Brinsley Forde, BBC 6 Music DJ and former frontman of reggae band Aswad, reflects on the enduring influence of the late Desmond Dekker. It is a sad loss. I had met him a few times and had a lot of ...

With the 1969 song Israelites, Desmond Dekker was one of the first Jamaican musician to enjoy a worldwide hit single and the song was the first number one reggae record in the UK. The mixture of ...

THE heartbroken manager of Desmond Dekker last night paid a touching tribute to the reggae legend, who has died from a heart attack aged 64. Delroy Williams said the Jamaican singer, best known ...

Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for reggae, died on Wednesday. He was 64. He died after collapsing from a heart attack in his ...