By Roy Black— Derrick Harriott— Three distinct phases to his career – two with the Jiving Juniors and one as a solo artist; two different voices that created hits for nearly three decades. These are credentials that belong to only one man in Jamaica’s popular music history: the legendary Derrick Harriott. Harriott had hits using both his tenor and falsetto voices for nearly three decades. Like many of Jamaica’s successful singers in early popular music, Harriott began with a group before making the transition to solo artist. However, he took a different route from his contemporaries in making that transition as he performed with the group, The Jiving Juniors, in two different phases of their existence – one phase in Jamaica and the other in New York. Although using two different line-ups (Harriott sang with both … Read entire article »