
Former Skatalites member, Jah Jerry, is dead
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Friday, August 17, 2007
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| Standing (from left), are: Singer Derrick Morgan; Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, the Opposition spokesperson on culture; Eric Monty Morris; former prime minister, Edward Seaga; Prince Buster; Carla Seaga; and Owen Gray. |
Pioneer Jamaican musician, Jerome Hines, better known as 'Jah Jerry', died on Monday in hospital after a short illness. He was 80.
The guitarist, who was a founding member of the legendary Skatalites Band, is seen at front (in glasses), in this file photograph with a number of his contemporaries, themselves Jamaican music pioneers at a Heineken Startime vintage showcase in celebration of Jamaica's 40th anniversary of Independence in August 2002 at the Mass Camp in Kingston.
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