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Marley and Neville Livingston (later known as [[Bunny Wailer]]) had been childhood friends in Nine Mile. They had started to play music together while at Stepney Primary and Junior High School.<ref>[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201101/bunny-wailer-john-jeremiah-sullivan?currentPage=4 The Last Wailer - Bunny Wailer interview] at GQ. Interviewer: John Jeremiah Sullivan. Published January 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2013.</ref> Marley left Nine Mile with his mother when he was 12 and moved to [[Trenchtown]], Kingston. Cedella Booker and Thadeus Livingston (Bunny Wailer's father) had a daughter together whom they named Pearl, who was a younger sister to both Bob and Bunny. Now that Marley and Livingston were living together in the same house in Trenchtown, their musical explorations deepened to include the latest R&B from American radio stations whose broadcasts reached Jamaica, and the new Ska music.<ref>[http://jasobrecht.com/bob-marleys-early-years-miles-london/ Bob Marley’s Early Years: From Nine Miles To London] Jas Obrecht Music Archive. Retrieved 8 November 2013.</ref> The move to Trenchtown was proving to be fortuitous, and Marley soon found himself in a vocal group with Bunny LivingstonWailer, [[Peter Tosh]], [[Beverley Kelso]] and [[Junior Braithwaite]]. [[Joe Higgs]], who was part of the successful vocal act [[Higgs &and Wilson]], resided on 3rd St., and his singing partner Roy Wilson had been raised by the grandmother of Junior Braithwaite. Higgs and Wilson would rehearse at the back of the houses between 2nd and 3rd Streets, and it wasn't long before Marley (now residing on 2nd St), Junior Braithwaite and the others were congregating around this successful duo.<ref>[http://www.iration.com/juniorbraithwaite/jbinterview.html Junior Braithwaite interview at iration] Date: 5 May 1985. Interviewer: Roger Steffens. Retrieved 7 November 2013.</ref> Marley and the others didn't play any instruments at this time, and were more interested in being a vocal harmony group. Higgs was glad to help them develop their vocal harmonies, although more importantly, he had started to teach Marley how to play guitar &mdash; thereby creating the bedrock that would later allow Marley to construct some of the biggest-selling reggae songs in the history of the genre.<ref>[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/smallaxe/joe%20higgs.htm Joe Higgs - No Man Could Stop The Source] by Chuck Foster. Retrieved 12 November 2013.</ref><ref name="Pareles">[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/22/arts/joe-higgs-59-reggae-performer-taught-a-generation-of-singers.html Joe Higgs, 59, Reggae Performer; Taught a Generation of Singers.] [[New York Times]]. Published 22 December 1999. Correspondent: Jon Pareles. Retrieved 12 November 2013.</ref>

== Bob Marley and the Wailers ==