In Da Beginning
The singing bug bit Bahamian music superstar Kirkland “K.B.” Bodie early. He was born
in the Bahamian Capital, New Providence to Ortland H. Bodie Sr. (Androsian
Native) and Beatrice Outten (Native of the Turks and Caicos Islands). Young
Kirkland spent a few years of his childhood in the United States with his
parents before moving back to the Bahamas to reside with his mother in Jones
Town, Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama.

There in Eight Mile Rock, (which is the largest settlement in the country), Kirkland tiptoed
in the footprints of his older siblings whom he idolized. Music was everywhere
for young Kirk who spent his weekdays with his mother in Eight Mile Rock and
his weekends with his father in the city of Freeport. At his mother’s house his
older brother and sister often sang the native Goombay songs they heard on the
radio. The duo even did a recording during their high school years at Eight
Mile Rock High, further inspiring the budding singer. Years later Kirk would
continue to list Baha