Reggae music pioneer Alton Ellis, who enjoyed a career revival in recent years after a string of hits in the 1960s, died Friday in London. He was 70. By The Associated Press Reggae music pioneer Alton ...

Alton Ellis, the Jamaican singer known as "The Godfather of Rocksteady", passed away Friday, October 10 at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He was 70 years old. According to an AP report citing ...

Rocksteady pioneer Alton Ellis is to be inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame (IRAWMA) this year. Ellis grew up in Trenchtown, one of the poorest areas of Kingston ...

Alton Ellis, 70, a reggae music pioneer who popularized the laid-back rocksteady sound that came out of Jamaica in the 1960s, died Friday of cancer in a London hospital. Ellis was set to record “Get ...

LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Jamaican-born reggae singer Alton Ellis, known for his unique "rocksteady" sound," has died in London at the age of 70, his agent says. Agent Trish De Rosa remembered the ...

More info: Artists in the showcase include Cham, Christopher Ellis, Jo Mersa Marley, Wayne Marshall, and Black Am I. The first time Christopher Ellis performed on stage, he was 11 years old, joining ...

Alton Ellis, 70, the smooth-voiced Jamaican singer credited with helping launch the island's popular rock steady genre, a slow and hypnotically appealing style that borrowed from elements of American ...

If that doesn’t seem like a logical pairing to you, you’re hardly to be blamed, but since the mid-1960s musicians from Jamaica and other West Indian nations carved out a scene for themselves in ...

FOR his honeymoon last July, Jesse Wagner made what he thought was a healthy compromise. The reggae-loving singer was dying to visit exotic Jamaica, home to the sounds he’d been obsessed with since ...

Jamaican reggae legend Alton Ellis has passed away, aged 70. Ellis, who was nicknamed "The Godfather of Rocksteady", died at Hammersmith Hospital, London at the weekend. He is survived by his wife and ...