Jamaican singer and percussionist Bunny Wailer, reggae legend, died Tuesday at the age of 73 at Andrew's Memorial Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica.
Jamaican Culture Minister Olivia Grange herself broke the news.
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She did not specify the cause of death of Neville Livingston, real name, founding member of The Wailers with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, who made reggae a worldwide phenomenon.
Passed by ska and rocksteady in the 1960s, he recorded the albums
Catch a Fire
and
Burnin
'with his two friends at the start of the following decade.
He then left the group in 1974 to devote himself to his solo career.
His first album
Blackheart Man
, released two years later, met with real public and critical success.
He began a rich career, crowned with three Grammy Awards - in 1991 (for
Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley
), 1995 (for
Crucial! Roots Classics
) and in 1997 for
Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary
.
Decorated with the Order of Merit by the Jamaican government in 2017, he was a true icon in his homeland.