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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

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Topics: After Learn Needed School Started Tailor Trade Work

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Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

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Topics: Died Father Ill Mary Me Mother Taken Then Took

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Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

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Topics: Better Enough Get Hold Just Long Out Things Will You

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The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

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Topics: Asked Four Lead Lead Singer Like Me Really Sing Singer Them

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Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

~Desmond Dekker

Topics: Hear Kong Other People Records Right Said Say Sometimes Style Things Wanted

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Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

~Desmond Dekker

Topics: Album Anew Another Been Charts Get Hoping Material Millennium New Out Put Recently Record Should Single Song Still Sure Which Will Working

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I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

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Topics: Alpha Andrew Attended Born Boy Raised School Then I Was Born

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I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

~Desmond Dekker

Topics: About Around Everyday Everyday Life Happening Hear Life Like May Me See Someone Songs Take Talking Write I See

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I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

~Desmond Dekker

Topics: About Around Different Different Things Every Every Time Everyday Happening Look Out Put Same Same Thing See Story Take Tell Then Thing Things Time Together Write You

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One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

~Desmond Dekker

Topics: About Buy Dad Day Explained Forgot Get Going Got Happened He Heard Him Home King Like Me Melody One Day Sending Shop Shops Something Song Stardust Thought Trance Understood

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Biography

Nationality: Jamaican

Type: Musician

Born: July 16th, 1941

Died: May 25th, 2006

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