She was such a really sweet person, very funny, great sense of humour. Following the news of her death, Island founder Chris Blackwell said in a statement: “Millie opened the door for Jamaican music to the world. In 2011, decades after her retirement from music, Small was made a Commander in the Order of Distinction in Jamaica, for her role in the country’s music industry. A response to Enoch Powell’s notorious “Rivers of Blood” speech, the track became an anti-racist anthem and spearheaded her 1970 LP Time Will Tell. When vocalist Millie Small recorded her cover of the Barbie Gaye song My Boy Lollipop in 1964, she didnt realize the impact it would have on the music.
She left the label in 1970 and released a cover of Nick Drake’s “Mayfair,” but it was the B-side, “Enoch Power,” that took off. She signed with Island, then a fledgling label specializing in Jamaican music, and released “My Boy Lollipop” to international success in 1964. She was 72, according to a press release from Island Records.īorn in south Jamaica, Small launched her recording career in Kingston before moving to London in 1963.
Millie Small, the Jamaican singer behind ska classic “My Boy Lollipop,” has died after suffering a stroke, the BBC and The Jamaica Observer report.
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