According to AMG, there's a slew of comps.
― pheNAM (pheNAM), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)
from an e-mail I received:
On November 4, 2008, we lost 73 year old Jamaican Soca/ Calypso Legend Byron Lee, who was the leader of his world-famous band "Byron Lee and the Dragonnaires". Mr. Lee passed on after a two-year battle with cancer.
RIP
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 November 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)
The organizers of the seventh annual Jamaican Jerk Festival, presented by Air Jamaica and Publix, scheduled for this Sunday, November 9th, in Markham Park, Sunrise, Florida, have planned a special tribute to the legendary band leader Byron Lee, who passed away on Tuesday, November 4, in Jamaica. Lee's band, the Dragonaires, will make their first appearance since his passing, at the festival on Sunday. Julianne Lee, daughter of the famed bandleader, assured listeners on WAVS radio on Thursday that the band will be appearing at the festival on Sunday. "The Jamaican Jerk Festival was very special for my dad and he asked that the show go on, as he had a close relationship with the organizers. This is going to be our first appearance without him and we are planning to celebrate his life in a special way at the Jerk Festival.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 November 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/147206-rip-jamaican-music-legend-byron-lee
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 November 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)
Pitchfork does not have a new reggae or carribean column since Stelfox left but at least they did this...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 November 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)
But alas soca and Byron Lee are not big ILX faves. Not sure whether a separate RIP thread would have gotten some responses--maybe.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 9 November 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)