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Cherine Anderson was born (Sept. 25, 1983) in Rockfort, East Kingston, Jamaica and is a Reggae musician as well as actress, and Dancehall vocalist. Anderson has performed with numerous other musicians like, Sly and Robbie, Wyclef Jean, Bootsy Collins, Sting, Michael Franti, Jimmy Cliff and many, many more. “Good Love” is on the 2008 Grammy Nominated album “Anniversary” released by Sly & Robbie with the Taxi Gang. Chuck Fenda worked with Cherine, in 2006, on the single, “Coming Over” which made its way to numero uno on the Jamaican charts. She has even workd with Britney Spears on “Piece of Me” remixed by Sly & Robbie.

Anderson opened for Wyclef Jean in Tortola British Virgin Island in 2007. She was a featured vocalist on Sly & Robbie and the Taxi Gangs US/Canadian tour in 2007 as well.

Peter Tosh(October 19, 1944-September 11, 1987), originally named Winston Hubert McIntosh was born in Bellmont, Westmoreland, Jamaica and grew up in the ghetto, known as Trenchtown. Trenchtown is an extremely poor neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica, the capital and largest city of Jamaica. The area gets its name from its previous designation, Trench Pen, 33 acres of land, for agriculture, that was used for livestock by James Trench, an Irish immigrant, in which his family abandoned the land in the late 19th century. It’s commonly mistaken, that its name came from the large open sewer that runs through the neighborhood in the middle of Collie Smith Drive, which isn’t the case.

He learned the guitar by listening to American radio stations. Peter took vocal lessons, as a youngster, with Joe Higgs, who introduced Tosh to Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer. The three played day and night perfecting their vocal sound and harmonies. Higgs not only helped the three harmonize, but was also credited with teaching Bob Marley to play guitar. In 1962, he drove the formation of “The Wailing Wailers” centered around his magnificent trio, by adding Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith, and Junior Braithwaite. Their first single, “Simmer Down” became a huge hit, of ska sound, among Jamaicans, as well as others until Junior, Beverley, and Cherry left the band, leaving the core three to look for others to fill the rhythmic needs.

Robert Nesta Marley was born(February 6, 1949 - May11, 1981) in the small village of Nine Mile, in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. His father was Norval Sinclair Marley, a white English Jamaican, that was a Marine officer, Captain, and oversaw a plantation. His father, who was 30 years the elder of his mother, married Cedella Booker after getting her pregnant. It’s been said that she was a worker on the plantation at the time. Bob rarely saw his father while growing up the Kingston ghettos. His father later died at age 60, Bob was only 10 years old at that time.

Bob Marley faced extreme prejudices on both sides, having a black mother and white father didn’t sit well with many during that time period, and it came out full boar against the young Marley.

It wasn’t long before he met his best friend, Bunny Livingston, followed by Peter MacIntosh(Peter Tosh as he was later known as). In 1963 the three joined forces with, Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso, and Cherry Smith, to create “The Wailing Wailers”, and were soon discovered by Coxsone Dodd. “The Wailing Wailers”, who were first called the “The Wailing Rudeboys”, formed their rocksteady group that helped put Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Bob Marley on the map in Jamaica.