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PRODUCER ROY SWEETLAND RELEASED ALBUM FEATURING THE LATE VETERAN SINGER, LLOYD ROBINSON!

 Singer Lloyd Robinson (right) and music producer Roy Sweetland.— Since the mid-1970’s, Roy Sweetland has covered the reggae scene as a photographer, but unknown to many, he tried his hand at music production over 30 years ago. Sweetland directed singer Lloyd Robinson on a series of recording sessions at Channel One studio in 1982 with The Revolutionaries band. The songs are compiled for an album titled Candy Girl which was finally released digitally in January by Zojak World Wide. This month, VP Records will release a vinyl cut of Cuss Cuss, one of the songs from the set.  Cuss Cuss was Robinson’s signature song. He first recorded it at Studio One during the late 1960s. Sweetland knew Robinson — who died in November 2013 at age 68 — as a boy in their community of Olympic … Read entire article »

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“NO MORE CUSS CUSS” SAYS THE LATE LLOYD ROBINSON’S SON WAYNE!

“NO MORE CUSS CUSS” SAYS THE LATE LLOYD ROBINSON’S SON WAYNE!

By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston—- Wayne Robinson, son of the late singer Lloyd Robinson. (then) Lloyd Robinson—-LAST November, singer Lloyd Robinson, best known for the dancehall classic Cuss Cuss, died at the Kingston Public Hospital. Five months later, his son Wayne regrets not having spent more time with him. “He accomplished a lot musically, but as a father he came up short. I never really knew the man,” Wayne Robinson told the Sunday Observer from his home in Florida. The 47-year-old … Read entire article »

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