What was the name of the sound system Bob Marley worked for as a teenager?

Bob Marley worked with Coxsone’s Downbeat as a teenager. The Jamaican sound system was operated by Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, one of the central figures in Kingston’s early recording and dancehall culture.

Sound systems were mobile music businesses that played imported American rhythm and blues records at neighborhood dances. They were crucial to Jamaica’s emerging music industry: singers and musicians could gain attention when a selector tested a record through a sound system’s powerful speakers. Dodd’s Downbeat became one of Kingston’s most influential operations and later fed talent into his Studio One label.

Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were introduced to Dodd in the early 1960s. Their first major Wailers release for Studio One was “Simmer Down,” which became a Jamaican hit in 1964. The common confusion is with Duke Reid’s Trojan, another famous rival sound system; King Tubby was associated primarily with dub production and engineering, not this early Marley connection.