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An associate of the common initial influx of Jamaican ska performers, Derrick Morgan was one of the genre’s founding fathers, rising alongside pioneers like the Skatalites, Laurel Aitken, Prince Buster, and Desmond Dekker. Blessed in March, 1940, Morgan grew up within the Kingston region, exposed to a number of musical …

Derrick & Patsy were Jamaica’s initial boy-girl vocal duo, and over the early ’60s they lower a blast of strike singles which were equally heavy-hitters among Britain’s Western world Indian community. Derrick Morgan had been a studio room veteran, documenting his first tune — and strike — in 1959, “Fan …