Legendary Jamaican reggae musician Bunny Wailer is dead.

Wailer, born Neville Livingston, died aged 73 at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday morning.

“Yes. He died about 8:00 this morning. I'm still right here with him,” the singer’s manager Maxine Stowe told local publication Observer Online on Tuesday morning.

Wailer, who hailed from Trench Town, is reported to have been in and out of hospital several times since he suffered his second stroke in July last year.

He is a founding member of The Wailers, which included the late Robert Nesta Marley, popularly known as Bob Marley, and Peter Tosh.

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The Wailers. PHOTO/COURTESY

Marley died of cancer in May 11, 1981, while Tosh was murdered at his St Andrew home on September 11, 1987.

Among albums released by Bunny Wailer are Blackheart Man (1976), and Rock 'n' Groove which was released in 1981 and he had hit songs like Cool Runnings, Crucial, Ballroom Floor and Bald Head Jesus.

In 2017, he received an Order of Merit, Jamaica’s fourth highest honour, from the Government and later in February 2019 he also got a Reggae Gold Award in recognition of his contribution to Jamaican music.