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Bunny Wailer (1947-2021)
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He was one of the three central members of what is arguably the largest reggae supergroup: in the 1960s and 1970s, Bunny Wailer sang alongside Bob Marley and Peter Tosh for the Wailers.
Wailer and Marley were not only musically but also familial: Wailer's father had a child with Marley's mother.
The band had their first hit in 1964 with the song "Simmer Down".
Probably the best-known piece of the three reggae greats 'time together is the combative »Get Up, Stand Up«, which appeared on the 1973 album »Burnin'«.
A year later, both Tosh and Wailer separated from the common band, which then became the accompanying ensemble of the later superstar Marley.
Bunny Wailer, who was born under the real name Neville Livingston, then continued solo under his stage name.
He got three Grammys in the course of his career, he played several albums.
As his manager of the US edition of "Rolling Stone" confirmed, Bunny Wailer died on Tuesday in a hospital in Kingstown, Jamaica.
Further reasons about his death are not known, but after his second stroke the musician had repeatedly spent time in the hospital.
With him the last founding member of the Wailers died;
Bob Marley died of cancer in 1981, Peter Tosh was shot in 1987.
Bunny Wailer was 73 years old.
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