dj dubfire was born ralph van atkins campbells in castries saint lucia in his musical carer started at a very tender age when he used to sneak into his dad's study and try his fingers on the radio to see if there was any radio station playing any of bob marley's songs his love of music got even deeper when he escapes from home abandoning his house choirs to to the rastafarian's hang out and waited till it's time for them to chant by way of beating the drums and singing about rasta farai and talk more about bob marley his granny beats him up not because he didn't do his house choirs but because the jungle yard is full of weed and rastas one day at school one of classmate says he knew someone who knew some other man in jamaica who knew someone who knows bob marley so they had their kids chat and decided to go see bob marley in jamaica during the weekend thinking that jamaica could be a few meters away from castries they went to a bus station and started by asking for the right bus to jamaica