King Joe Higgs There is a reward for me
Jamaican singer Joe Higgs, known as "The Father of Reggae Music," passed away Saturday, December 18, 1999, at the age of 59 in a hospital in Los Angeles following several months of treatment for cancer. Joe Higgs was born on June 3, 1940 in Jamaica.
Higgs was hugely influential in the birth of the ska, rock steady and reggae forms of Jamaican music, and was widely respected as a composer, arranger and performer, but perhaps most of all as a teacher. Among those he trained were Bob Marley, Derrick Harriott, Peter Tosh, Bob Andy, the Wailing Souls and Bunny Wailer.
Higgs was hugely influential in the birth of the ska, rock steady and reggae forms of Jamaican music, and was widely respected as a composer, arranger and performer, but perhaps most of all as a teacher. Among those he trained were Bob Marley, Derrick Harriott, Peter Tosh, Bob Andy, the Wailing Souls and Bunny Wailer.
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