Beverley Kelso (born April 1948)^[1] is a Jamaican singer best known as an early member of The Wailers.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she attended Miss Nembhard Preparatory School and Denham Town Primary School in Kingston.^[1]

She was a backing vocalist, and one of the founding members of The Wailers (between 1963 and 1965).^[2] According to Kelso, she sang on 25 tracks by the group, the last in late 1965.^[1]

Kelso emigrated to the United States in 1979.^[3]

The deaths of Junior Braithwaite in 1999, of Cherry Smith in 2008, and of Bunny Wailer in 2021 have left Kelso as the only surviving founding member of the Wailers.^[4]

In 2012 she stated that she was planning to write a book about her time in The Wailers.^[3] She now lives in Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

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