SINGER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bunny Wailer has received more than 1,799,065 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bunny Wailer is the 970th most popular singer (down from 896th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Jamaican Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Bunny Wailer ranks 970 out of 4,381. Before him are Chava Alberstein, Walter Andreas Schwarz, Randy Crawford, Nina Grieg, Célestine Galli-Marié, and Mariza. After him are Kate Ryan, Shi Pei Pu, Max Romeo, Clare Torry, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Alejandro Sanz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Bunny Wailer ranks 388. Before him are Coline Serreau, Lydia Davis, Nicolae Dobrin, Don Felder, Tatiana Tarasova, and Prince Hassan bin Talal. After him are Jaroslav Pollák, Deborah Lipstadt, Clare Torry, Ian Ashley, Peter Banks, and Takeshi Urata. Among people deceased in 2021, Bunny Wailer ranks 287. Before him are Hana Hegerová, William Smith, Jean-François Stévenin, Henry Darrow, Angelica Bella, and Andrej Hoteev. After him are Danilo Popivoda, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Peter R. de Vries, Johnny Pacheco, and Jessica Walter.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Bunny Wailer ranks 22 out of 189. Before him are Desmond Dekker (1941), Stephen Hopkins (1958), Asafa Powell (1982), Burning Spear (1945), Madge Sinclair (1938), and Sean Paul (1973). After him are Max Romeo (1944), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Patrick Allen (1951), Martine Beswick (1941), Cedella Booker (1926), and Mary Seacole (1805).

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Among SINGERS In Jamaica

Among singers born in Jamaica, Bunny Wailer ranks 5. Before him are Grace Jones (1948), Jimmy Cliff (1948), 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), and Yellowman (1956).

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