Reggae singer Roy Shirley, 63
Posted: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 11:41 pmJuly 18, 1944 - July 17, 2008
Roy Shirley was one of the mainstays of Jamaican music in the 1960s, enjoying a string of hits sung in a highly-mannered, soul-influenced vibrato voice that helped to establish the sound known as rock steady. He moved to Britain in 1973 and continued to record but branched out to open a record shop and to found the British Universal Talent Development Association to help foster promising but under-privileged young musicians. …
