In his teens, Robertson's parents separated. He became a fan of rock and roll and rhythm and blues through the radio, listening to disc jockey George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz play rock on WKBW from Buffalo, New York, and staying up to listen to John R.'s all-night blues show on WLAC, a clear-channel station in Nashville, Tennessee. Here he was taught guitar, particularly by his older cousin Herb Myke. : 55 : 65 He often travelled with his mother to the reserve to visit family.

The couple continued working at the factory and the three lived in several Toronto neighbourhoods while Robbie was a child. She met James Patrick Robertson there and they married in 1942. She lived with an aunt in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood and worked at the Coro jewellery plating factory.

She was Cayuga and Mohawk, raised on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve southwest of Toronto. His mother was born Rosemarie Dolly Chrysler on February 6, 1922. Jaime Royal Robertson was born an only child on July 5, 1943. Robertson collaborated on film and TV soundtracks, usually with director Martin Scorsese, beginning in the rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978) and continuing through dramatic films including Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Silence (2016), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. He wrote ' The Weight', ' The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down', and ' Up on Cripple Creek' with the Band and had solo hits with ' Broken Arrow' and ' Somewhere Down the Crazy River', and many others. He is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and into Canada's Walk of Fame, with the Band and on his own. Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre.

He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist. Jaime Royal ' Robbie' Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician.

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