page_title: Bunny Wailer
section_title: Solo career
hierarchical_section_title: Bunny Wailer / Solo career
caption_attribution_description: Bunny Wailer performs at the 2008 Smile Jamaica Concert
context_page_description: Neville O'Riley Livingston, OM, best known as Bunny Wailer, is a Jamaican singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. A three-time Grammy award winner, he is considered one of the longtime standard-bearers of reggae music. He is also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately Jah B.
context_section_description: After leaving the Wailers, He experimented with disco on his album Hook Line & Sinker while Sings the Wailers successfully reworks many of The Wailers songs with the backing of top Jamaican musicians, Sly and Robbie. He has also had success recording in the typically apolitical, more pop, dancehall style.  He has outlived his contemporaries in a culture where death by violence is commonplace.
  However, he also had a dancehall/Rockers edge that was best exemplified by the album Bunny Wailer Sings the Wailers in which he re-interprets some of the Wailers material as a solo Roots singer backed by a solid Sly & Robbie based Roots reggae grouping. The album produced by Bunny Wailer, was recorded at Harry J Studio. Some of these tracks are re-worked classic Wailers tracks (e.g. "Dreamland" — a cover of El Tempos' "My Dream Island" with slightly reworked lyrics that became Bunny's signature song. This was first recorded in 1966 by Clement Coxsone Dodd, and later in 1970 with Lee "Scratch" Perry, then, released as a 7" in 1971 with a U-Roy version on the B-side). Another classic is "Dancing Shoes", first recorded in the mid-1960s as a driving ska/soul classic with Bunny Wailer as lead vocal.
  Bunny Wailer has won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1991 for the album "Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley",  1995 for "Crucial! Roots Classics", and 1997 for "Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley 's 50th Anniversary (RAS)". He was also featured on the album True Love by Toots and the Maytals, which won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album, and showcased many notable musicians including Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Trey Anastasio, Gwen Stefani / No Doubt, Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, Manu Chao, The Roots, Ryan Adams, Keith Richards, Toots Hibbert, Paul Douglas, Jackie Jackson, Ken Boothe, and The Skatalites.
  Today, Bunny resides in Kingston and on a farm located in the interior of Jamaica (Saint Thomas), according to Bob Marley's official website. Bunny Wailer and Beverley Kelso are the only surviving members of the original Wailers.
  In August 2012 it was announced that Bunny Wailer would receive Jamaica's fifth highest honour, the Order of Jamaica.
  In 2016, he played a month-long 'Blackheart Man' tour to celebrated the 40th anniversary of his 1976 album.
  In October 2017 he was awarded the Order of Merit by the Jamaican government, the nation's fourth-highest honour.
  In October 2018, Wailer suffered a minor stroke, resulting in speech problems.
  In November 2019, Wailer received a Pinnacle Award in New York from the Coalition to Preserve Reggae.
caption: Bunny Wailer at Smile Jamaica, 2008
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