Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer , of its true name Neville O' Riley Livingston, born on April 10th, 1947, is one of the founding members of the group The Wailers with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. It is Chanteur, Compositeur, and percussion nist nyabinghi.

Biography

It meets Bob Marley as of childhood, the two friends will be later the pupils of Joe Higgs, which teaches all its musical knowledge to them. It is at that time that they meet some Peter Tosh. The three friends will create Teenagers successively, then The Wailing Rude Servant boys and finally The Wailing Wailers. It is Bunny Wailer which will make the vocal harmonies in the group.

After having worked with Leslie Kong, it is at Studio One, with Clement Coxsone Dodd whom they will acquire their notoriety. Wailers indeed will leave not less than 70 individual for Studio 1, in the respect of the style of the time: resumptions of pieces Drunk and original pieces like Simmer Down affluent.

Bunny Wailer, rather discrete in general, can be there at the good moment and it is thus him which one finds with the song on the song Sunday Morning . When Bob Marley leaves to try its chance in the United States, it records very good titles among which one can quote Dreamland and Rock Sweet Rock . In 1967, its musical career knows a crushing argument when it is arrested and imprisoned for detention of Marijuana.

Of return within Wailers, it takes part in the creation of the label Wailing' N Soul. The fans know that it is Bunny Wailer which poses its voice on the titles Riding High , Brain Washing and Rebel' S hop . It is at the time of the collaboration of Wailers with Lee Perry, that the latter fact a remix of Dreamland . It is also at that time that it creates its own label Solomonic (1972).

Period Island of Wailers, one especially retains that it is on their second album, Burnin , that he assumes the role of singer solo on Hallellujah Time and Pass It One . He also sings on Catch has Fire . In 1973, tired, he refuses to make the American round of Wailers and is replaced by his mentor Joe Higgs.

Very attached to its island and not liking neither the plane, nor the rounds, it separates from the Wailers to start a career solo when the group starts to have an international success (1974). Peter and begin to him from the careers solos. It is thus on its Solomonic label, that Bunny Wailer will leave individual the Rastaman , in 1974, and Arabs oil Weapon in 1975. It publishes its first album solo, Blackheart Man , in 1976. It is a compilation of its individual which will be a good success. The albums Protest follow, in 1977, and Struggle , in 1979, as well as a participation in the original soundtrack of the film Rockers and tubes it Love Fire .

In 1980, it leaves an album resumption of the titles of Wailers of the Island time. Contrary to Peter Tosh, it will preserve good relationships with Bob Marley, until the death of this one in 1981. Then produced, with died of this last, the famous Tribute , in memory of his/her friend of childhood.

Bunny Wailer takes, then, a little retreat with the advent of the era of the digital in the reggae of the 80' S. To the favor of the project Never Ending Wailers, it tries to reform Wailers with Peter Tosh and Junior Braithwaite, but in spite of the success of a first title Nice Time , they run up against the refusal of Rita Marley which inherited the royalties of her husband. Then Peter Tosh is assassinated in 1987. Bunny continues to write, but is done more discrete. The disc resulting from this project will spend ten years to be born, in 1994. Unfortunately, he will suffer at his exit from a completely anachronistic sound.

In 2007, Bunny Wailer is always active on the scene reggae and turns in the whole world. It, in 2006, took part in documentary film/Made In Jamaica.

Discography Solo

  • Blackheart Man 1976

  • Sings the Wailers 1980
  • Struggle 1980
  • Rock' Groove 1981
  • Hook Line & Sinker 1982
  • Marketplace 1985
  • Protest 1987
  • Roots Radics Rockers Reggae 1988
  • Rootsman Skanking 1987
  • Rule Dance Hall 1987
  • Release 1989
  • Time Will Such: In Tribute to Bob Marley 1990
  • Gumption 1991
  • Dance Massive 1992
  • Just Be Nice 1993
  • Crucial Roots Classics , Retrospective compilation 1994
  • , compilation 1995
  • Hall off Famed: In Tribute to Bob Marley 1995
  • Dubd' sco 1999
  • Communication 2000

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