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1945. Nesta Robert Marley is born on February 6th in the small village of Nine Miles in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica to 18-year old Cedella Booker. His father Norval Sinclair Marley, a white Jamaican had married his mother at the beginning of her pregnancy, and left town the next day.
1949. Enrolls at the Stepney All Age School in Nine Miles and around this time he begins reading the palms ofvillagers and telling their fortunes. His father Norval soon returns and takes him to live with the wealthy Marley family in Kingston. After almost a year, Cedella learns that he is not living with his father's family, but with a sickly woman, Mrs. Grey, where he is providing care and assistance for the ailing woman.
1957. He moves to the Trench Town ghetto in Kingston to join his mother who had beenworking and living there during the week and commuting back to Stepney on weekends. He enrolls at Ebenezer, a private school and maintains his friendship with Bunny Livingston who was now living nearby. Together they make homemade guitars from sticks and cans and practice songs that Cedella teaches them, sometimes writing their own.
1959. Leaves school at 14 years old and at the advice of hismother apprentices at a welders shop. Struggling to survive, like many Trench Town residents, he would often take meals at a "kitchen" where his friend Vincent "Tartar" Ford was selling small local dishes. Marley later credits the lyrics and the subsequent royalties for "No Woman, No Cry" to Vincent, acknowledging that he would have gone hungry many times if not for the aid of his friend.
1961.After a painful welding accident where a piece of metal flies into his eye, Marley gives up welding and focuses on music, joining with friends Bunny Livingston, and Peter Tosh (McIntosh). They call themselves "The Teenagers" and Marley is now being called Bob.
1962. Records the ska singles "Judge Not (Unless You Judge Yourself)", "Terror", and "One Cup of Coffee" at a small studio under thepseudonym Bobby Martell with producer Leslie Kong on his Beverley label.
1963. Daughter Imani Carole is born to Marley and his girlfriend Cheryl Murray on May 22nd.
Forms a group with Bunny Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith calling themselves "The Teenagers" and later changing their name to "TheWailing Rudeboys" then to "The Wailing Wailers" before settling on simply "The Wailers." Their first single, "Simmer Down," becomes a #1 hit on Jamaica's JBC Radio chart. The group dress is matching Motown-esque suits and they sport close-cropped haircuts.
1966. Weds Cuban born Alpharita "Rita" Constantia Anderson, a singer in the trio group "The Soulettes" on February 10th. The next day he leaveshis wife behind to find work in Wilmington, Delaware where his mother was now living. He takes a succession of jobs – from a lab assistant at DuPont, to the Chrysler assembly line.
Returns to Jamaica in November and sets up his own label, the Wail 'N' Soul 'M record store in Kingston. He soon converts to the Rastafarian religion as his wife had done in his absence and begins dreading his hair andfollowing a natural diet in the tradition of the religion.
1967. Daughter Cedella is born to Marley and Rita on August 23rd.
The Wailers sign with African-American producer Danny Sims and churn out over eighty songs on the JAD Records label.
1968. Son David "Ziggy" is born to Marley and Rita on October 17th.
1971. The Wailers release "Soul Rebels", their first album to be released outside ofJamaica.
Alan "Skill" Cole, a Jamaican soccer star and The Wailers' manager, forms the label "Tuff Gong" with ten dollars, and shares ownership of the company with Bob and the other two members of the group. "Tuff Gong" was the nickname given to Marley for his ability to defend himself in the rough Trench Town neighborhood. "Trench Town Rock" is the first song to be released on the label....