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| More accolades for Byron Lee |
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| Friday, 07 November 2008 | |
 As Jamaica
continues to mourn the passing of musical icon Byron Lee, Jamaicans, former
colleagues and other influential figures in Britain have acknowledged him as
one among the best.Jamaica's High Commissioner to London Burchell Whiteman told RJR News, Mr. Lee was an exceptionally talented musician and his passing is a great. The High Commissioner said Byron Lee not only helped to develop music in Jamaica but extended the music to other Jamaican performers, to the region and the rest of the world. Meanwhile musician and actor, Count Prince Miller, who has worked with Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, described him as a gentleman even as he sought to entertain and bring communities together. And Trinidadian Lewis Benn, a director of the Notting Hill Carnival, said Byron Lee was an entraordianary performer who was always a part of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival each year and would be sadly missed. Byron Lee died on Tuesday in the University Hospital of the West Indies after battling cancer since 2006. |