The Wailers Trio Rastaman 50 album arrives digitally through VP Records on November 13, 2026, with Jamaican singers Blvk H3ro, J Written and Dahvid Slur stepping into the vocal trio tradition of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. Announced this week and reported in detail by DancehallMag, the project is a legacy release with a clear historical marker: it lands fifty years after the three original Wailers each released landmark solo albums in 1976.
For Toronto’s Caribbean diaspora, reggae’s foundation era is not distant history. The Wailers songbook is part of this city’s soundtrack, played in barbershops, community halls and Carnival season warm ups across the GTA, and a new generation of Jamaican voices re recording that material is exactly the kind of major Caribbean release this desk exists to cover.
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A vision that started with Bunny Wailer
The project is led by Maxine Stowe, CEO and executive producer of Black Atlantic Sounds (BASS), and it carries forward a vision conceived by the late Bunny Wailer himself: preserve reggae’s vocal trio tradition by handing it to younger singers rather than freezing it in tribute shows. Bunny Wailer, the last surviving original Wailer until his death in March 2021, had argued for years that the trio format was reggae’s foundation and deserved a living future.
Blvk H3ro, pointing fans to the Friday the 13th release date, described the source material in his own words:
Word sound power, from Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, the trio he calls the root.
He also gave, in DancehallMag’s reporting of his post, massive respect to VP Records and Maxine Stowe for pushing out the works. VP, the New York label central to reggae and dancehall distribution for decades, is the natural home for a project rooted this deeply in the genre’s foundations, and a vinyl pressing is planned alongside the digital release.
Dreamland and the family connection
The album’s featured track is Dreamland, Bunny Wailer’s beloved solo classic, and its casting carries the project’s most personal turn: lead vocals come from Cen’C Love, born Ngeri Livingston, Bunny Wailer’s daughter. Dreamland will be supported by a visualizer and a coordinated digital campaign, according to the rollout details shared with One876 Entertainment.
The trio format itself is the point. Blvk H3ro, J Written and Dahvid Slur each bring distinct styles, and the record is built on the harmonies and consciousness associated with traditional roots reggae, blended with contemporary influences. In 1976, Marley, Tosh and Wailer were three solo artists proving the trio’s members could each carry a landmark album. Fifty years on, Rastaman 50 reverses the exercise: three younger artists proving the trio itself still works.
What happens after release
The rollout extends past November 13. The Wailers Trio is slated to perform at the Trench Town Music Festival in February 2027, during Jamaica’s annual Reggae Month celebrations, which puts the album on a stage in the neighbourhood where the original Wailers formed. For Canadian listeners, the record lands in a season when Toronto dancehall has just filled Scotiabank Arena for Mavado’s return, proof on this side of the border that the music’s foundation acts and its new voices can both draw.
Rastaman 50 is available to presave now ahead of its November 13 release on VP Records. Legacy projects live or die on whether the new voices sound like students or like heirs. On the evidence of the team Bunny Wailer’s own camp has assembled, this one is aiming firmly at heirs.
