Desmond Dekker Quotes

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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

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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.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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Birth:	16th July, 1941
Death:	25th May, 2006
Nationality:	Jamaican
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Desmond Dekker was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces, he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007", "It Mek and "You Can Get It If You Really Want". He collaborated with The Specials on the 1993 album, King of Kings, which was released under Desmond Dekker and The Specials.

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