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So I was looking up the early history of Bob Marley and The Wailers and apparently before the other members were put to the forefront, a guy named Junior Braithwate was the original lead singer for a brief stint before The Wailers had their first hit in Jamaica with "Simmer Down" The thing is he was the youngest in the group but their manager claimed he had the best vocals, sounding like a young Michael from the Jackson 5. But once he left to come to the US in 1964, the group had to adjust to a new style. Junior had a real troubled life comimg to the US trying to get a medical degree only for Vietnam to ruin it and such. He tried to get back into singing and ended up reuniting with the remaining Wailers in the 80's to record "The Neverending Wailers". But then his life came to a tragic end in 1999 when he was killed by three men who came in and killed him with his Jamaican friend and producer, Lawrence Scott making him the second original Wailer member following Peter Tosh to die that way. He was only 50 years old. Shocking to me that they tried to make Junior be the star early on. Lots say if he hadn't move to the states, the Wailers would've lasted longer. So to dedicate a long lost Wailer, I pulled from the songs he lead on from 1963 - 1964 and put them into a datset and made it into a model. Model: