was a Jamaican singer-songwriter whose thoughtful ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical forms blossomed in the 1970s into a hybrid that made him an international superstar.

Source: Britannica