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Together with Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, Peter Tosh is known as a Rastafari devotee. He has an estimated net worth of $3 million. Peter Tosh learned how to play the guitar after watching an old man playing a song. Within half a day, he memorized the movements of the old man's fingers.
His first solo debut album Legalize It was released in 1976 under the CBS Recording Company. It became popular to Rastafarians, people who love reggae music and those who promote the legalization of marijuana. In subsequent years, Tosh's career has boomed significantly that he was able to release his other albums which include Equal Rights, Bush Doctor, Mystic Man, Wanted Dread and Alive, Mama Africa and No Nuclear War.
Peter Tosh was killed in his Jamaican home during a robbery. On the same year he died, the Jamaican government awarded him with the third highest honor for a Jamaican, the order of Merit.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2014 |
Royalties |
Estimated value of Peter Tosh's royalties from his estate |
$2,000,000 |
|
2005 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Africa Unite: The Singles Collection with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 100 thousand copies sold) |
$130,000 |
|
2005 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Gold with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 40 thousand copies sold) |
$52,000 |
|
2001 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 535 thousand copies sold) |
$695,500 |
|
1999 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Chant Down Babylon with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 555 thousand copies sold) |
$721,500 |
|
1992 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the box set Songs of Freedom with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 2.14 million copies sold) |
$2,780,000 |
|
1987 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Rastaman Vibration with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1984 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Legend with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 28 million copies sold) |
$36,400,000 |
|
1980 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Uprising with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 781,200 copies sold) |
$1,020,000 |
|
1979 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Survival with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 587,400 copies sold) |
$763,620 |
|
1978 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the live album Babylon by Bus with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 682,100 copies sold) |
$886,730 |
|
1978 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Kaya with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 1,388,000 copies sold) |
$1,800,000 |
|
1977 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Exodus with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 1,473,100 copies sold) |
$1,920,000 |
|
1977 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Equal Rights (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1976 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Legalize It (approximately 1 million copies sold) |
$1,300,000 |
|
1975 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Live! with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 1,100,400 copies sold) |
$1,430,000 |
|
1974 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Burnin' with Bob Marley and the Wailers (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |