Posted September 17, 201410 yr heres a link I saw on facebook for a petition to get the JA government etc to do more for the founder reggae stars who are on hard times..shocking pic of Jackie barnard from the kingstonions before he recently passed away SIGN! https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/aid-to-support-foundation-artists-in-reggae-asfar Edited September 17, 201410 yr by spacehopper
September 17, 201410 yr Don't know what happened to jackie Bernard, 2 years ago there was great footage of him playing at Reggae events in Mexico, interviews, the lot - did he die of cancer?
September 18, 201410 yr Pete Check this article from the Gleaner last year https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140202/ent/ent1.html#.Uu58U4SA4ak.facebook I sent some funds at the time, which I believe helped pay for someone to come over to his one room home and keep it clean Sad to hear his passing...suffer no longer Jackie
September 18, 201410 yr So diabetes then. It was Brazil, not Mexico that I saw the footage of him. Apparently thats when they realised something wasn't quite right. The ludicrous thing though, while he rotted away in a partly built house in poverty in Jamaica, his records from 1968 to 1970 often sell for over £100 a time...Kingstonians sales on Ebay for just one year must be over £5000
September 18, 201410 yr True Pete I am as guilty of spunking money on vinyl recorded by artists that live or have died in extreme poverty...it is a sad world we live in I had seen some pictures of Jackie living in what can only be described as squalor, with incontinence problems, and his dentures had been stolen in a recent hospital visit..it was enough to make me do something (which wasn't much to be honest) if only to make me feel less guilty
October 10, 201410 yr heres a link I saw on facebook for a petition to get the JA government etc to do more for the founder reggae stars who are on hard times..shocking pic of Jackie barnard from the kingstonions before he recently passed away SIGN! https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/aid-to-support-foundation-artists-in-reggae-asfar Done, how is Pat Kelly doing ? Anybody know ?
heres a link I saw on facebook for a petition to get the JA government etc to do more for the founder reggae stars who are on hard times..shocking pic of Jackie barnard from the kingstonions before he recently passed away
SIGN!
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/aid-to-support-foundation-artists-in-reggae-asfar
Edited by spacehopper