WASHINGTON -- Jamaican reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker, famed for the genre's first worldwide hit, Israelites, has died of a heart attack at his home in England, the Jamaica Observer reported Friday. He ...

Jamaican reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker, famed for the genre’s first worldwide hit with ”Israelites,” has died of a heart attack at his home in England, the Jamaica Observer reported Friday. He was 64.

Reggae legend Desmond Dekker has died suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Surrey, south-east England, just a week before his next concert, his manager said on Friday. The 64-year-old Jamaican, ...

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Rock historian Ed Ward remembers Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker, who died last week at the age of 64. His 1969 hit "Israelites" was for many Americans the first reggae they'd ever heard.

This is the song that towers over the rest of Dekker’s catalogue, with good reason. For one thing, it was the first reggae song to hit in America, unless you count “My Boy Lollipop,” which you ...

Singer Desmond Dekker, who died aged 63, on May 25 at his home in Thornton Heath, London, predated the great Bob Marley in bringing reggae and ska to a global audience. Born Desmond Adolphus Dacres in ...

The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Its ground-breaking success laid the foundations of the British reggae ...

An archive celebration of great reggae performances filmed in the BBC Studios drawn from programmes such as The Old Grey Whistle Test Top of the Pops and Later with Jools Holland and featuring the ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...