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Bunny Wailer

1947 - 2021

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Neville O'Riley Livingston (10 April 1947 – 2 March 2021), known professionally as Bunny Wailer, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and percussionist. He 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 was also known as Jah B, Bunny O'Riley, and Bunny Livingston. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bunny Wailer is the 1,062nd most popular singer (down from 970th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Jamaican Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Bunny Wailer ranks 1,062 out of 4,381Before him are Mark Tornillo, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Kikki Danielsson, Caterina Caselli, Inger Jacobsen, and Rambo Amadeus. After him are Al Atkins, Carlos Marín, Nicky Hopkins, Seid Memić Vajta, Betty Curtis, and Elisabeth Söderström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Bunny Wailer ranks 416Before him are Tamotsu Suzuki, Małgorzata Braunek, Robert Levin, Su Tseng-chang, Akira Terao, and Anny Duperey. After him are Al Atkins, Tatiana Tarasova, Goran Paskaljević, Kim Yoon-ok, Đurđica Bjedov, and Stephen A. Schwarzman. Among people deceased in 2021, Bunny Wailer ranks 299Before him are Giuseppe Rotunno, Friederike Mayröcker, Alfreda Markowska, Hana Hegerová, Verónica Forqué, and Christa Stubnick. After him are Carlos Marín, Cristóbal Halffter, Peter Swan, Tormod Knutsen, Jean-Pierre Bacri, and Jaime Lerner.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Bunny Wailer ranks 30 out of 189Before him are Stephen Hopkins (1958), Shaggy (1968), Patrick Ewing (1962), Sean Paul (1973), Mary Seacole (1805), and DJ Kool Herc (1955). After him are Desmond Dekker (1941), Burning Spear (1945), Norman Manley (1893), Veronica Campbell-Brown (1982), Carol (null), and Prince Buster (1938).

Among SINGERS In Jamaica

Among singers born in Jamaica, Bunny Wailer ranks 5Before him are Liz Mitchell (1952), and Burning Spear (1945). After him are Max Romeo (1944), Cedella Booker (1926), Shaggy (1968), Carl Douglas (1942), Errol Brown (1948), Gregory Isaacs (1951), Yellowman (1956), Jacob Miller (1952), Alton Ellis (1938), and Millie Small (1947).