Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh had common-law marriage with Andrea Marlene Brown and the couple did not have any children. But Peter had 10 children from previous relationships. The 10 children include 5 sons and 5 daughters.

He was murdered at this residence in Jamaica, by a gang of three men who refused to leave his house unless Tosh gave them money.

Winston Hubert McIntosh was born on October 19, 1944 to parents who were way too young to raise him, in Jamaica. Instead, he was raised by his aunt in Grange Hill.

While he lived with his aunt, he became extremely inspired by American radio stations and developed an interest for singing and playing the guitar from a very young age.

In the early 1960s he moved to Kingston and started selling sugarcane juice. It was during this time, he befriended Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer.

The trio began going to Joe Higgs, their voice tutor and began to hone their individual music talents. They soon realized their dreams and got together to form the band, ‘The Wailers’ in 1962.

They started playing for covers of American pop hits and they slowly rose to fame.

Tosh was critical to the group because he was the only self-taught keyboardist and guitarist out of the three.

By the 1970s, a number of other members had joined the band. The group signed a record deal with Chris Blackwell and Island Records Company and debuted commercially with ‘Catch A Fire’ in 1973. The same year, they released their second studio album, ‘Burnin’.

An accident the same year changed his life forever. Chris Blackwell from Island Records refused to sign Tosh for a solo album in 1974 and in response to this, Tosh and Bunny Wailer left ‘The Wailers’, citing Blackwell’s ‘unfair treatment’ as the reason.

In 1976, he released his solo debut album, ‘Legalize It’, under CBS Records. The title track was a hit and reggae music lovers and Rastafarians from across the world began to endorse the single in the album. The next year, he released his second solo album, ‘Equal Rights’.

‘Burnin’, released in 1973, was the fourth studio album released by him under Chris Blackwell and ‘The Wailers’. The track, ‘Burnin’ was ranked #151 and #41 on Billboard’s Pop Albums and Black Albums charts. Rolling Stone magazine also rated the alum #319 on the list of ‘500 greatest albums of all time’. Recently, in 2007, the album was added to the ‘Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry’.