They sang together everyday after school and made their own instruments. With
             their adolescent voices, Bob and Bunny began in 1
             960 to build, what one day became the Wailer's music. In Kingston, musicians
             were developing a new sound, consisting of a unique mixture of mento (a kind
             of calypso) and rhythm and blues, which would later be called Jamaican Ska.
             Bob and Bunny were fascinated with America's rhythm and blues singers such as
             Fats Domino, and Louis Jordan. Most of all, the "Drifters", and particularly
             the "Impressions" had a significant impact on them. Like many other Jamaican
             teenagers, Bob found music a relief from the realities of ghetto life. By
             spending most of his time writing and practicing songs with Bunny, he
             attempted to escape the violent and inequitable world of Kingston (Lee 2).
             All Kingston youths were looking for a way out of the endless cycle of
             poverty. Crime was a solution for some, known as rudies, but on the violent
             Kingston streets it almost certainly ended in their early death. When Bob
             attended school, he dreamed of music. However, schoolwork prepared him for
             unattainable goals, which would only result in
             empty solutions. The life he was destined for in Trench Town had nothing to
             do with math and science. By the time he was fifteen, he had quit school, and
             had become a welder's apprentice. He felt this way he could at least bring
             some money into the household, but he still dreamed of becoming a musician.
             However, no one took him too seriously, because at that time everyone wanted
             to become a recording star. The people Bob grew up with in the Kingston slums
             were drawn towards Joe Higgs, a popular musician. Higgs like many Kingston
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