Reggae legend Bunny Wailer dies
Bunny Wailer
KINGSTON, Jamaica Bunny Livingstone Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving member of the legendary group The Wailers, died yesterday in his native Jamaica. He was 73.
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston. They catapulted to international fame with the album, “Catch a Fire.” The Wailers and other Rasta musicians popularised Rastafarian culture among better-off Jamaicans starting in the 1970s.
The young Neville (also known as Bunny Wailer or Bunny Livingston or simply Jah B) spent his earliest years in the village of Nine Mile in St Ann Parish. It was there that he first met Bob Marley, and the two toddlers befriended each other quickly.
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston.