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All feeds News feeds Business feeds Sports feeds Entertainment feeds. Isaacs "kept the tradition of pure singing alive," says Jamaican musicologist Vaughn "Bunny" Goodison. The body of Isaacs, who died of lung cancer in London on Oct.
That's no surprise: Isaacs was a national treasure, a commercially and critically acclaimed reggae artist who recorded albums in his year career. The most famous, Night Nurse , which contained his most popular single of the same name , was fittingly released a year after Marley's death, a sign that Isaacs would keep the genre going. And that is perhaps Isaacs' most valuable legacy.
He preserved authentic reggae over the past three decades, not just its gracefully offbeat sound but its quirkily dignified demeanor, which Isaacs retained whether he was pining for lost love or railing at social injustice. O'Neil Bryant have been internationally criticized although certainly not all dancehall reggae has that reputation. Not that Isaacs, who was raised by a single mother in Kingston's violent Denham Town ghetto, didn't have his own demons.
Night Nurse was a thinly veiled reference to his cocaine addiction, which he never really kicked until his later years, his drug use eventually leading to the loss of some of his teeth.
He was arrested at least twice for cocaine possession and once served a brief prison sentence for illegal gun possession. But his music "was never vulgar," says Goodison, who in the coming weeks will air a tell-all interview he conducted with Isaacs in
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