In 1962, Bob recorded his first two singles called ‘Judge Not’ and ‘One Cup of Coffee’ with Leslie Kong under the pseudonym Bobby Martell. It was at one such jam session, that Bob Marley also met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh). At 14 he apprenticed at a local welder’s shop and began to make music in his free time with Livingston and Joe Higgs, who was a local musician and a devout Rastafarian. This is also the time he met Neville Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer) and they began playing music together. This earned him the nickname of ‘Tuff Gong’. So he learnt self defense and eventually gained a lot of physical strength. Since he was of a short stature and due to his mixed origins, Bob Marley had to endure a lot of bullying.
His family moved to the Trenchtown slum in Kingston after his father died. Bob Marley was ten years old when his father died. Although his father provided the family with financial support, he was away most of the time on his work related trips. Due to this, he suffered a lot of racial prejudice in his childhood. His father Norval Sinclair Marley was a white man in his 50s and his mother Cedella Booker was a black woman who was 18 years old. Robert Nesta Marley was born on the 6th of February 1945 in the Saint Ann Parish of Jamaica.
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