Barrington Levy’s business partner and booking agent Daddy Biggs says the singer will honour his gig in Trinidad and Tobago next weekend after being shot and injured at his James Hill, Clarendon home on Tuesday.

“This will be his first performance after this crazy, nutty situation. The bullet just grazed his back; I think he is just glad to be alive,” Biggs told Jamaica Observer’s weekly Splash yesterday.

Levy is scheduled to perform at Magnum Tonic Wine’s Explosion Inferno in Port of Spain on June 9. Capleton and Sizzla Kalonji are also on the bill.

Biggs said he was speaking to Levy on the phone about new projects prior to the incident, but said he did not have all the details.

“I had just gotten off the phone with him when, a couple minutes later, his wife called me and she was frantic on the phone… I asked her what was going on and she told me Barrington got shot. I started freaking out and I got really nervous. You know they are killing our leaders — I just found it ironic at this time. I’ve been shot before, so I told her to put some peroxide on the wound. I told her to rush him to the hospital,” he disclosed.

According to Biggs, Levy was treated at a private facility in Mandeville, but did not know if a report was made to the police.

Neither the police’s information arm, Constabulary Communication Network, nor the Frankfield Police Station in Clarendon has any record of the shooting.

Levy made a post about the incident on his Instagram page on Tuesday. Several efforts by Splash to speak with him were unsuccessful.

Levy is hailed as one of reggae’s finest vocalists. He emerged on the scene in the late 1970s recording a number of hit songs for producer Henry “Junjo” Lawes. He is known for songs like Black Roses, Work, Vice Versa Love, and Under Mi Sensi.