Alton Ellis king of soul
I’ve lost my musical hero and icon, Alton Ellis, but my mourning is mixed with enormous celebration of a professional life well lived. Comparisons are said to be odious, but apart from Bob Marley, Alton Ellis was the single greatest artiste Jamaica has produced and we are a superpower in music.
Well, lets start with the incontrovertible up to the time of his death, Alton had no contemporary from the era of the 1950s or 1960s who elicited more frenzy, excitement and passion than he did among audiences in Jamaica and the world.