Barry Llewellyn of the hugely influential harmony trio, the Heptones, has passed away. Reports started surfacing before Thanksgiving but I waited till there was more info to post. It’s sad that yet another true genius and revered performer has gone to the great stage in the sky.
News report have been filed on sites [...]
As first reported yesterday on the IrieFM website and now confirmed from the Jamaican Observer The Ethiopian Leonard Dillon passed away yesterday from lung and prostate cancer.
According to his daughter, Patrice, he was first diagnosed with a brain a tumour and he did an operation in February to [...]
Various Reports say original Itals and Terrors singer Lloyd Ricketts passed away last Thursday July 21 in Jamaica. Born Lloyd George Ricketts born on Sept. 23, 1947 and went on to play with various groups over the years but always a true Ital.
The Itals formed in 1976 around the vocal harmonies of Alvin “Keith” [...]
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