DENNIS BROWN, REGGAE'S `CROWN PRINCE'.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Dennis Brown, a former child star who became known as the Crown Prince of Reggae reggae, Jamaican popular music that developed in the 1960s among Kingston's poor blacks, drawing on American "soul" music and traditional African and Jamaican folk music and ska (a Jamaican and British dance-hall music). , died Thursday at a Kingston hospital Kingston Hospital is an acute NHS hospital in Kingston upon Thames, South West London. It has an Accident & Emergency Unit, a popular midwife-led Maternity unit, and an STD clinic known as the Wolverton Centre. It is operated by Kingston Hospital NHS Trust. . He was 42. Initial reports suggested Brown died of complications caused by respiratory problems, but his cause of death had not yet been confirmed, said Carl Davis Carl Davis CBE (born October 28, 1936, New York City, United States) is an American conductor and composer who has been living in the UK since 1961. He has made England his home and married an English actress, Jean Boht. , chief executive officer at University of the West Indies The university consists of three major campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, and Cave Hill in Barbados, together with a satellite campus in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. Hospital. Brown rose to prominence amid a 1970s wave of reggae singers that included Bob Marley, who introduced reggae music to listeners worldwide. He released a string of hit songs beginning with ``No Man is an Island,'' which he recorded in 1969 at the age of 12. The singer's most fruitful period came later, when he produced hits including ``Westbound Train,'' ``How Could I Leave'' and ``Ghetto Girl,'' a song recently covered by British singer Mick Hucknall of the pop group Simply Red. He earned a Grammy nomination in 1995 for his album ``Light My Fire.'' He is survived by his wife, Yvonne, and 13 children, Radio Jamaica reported. |
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