Singer Jahn’ll stays close to home on Why Yuh Do It, which pays tribute to her grandfather Clancy Eccles. It samples his 1971 hit single, Sweet Jamaica.

Jahn’ll spoke about the honour of saluting the charismatic Eccles, an artiste, producer, and show promoter whose career started during the early 1960s ska era.

He died in 2005 at age 64.

“When I was a little girl I saw my grandfather working with a lot of other artistes in his recording and rehearsal studios. However, I didn’t even know about most of his achievements and the work that he did as a pioneering ska, rocksteady, reggae artiste, and producer until I began my own singing career,” she said.

“As I got more involved in the music business and people found out that Clancy Eccles is my grandfather they would tell me about all the wonderful things he did during the early era of Jamaican music. I’m very proud to know that he helped to lay the foundation for the development of our music. So I decided to pay homage to him by sampling a part of Sweet Jamaica into my new single,” she continued.

Produced by Eccles for his Clan Disc label, Sweet Jamaica was released by British company Trojan Records in 1971.

Why Yuh Do It is produced by Ralston Barrett for Symphony B Records and distributed by VPAL Records. It is inspired by worrisome trends in Jamaica.

“When I look at what is going on with all this crime and violence in our society it’s heartbreaking. Every time I listen to the news I hear about children and women being abducted and killed. As a woman and a mother, I had to record this song and I hope its message will help to make a change,” said Jahn’ll, who is also promoting Falling, produced by Pandemic Records.