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Nesta Robert Marley was born
Nesta Robert Marley was born at 2:30 am on Wednesday February 6, 1945 in Trench Town, Jamaica. -
Bob first got interested in music
When Bob was about 4-5 years old it was the first time he got interested in music and sang an old Jamaican tune to his mom, Cedella. -
Bob first learned about the guitar
When Bob was 5 his mom sold her grocery shop and started to frequently travel to Kingston for work while she left Bob with his grandfather, Omeriah. Omeeriah introduced Bob to one of his relatives, Clarence Malcom who was a Jamaican guitarist and who was the first person to show Bob the guitar. -
Bob won his first singing competition
When Bob was 7 he won a pound in a singing competition. -
Bob moved to Kingston to his Mom
When Bob was 12, his mom went to live in Kingston for a bit while Bob went to live with his strict aunt. A few months later his mom, Cedella, decided that Bob should come and live with her. -
Bob took music sessions
In 1960, Bob started taking part in evening music sessions held in his third street yard by Joe Higgs, one of the areas most famous resident, due to him being Jamaica's first indigenous recording artists. At one of these sessions he met another youth who wanted to try out as a vocalist. -
Bob and his friends made a singing group
In 1961, Peter Tosh, his friend Bunny and Bob with Peter's guitar playing and singing and Bunny and Bob learning to play guitar with their guitars made of a bamboo staff, electric cable wire and a large sardine can and their singing they finally all became a group. A singer named Junior Braithwaite also helped and sang with them sometimes -
Bob's group bought a real guitar
In 1961, the group bought a proper guitar for Peter to play and five years later they still used that guitar on recordings -
Bob was signed to Beverley's label music label
Leslie Kong ran a recording studio called Beverley’s label, named after his wife, and had a guy named Derrick Morgan signed to his label. Morgan also had the job of an unofficial talent scout for the label. Morgan’s girlfriend named Pat Stewart knew Bob’s mom and when Bob visited her one time and heard him sing, she told Morgan about his voice and suggested Bob to him. Morgan checked him out in February 1962. He signed him in March 1962. -
Bob recorded his first song 'Judge Not"
Bob recorded his frist song "Judge Not" in that same month. -
Jamaica was granted independence
On August 6th, 1962, Jamaica was granted independence from British colonial rule. -
The Wailers signed to Beverley's label
Leslie Kong signed the whole group, calling them, The Wailers -
Bob's first kid was born
May 22, 1963 Cheryl Murray, a local girl 2 years younger than Bob, gave birth to Imani Carole, Bob’s first kid. -
The Wailers switched labels
The Wailers switched and signed with Clement Dodd’s Studio One Label in 1963 -
Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith joined in
Beverley Kelso(who became Bob's girlfriend) and Cherry Smith became backup vocalists to The Wailers -
The Wailers had their next huge hit
The Wailers song "Simmer Down" came out and it changed many people in Jamaica's thinking and no one has written a song about ghetto thinking.
