Reggae singer Cen’C Love, daughter of the late music icon Bunny Wailer, is back!

After a nine-year hiatus from recording music, Cen C’ Love will be releasing her drum-and-bass heavy EP, Elephant, on October 5.

“I’m fully rested and ready to take on the world,” the artiste whose real name is Ngeri Livingston, said. The singer is particularly pleased about the high production values of her self-produced album.

“I’ve been working on the music for this project for a few years. Writing, but mostly producing tracks. I’m a producer before I’m an artiste. I’m a very passionate musician, so it’s important for me to make that statement with any future projects. It’s easy for that to get lost under the hype.”

The project will be released via Glasswork 32. Some of the tracks are the lead single, Real Life (Habibi), My Room, and The Devil.

“Habibi is about fantasy lovers, a longing for physical connection. I have found myself in those kinds of relationships [with] very strong feelings that surpass the idea of being physical,” said Cen’C Love.

Habibi will be released next week on all digital music platforms.

“Habibi can be a virtual computer love connection, a long distance relationship, where we share a spiritual or mental connection, even a crush,” she mused.

Cen’C Love wrote and produced all of the album’s songs, as well as played keyboards, guitar, and percussion.

Why is the album called ‘Elephant‘?

“The elephant is a powerful figure in various traditional cultures, as it symbolises strength, wisdom, and good luck. Further, the elephant has a serious memory and memory is my legacy. It is a culmination of my upbringing in the US, my legacy is the Wailers, my love is reggae music, and plus, mi heavy…” she said, laughing.

Elephant is her second EP, coming 17 years after A Little More Time, her first project. Cen’C Love’s only album, Love Letter, was released in 2011.

She took a long hiatus from the recording side of the music business and immersed herself in the publishing world as she attempted to regulate the business affairs of her late father, Bunny Wailer, who died in 2021.

Her last commercial release was “Heart to Heart” produced by Billboard-charting Rohan ‘Snowcone’ Fuller in 2012.

“The album was done during COVID in 2020, and then my dad got sick. So I rallied around my father, that was my primary focus and then when he passed, I had to take some time, but I am ready now,” she said.

‘INCONSISTENCIES’ IN WAILER ESTATE

Ms. Livingston now resides in Miami, Florida, her home state. She wears several hats, moonlighting as a director of Solomonic Productions Limited, writing and producing music, and running her own limited liability company, all while homeschooling her two children.

“Florida just happens to be my birthplace. This is the best move I’ve ever made,” she said.

It has been a challenging situation, navigating the circuitous world of music publishing and intellectual property, while fighting to keep her father’s incredible music legacy alive.

“It’s been a difficult journey. It was hard on my conscience to deliver my own project while my dad’s business was in a state of disarray. Right now, we have been making great progress, but we’re still dealing with some issues and as a result of that, I often put my own projects on the back burner, but this project is a gift of love because I really owe it to my fans,” she said.

Ms. Livingston said she is “extremely frustrated” with ‘inconsistencies’ in the administration of her father’s estate by Abijah Livingston (her brother), the executor of the Bunny Wailer estate.

“There still hasn’t been a probate (of the will) and we are probably a year away from the probate of my father’s will. The first co-executor, Carlton Livingston, applied for probate in 2021, but Abijah stopped that process and he hasn’t completed the probate process so the estate is in limbo,” she said.

The estate’s co-executor Carlton Livingston, Bunny Wailer’s brother, eventually passed away in 2023, leaving Abijah as the sole executor.

“It’s been four years….four long years. Daddy worked so hard to own his intellectual property and my brother is doing everything to undo my father’s hard work, but it won’t happen on my watch. I am working within the law to address some of the issues with the company, Solomonic Production, but the estate business will resolve itself,” she said.

At the time of Bunny Wailer’s death, the directors of the Solomonic Productions Limited were Maxine Stowe, Carlton Livingston (deceased), Jean Watt (presumed missing), Abijah Livingston and Ngeri Livingston. As it stands, Jean Watt, who has been missing since 2020 and Abijah Livingston are the only directors of the company’s documents.

“Since the passing of my father, Bunny Wailer, any changes made to the structure of the company and the passing along of the IP and masters rights, were premature and illegal,” Cen C Love stated.

She believes that her upcoming EP will help to honour her father’s legacy.

Born in the United States, Cen’C Love followed her father’s path into music 20 years ago and has recorded a number of songs, including What About Love and These Lies.

She is best known for the radio hit single Casanova from the ‘Love Letter’ album several years ago, and her stand-alone single, Little More Time.