Greetings Mogsters! So sad... We lost him to Cancer this past Friday. He is a foundation Reggae artist and his passing is truly a loss to the world of music. I am going to be starting a weekly Reggae Bashment in San Francisco on Monday and will deffinetly be hailing up the King for all his good works with a set of his classic material. Read about his passing and his works:http://www.cbc.ca/arts...
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From a report by the BBC: Reggae star Alton Ellis, known as "the Godfather of rocksteady", has died at the age of 70. The Jamaican-born singer, who moved to Britain in the 1970s, achieved fame with a number of hits, including "I'm Still in Love" and "I'm Just a Guy." He was a leading pioneer of the more laid-back "rocksteady" sound, which came out of Jamaica in the 1960s. Ellis was still pe...
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Informed by a post on shimmy shimmy, I realized that Jamaican rocksteady legend Alton Ellis has passed away from cancer. Here are a few of his classics that span over 45 years. Tribute on Myspace and idolator Ellis was known as the "Godfather of rocksteady", with his 1967 debut album 'Mr Soul Of Jamaica' regarded as [...]
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