Constantine "Dream" Walker
Artist. Ska, rocksteady, reggae
- Active
- 1964-present
- Sunrise
- October 19, 1951, Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica
- Also known as
- Dream, Vision, Constantine Walker, Constantine Antonio Walker, Vision Walker
Constantine "Dream" Walker, later known as Vision, is a singer and guitarist from Trench Town who sang in the Soulettes, was briefly a member of the Wailers, and spent much of his later career in the bands of Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and the Melody Makers.
His cousin Rita Anderson, later Rita Marley, encouraged him to sing at thirteen, and he was an original member of her group the Soulettes, with Marlene "Precious" Gifford; within a year they were signed to Coxsone Dodd's Studio One. He sang with the Wailers for a short time alongside Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, and he was one of the voices, with Rita and Norma Fraser, on Tosh's "Rasta Shook Them Up," cut at Studio One without Bob Marley to celebrate Haile Selassie's visit. When the Wailers left Kingston for Nine Mile in 1967 and 1968, Bunny Wailer counted him among them: "Rita, Vision, Bob, Peter."
In New York he played rhythm guitar in the band of the musical Reggae in 1980 and was a member of Jah Malla and other groups. He worked with Tosh on sessions and tours from 1981 to 1987, on Bunny Wailer's Market Place in the mid-1980s, and with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers from 1989 to 1993.
Last updated November 5, 2026
Connections
- The Wailers (band)
- Peter Tosh (bandmate)
- Bunny Wailer (bandmate)
- Rita Marley (bandmate)
- Ziggy Marley (bandleader)
- Coxsone Dodd (producer)
- Norma Fraser (collaborator)
Notes
- "Constantine 'Vision' Walker," Wikipedia, accessed October 21, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_%22Vision%22_Walker, citing Roger Steffens and Leroy Jodie Pierson, Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography (2005).
- "Constantine 'Vision' Walker."
- "Constantine 'Vision' Walker." One online Marley compendium says he replaced Marley during Marley's months in Delaware in 1966: "The Wailers at Studio One," wailer.de, accessed November 5, 2026, https://www.wailer.de/part-1/chapter-2-the-wailers-at-studio-one/. Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd ed. (London: Rough Guides, 2004), 79, which calls Rita "her cousin Constantine 'Dream' Walker."
- "Bunny Wailer About the Wailers in 1966-1968," Reggaeville, January 30, 2022, https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/bob-marley/news/view/bunny-wailer-about-the-wailers-in-1966-1968-reggaeville-yearbook-2021/, from the Reggaeville Yearbook 2021. Discogs credits for Tosh's albums of the 1980s (Mama Africa, Captured Live, No Nuclear War) do not name him, so his session and touring work with Tosh rests on Wikipedia.
- "Constantine 'Vision' Walker."
