Ngeri Livingston, the daughter of the late Bunny Wailer, is gearing up to expand the merchandising arm of her father’s estate with the release of a special, limited edition of the Blackheart Man line.

The limited edition Bunny Wailer Blackheart Man merch will be made available through the website, www.bunnywailerofficial.com.

“My father was never merchandised, he resisted every corporate attempt to water down his anti-imperialist, Rasta message. Bunny Wailer was never commodified, he was nyabinghi, repatriation and Rasta, so this is a big deal,” Livingston said.

“The line already includes t-shirts and flags but we are also packaging special Blackheart Man t-shirts with merchandising items like key rings, cups etc at an affordable price point. The t-shirts will have slogans from the album itself like Blackheart Man, Dream Land, Amagideon and Rastaman,” Livingston, who is also known as singer Cen C’Love, said.

In an era of miniscule music royalties when an artist’s survival often depends on sponsorship and licensing deals, merchandising has emerged as a way to generate funds for a deceased artiste’s estate.

Bunny Wailer is famous for his revolutionary Afrocentric politics and Rastafarian worldview all throughout his career. The late singer himself considered Blackheart Man to be his best solo album, exceptional for the ‘message’ of anti-imperialist, post-colonialist message. Universal Records owns the masters of the album.

This is one of the three Wailers solo albums released in 1976, along with Peter Tosh’s album, Legalize It, and Bob Marley’s Rastaman Vibration.

The album was listed in the 1999 book, The Rough Guide: Reggae: 100 Essential CDs.

Ms Livingston said that the 50th Anniversary of Bunny Wailer’s Blackheart Man album is part of the larger “Wailers 50th” celebrations, marking the first solo albums of the Wailers triad.

“All three albums went on to be huge reggae classics, further cementing the Wailers as a serious force in the music industry,” she said.

The songs on the album are regarded as the finest written by Bunny Wailer, and explores themes such as repatriation, in Dreamland, and his arrest for marijuana possession, in Fighting Against Conviction. Other standout songs include This Train, a song loosely based on the American gospel standard of the same name.

The album features some of Jamaica’s leading musicians and also contributions from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh of the Wailers on backing vocals, and the Wailers rhythm section of Carlton and Aston Barrett on some of the tracks.

“My father was very passionate about preserving the legacy of the Wailers brotherhood. These three projects overlapped creatively, sharing music, composition, each other’s voices and even a mutual album cover artiste. I’ve best heard someone compare the Wailer dynamic to the Wu-Tang Clan; each member is a unique artist with their own independent aspirations, they lived as brothers, even beyond the so-called split,” Livingston said.

Cen C’Love believes that the year 2026 is “perfect for so many of us to finish what we started”. She is planning to release an album this year.

“I have never felt more honored to be part of this amazing legacy. I’ve really been looking forward to this tribute and my guitar has been missing in action,” she promised.

This album will come 18 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 who died in 2021.