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RIP Leonard Dillon, Reggae pioneer & lead singer for the Ethiopians

maega — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:16:48 +0000

“Leonard Dillon, the leader of the pioneering reggae group, The Ethiopians, has died in Jamaica at the age of 68.

Dillon began his career using the stage name, Jack Sparrow, in the early 1960s.

He recorded a series of ska songs, including Bull Whip, which featured a young Bob Marley on backing vocals.

Dillon later formed The Ethiopians, a trio whose best known hits were Train to Skaville and Everything Crash.

His daughter, Patrice Dillon, says her father died on Wednesday at her home of lung and prostate cancer.

She says Dillon had been diagnosed with cancer in June and underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour earlier this year.

Dillon is survived by seven children.”

- Boston Globe

R.I.P. Sugar Minott

maega — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:37:13 +0000

“Sugar Minott, a popular Jamaican singer whose joyful, lilting voice bridged four decades of transformation in reggae music, died Saturday in Kingston, the nation’s capital. He was 54.”
read obituary here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/arts/music/14minott.html

Pioneering reggae star Alton Ellis dies in London

maega — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:01:23 +0000

The Associated Press
Saturday, October 11, 2008

LONDON: Reggae music pioneer Alton Ellis, who enjoyed a career revival in recent years after a string of hits in the 1960s, has died in a London hospital. He was 70.

Officials at Hammersmith Hospital said Ellis died “peacefully” Friday and that his family did not wish to release further details. He had been hospitalized for several weeks.

In a tribute to Ellis posted on its Web site, Trojan Records on Saturday mourned “the passing of a reggae legend” and said Ellis had been suffering lymphatic cancer. He collapsed during a club performance in London in August and never recovered his health, the record company said.

Ellis was known as “the Godfather of rocksteady” and enjoyed a string of hits in Jamaica during the very early days of reggae.

At the beginning of his career, he had several hits while fronting the vocal group “The Flames,” including “Dance Crasher,” “I’m Just a Guy” and “Sunday Coming.
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He began his career in the late 1950s, before Jamaican music had earned a worldwide following, and recorded for many local producers before launching his own All-tone label.

Ellis moved to Canada and then to England in the 1970s as his career went into decline, but he returned to popularity in the last 15 years because of a rocksteady trend in Jamaica and Europe.

Ellis is survived by his wife and more than 20 children.

Funeral plans were not immediately announced.