Editing Robbie Robertson (section)

==Early life==
Jaime Royal Robertson<ref name=TGM>{{cite news|title=At 67, Robbie Robertson has nothing left to prove|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/at-67-robbie-robertson-has-nothing-left-to-prove/article4201023/|work=Globe and Mail|location=Toronto|date=April 1, 2011}}</ref> was born an only child on July 5, 1943. His mother was born Rosemarie Dolly Chrysler on February 6, 1922.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Testimony|last=Robertson|first=Robbie|publisher=Vintage Canada|year=2017|isbn=9780307401403|page=25}}</ref> Chrysler was [[Cayuga people|Cayuga]] and [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]],<ref name="hiawatha">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robbie-robertson-talks-native-american-heritage-new-childrens-book-20151204|title=Robbie Robertson Talks Native American Heritage, New Children's Book|last=Grant|first=Sarah|date=4 December 2015|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref> and was raised on the [[Six Nations of the Grand River]] reserve southwest of [[Toronto]] near [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]]. Chrysler later lived with an aunt in the [[Cabbagetown, Toronto|Cabbagetown neighbourhood]] of Toronto and worked at the Coro jewellery plating factory. She met James Patrick Robertson there and married him in 1942.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Testimony|last=Robertson|first=Robbie|publisher=Vintage Canada|year=2017|isbn=9780307401403|page=27}}</ref>

James and Rosemarie Robertson continued working at the Coro factory, and they lived in several Toronto neighbourhoods while Robertson was a child.<ref name="whispering_pines1">{{cite book|last1=Schneider|first1=Jason|title=Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music From Hank Snow to The Band|date=2009|publisher=ECW Press|location=Toronto|isbn=978-1550228748|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-3YBAAAQBAJ|access-date=18 February 2016|ref=whispering_pines}}</ref>{{rp|55}}<ref name="levon_helm_book">{{cite book|last1=Helm|first1=Levon|author-link1=Levon Helm|last2=Davis|first2=Stephen|title=This Wheel's On Fire: Levon Helm and The Story of The Band|date=1993|publisher=William Morrow & Company, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0688109063|edition=first}}</ref>{{rp|65}} Robbie Robertson often travelled with his mother to the Six Nations reserve to visit family. Here he was taught guitar, particularly by his older cousin Herb Myke. 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 [[WWKB|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]].<ref name="whispering_pines">{{cite book|last1=Schneider|first1=Jason|title=Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band|date=2009|publisher=ECW Press|location=Toronto|isbn=978-1550228748|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-3YBAAAQBAJ|access-date=February 18, 2016|ref=whispering_pines}}</ref>{{rp|56}}<ref name="levon_helm_book1">{{cite book|last1=Helm|first1=Levon|author-link1=Levon Helm|last2=Davis|first2=Stephen|title=This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band|date=1993|publisher=William Morrow|location=New York|isbn=0688109063|edition=first}}</ref>{{rp|65–66}}

When Robertson was 12 years of age, as his mother was in the process of obtaining a divorce from James Robertson, she told him that his biological father was Alexander David Klegerman. Klegerman was a Jewish-American gambler<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/americana-indigenous-roots-robbie-robertson/|title=The Indigenous Roots of Robbie Robertson’s Rock and Roll Revolution|first=Jeet|last=Heer|date=August 14, 2023|via=www.thenation.com}}</ref> with whom Robertson's mother had been involved before her marriage to James Robertson. Klegerman had died in a hit-and-run accident on the [[Queen Elizabeth Way]] before Robbie Robertson was born. Robertson's mother arranged for her son to meet his paternal uncles, Morris (Morrie) and Nathan (Natie) Klegerman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hebrewbasicburial.ca/ServiceDetails.aspx?sid=3647&fg=1|title=Hebrew Basic Burial|website=hebrewbasicburial.ca|accessdate=August 29, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Jewish">{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/culture/354993/the-secret-jewish-history-of-robbie-robertson-and-the-band/|title=The Secret Jewish History of Robbie Robertson and The Band|date=November 23, 2016|website=The Forward|accessdate=August 29, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Testimony|last=Robertson|first=Robbie|publisher=Vintage Canada|year=2017|isbn=9780307401403|pages=60–62}}</ref> Robertson later stated that his uncles "'quickly pulled me into their world and went out of their way to make me feel like family'".<ref name="Jewish" />