Bunny Wailer
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Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston, was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
Bunny Wailer, a singer songwriter and percussionist, was born Neville O'Riley Livingston on April 10, 1947 in Jamaica. Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh continued recording as the Wailers during the period of time that Marley was in Delaware.
Bunny Wailer toured with the Wailers in England and the United States, but soon became reluctant to leave Jamaica. He and Tosh became more marginalized in the group as the Wailers became an international success, and attention was increasingly focused on Marley. Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh subsequently left the Wailers to pursue solo careers. They were replaced by the I Threes, a move to broaden the base of success for the Wailers in the non-Jamaican market.
After leaving the Wailers, Bunny became more focused on his spiritual faith. He identified with the Rastafari movement, as did the other Wailers. He self-produced a number of his recordings after striking out on his own. He has also written much of his own material as well as re-recording a number of cuts from the Wailers catalogue. Bunny Wailer has recorded primarily in the roots style, in keeping with his often political and spiritual messages. He has also had success recording in the typically apolitical, more pop dancehall style. He has outlived his contemporaries in a culture were death by violence is commonplace.
Bunny Wailer has won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1990, 1994 and 1996.
Solo discography
- Blackheart Man, 1976
- Dubd'sco
- Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley
- Sings the Wailers
- Communication
- Crucial Roots Classics
- Retrospective
- Dance Massive
- Roots Radics Rockers Reggae
- Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley
- Rule Dance Hall
- Just be Nice
- Rootsman Skanking 1987
- Liberation 1989
- Gumption
- Protest
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