Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston was born April 10, 1947, in Jamaica, is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of The Wailers with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. His father, Toddy Livingston had a daughter, named Pearl Livingston, with Bob Marley’s mother Cedella Booker. Being the least forceful of the trio, he tended to sing lead vocals less often than Marley and Tosh in the early years, but when Bob Marley left Jamaica in 1966 for Delaware, to be replaced by Constantine “Vision” Walker, he began to record and sing lead on some of his own compositions, such as “Who Feels It Knows It”, “I Stand Predominant” and “Sunday Morning”.

By 1973, each of the three founding Wailers operated their own label, Bob Marley was operating Tuff Gong, Peter Tosh with H.I.M. Intel Diplo, and Bunny Wailer with Solomonic. Bunny Wailer toured with the Wailers in the US and England, but soon became reluctant to leave Jamaica. He and Tosh became more marginalized in the group as the Wailers became an international success. More attention was increasingly focused on Marley, which led Bunny to subsequently leave the Wailers to pursue a solo career, which continues in the present.