His extensive talent and easy going personality led him to performing with such Gospel greats as Grammy-winner Tramaine Hawkins, Kim Burrell, and Donovan Jackson & Joshua Generation. *Various members of the band will be touring as their individual schedules permit. He later recorded or performed with R&B and Hip-Hop stars, including Common, Q-Tip, Quincy Jones, Kanye, Mary J. Blige, and Solange Knowles. Josh David stands firm and authentic in the singing spotlight.Currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Josh David prides himself as a bridge between Reggae’s former and latter spiritual and musical “troditions.” Joining forces with the world’s most well known Reggae band, he is grateful and honored to be a part of this renowned team of musicians, guided for decades by his distant cousin, bassist Aston “Familyman” Barrett.As a youth in New Jersey, Josh David grew up in church. That praise comes after decades of playing and performing.
Gong” Marley’s album “Half-Way Tree”, Stephen “Ragga” Marley “Mind Control” and also Damian “JR. Like Bob Marley, his enthusiastic performances keep steadfast in honoring the life and legacy of Ethiopia’s “Talaku Meri/Great Leader” Emperor Haile Selassie I. He has worked on the albums “Lion in the Morning”, “Time and a Place” and “Awake”. It was Bob Marley himself that requested the Wailers stayed together. Josh David has a commanding task as The Wailers band lead vocalist. FOH/Sound engineer is Christian Cowlin, a Wailers Band veteran who has traveled the world with The Wailers for more than 20 years and who is responsible for the band’s live sound.
Guitarist Donald Kinsey is joined by Wendel ‘Junior Jazz’ Ferraro, shaping that classic sonic identity. Aswad’s Brinsley Forde, Sly & Robbie’s Robbie Shakespeare, and Bob’s son Julian Marley have all benefited from working with the maestro. This begun his journey with music and learning to play the guitar.One day while meditating on Hellshire Beach in Kingston he met a gentlemen who said he had a guitar book and guitar that he did not want because he could not play. Some of those tapes are of famous concerts, like Brown performing at Reggae Sunsplash at Jarrett Park in the early 1980s or Pablo playing JapanSplash. This name came about when Fams, Carly, keyboardist Glen Adams, guitarist Alva “Reggie” Lewis, and singer Max Romeo were playing a hotel gig. Aswad’s Brinsley Forde, Sly & Robbie’s Robbie Shakespeare, and Bob’s son Julian Marley have all benefited from working with the maestro. They recorded as The Hippy Boys with Bob, Peter, and Bunny until 1969; that’s when they were asked to join as a full band. Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades. A student who has studied his uncle, Aston Jr. has the remarkable distinction of sounding just like Carly Barrett. This was the start to his musical career.In 1980 he headed out to Bob Marley’s Studio to audition as a singer at 56 Hope Road, in Kingston. Donald’s next project, the short-lived power trio White Lightnin’, was signed to Island Records, which led to his celebrated stints with labelmates Peter Tosh and Bob Marley. Growing up watching his father create, record, and perform, it makes sense that Aston Jr.’s passion is the bass. In 2004, he began playing bass in Julian Marley’s Uprising band. Throughout the late ‘60s, The Hippy Boys were a number one show/dance band, often performing inside Kingston’s Sheraton Hotel Junkanoo Lounge, the Sombrero Club, and the Jump In Line Festival at Half Way Tree Square. He has had the opportunity to work with world renowned Artist such as Jimmy Cliff, The Abyssinians, and Ericka Badu. Like Bob Marley, his enthusiastic performances keep steadfast in honoring the life and legacy of Ethiopia’s “Talaku Meri/Great Leader” Emperor Haile Selassie I. A highlight of that Kingston journey was performing on a stage that also featured Chronixx, Jesse Royal, and Bongo Herman.On a UN trip to Tunisia to perform a series of US Embassy-endorsed shows, Josh David remembers the kindness of the Rasta youth he met there. His dedication to Rastafari continues, exemplified in the conscious lifestyle he lives. He has contributed to Bob Marley & The Wailers being named Band of the Year by Rolling Stone Magazine in 1976, the Exodus album named Album of the Century by Time Magazine in 1999, and the song “One Love” named Song of the Millennium in 2000.By age 23, Donald Kinsey had already earned his place in music history, having played in the bands of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Albert King. The legendary Wailers continue their quest to bring reggae to the forefront of the world's stage. One World - The Wailers Announce First Album in 26 Years.
The legacy continues. Fams recalls, “we were all hooked up, we were a team.” Their first gig as Bob Marley & The Wailers was in London’s the Lyceum Ballroom in 1975.Respected as a musical genius and one on the finest and most influential bass players of all times, Aston “Familyman” Barrett received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from Bass Player magazine. They recorded as The Hippy Boys with Bob, Peter, and Bunny until 1969; that’s when they were asked to join as a full band. He began at age three, and the first bass line he learned was “Positive Vibration,” played entirely on the E-string. Afterwards, he returned to the family.