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Reggae artist Ruddy Thomas dies

June 20th 2006 09:17
Ruddy Thomas
Yet another reggae artist has died (16/06/06). Ruddy Thomas, whose most famous song was Loving Pauper, died aged 49 while on stage during the Popular Song Contest run by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission in Portland. Although perhaps not the most famous of Jamaican artists Ruddy Thomas performed consistently, released a good deal of material and also played percussion (amongst other instruments) on the recording of many other reggae greats including Barrington Levy and Joe Gibbs. His forte was lovers reggae, though loving pauper was more rocksteady and is a great track. Michael Jackson also adapted a song he’d penned and he had decent success with duets, most notable an album with the very fine Susan Cadogan - He will be sorely missed.


His death comes soon after that of Desmond Dekker who also died on stage, as well as the recent deaths of reggae legends Laurel Aitken, Phyllis Dillon and Coxsone Dodd to name just a few.
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