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Neville Livingston
Bunny Wailer
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Singer, songwriter and percussionist and an original member of the Wailers, along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

Better known as Bunny Wailer, he grew up in Kingston, Jamaica with Marley and Tosh. The three youths began learning to play instruments and singing together, which evolved into the legendary group the Wailers. Bunny was a singer whose strong tenor vocals were used primarily as a harmony singer, but occasionally sang lead.

He toured with the Wailers in England and the United States, but soon became reluctant to leave Jamaica. He and Tosh became more marginalised in the group as the Wailers became an international success and attention was increasingly focussed on Marley. He left the Wailers in 1974 to pursue a successful solo career, and also started his own record label, Solomonic, which he used to release all his solo works in Jamaica.

In 1996, he won his third Grammy award for his tribute to Bob Marley, Hall of Fame, which was released on RAS Records.

He and Beverley Kelso are the only surviving members of the original Wailers.