Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae legend and founding member of the Wailers, has died.
The name of Wailer, born Neville Livingston, is inextricably linked to that of Bob Marley, whom he met as a child and with whom he founded the Waliers, a trio also composed by Peter Tosh.
Banny Wailer was born in Kingston and was 73 years old.
He died - as stated in the Jamaica Observer citing his manager Maxine Stowe - at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, a hospital where he was hospitalized last July after a stroke that hit him in July 2020.
With Wailer, who, in addition to singing, accompanied the trio with his bongo, all the members of the legendary reggae group disappear: Marley died of cancer on 11 May 1981, while Tosh was killed in his home in St Andrew on 11 September. 1987. He recorded eight albums with the Wailers, from 1965 to 1973, before starting his solo career.
Solo albums include Blackheart Man, released in 1976, and Rock 'n' Groove, released five years later.
Among his hit songs Cool Runnings, Ballroom Floor, Crucial and Bald Head Jesus
