The two made music together, making a guitar from bamboo, sardine cans, and electrical wire and learning harmonies from local singer Joe Higgs. There, Marley shared quarters with a boy his age named "Bunny" Neville O'Riley Livingston. They settled in Trench Town, a west Kingston slum named for the sewer that ran through it. Marley's parents separated when he was six, and soon thereafter, he moved with his mother to Kingston, joining the wave of rural immigrants that flooded the capital during the 1950s and 1960s. His mother was a Jamaican teenager, and his father was a middle-aged captain in the West Indian regiment of the British Army. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a Black Jamaican singer and songwriter.īob Marley was born Robert Nesta Marley in rural Rhoden Hall in the Parish of St. *This date marks the birth of Bob Marley in 1945.
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