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<\/a>\u201cI met my wife Catherine while I was in France years ago doing some promotional work for my music, and the rest was history,\u201d says Fearon.
\nFearon was drawn to a lifelong love of sounds at a tender age in St. Andrews, Jamaica, listening to the music from the church, the radio, and the tunes his parents would sing along to. Fearon paid attention to the details of music, started to sing along himself, and eventually decided to get a guitar.
\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t afford a guitar so I decided I would make my own guitar and was very determined to do so,\u201d he says.
\nSo a 10-year-old Fearon made a guitar out of a cedar trunk and used broken fork teeth as frets.
\n\u201cIt was quite a journey, having nothing to work with, then making something to work with, then making the thing I wanted to make to work with,\u201d he laughs. \u201cThank goodness I didn\u2019t give up on it.\u201d
\nFearon thought the guitar sounded great at the time. He played his homemade six-stringer at his church, and even though the measurements were off and the strings were too far away from the frets, he was able to eyeball it and make it work for him.
\n\u201cThe first night after I made that guitar I played it all night until the pain on my hands was unbearable,\u201d he says.
\nA few years later, Fearon\u2019s father and friends would save enough money to get him a new guitar and he has since gone on to have play music for nearly 50 years.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve had pointers here and there and collaborated with many other musicians, but most of my musical talent was self taught,\u201d he says. \u201cDetermination and love for the music has kept me going. This is why my main message as a musician is to find the thing you love, do it well, and don\u2019t stop doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n