Released in February 1964, it made her an international star, and helped popularise ska music around the world. Small was enrolled at the Italia Conti Stage School for speech training and dancing lessons and she toured the UK before cutting My Boy Lollipop with a group of London session musicians (Small claimed Rod Stewart played the harmonica solo, but he has denied being present at the recording). There, she teamed up with reggae singer Roy Panton, and they became one of the island’s most prolific duos, scoring a major hit with We’ll Meet.īlackwell took an interest in the singer after releasing some of those records in the UK on his fledgling record label, Island, and brought her to London in 1963. She was really special,” said Blackwell.īorn Millicent Small in Clarendon, south Jamaica, she was one of seven brothers and five sisters, raised on the sugar plantation where her father was an overseer.Īt the age of 12, she won a talent contest at the Palladium Theatre in Montego Bay and by her teens, she was recording for Sir Coxone Dodd’s Studio One label in Kingston. “She was such a sweet person, really a sweet person.
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I went with her around the world because each of the territories wanted her to turn up and do TV shows and such, and it was just incredible how she handled it. “It became a hit pretty much everywhere in the world. “I would say she’s the person who took ska international because it was her first hit record,” he told the Jamaica Observer. It was Blackwell who brought Small to London in 1963 and produced her version of My Boy Lollipop, showcasing her childlike, high-pitched vocals. Island Records founder Chris Blackwell announced her death and remembered her as “a sweet person… really special”. It remains one of the biggest-selling ska songs of all time, with more than seven million sales. The star was most famous for her hit single My Boy Lollipop, which reached number two in both the US and the UK in 1964.
Jamaican singer Millie Small has died at the age of 72 after suffering a stroke.
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