Millie Small

Millie Small was a Jamaican singer best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop," a bluebeat-flavoured single that became one of the first ska records to reach a mass audience abroad. By common account Island Records founder Chris Blackwell brought her to Britain, where she briefly made the island's new sound an international pop phenomenon. The cited sources record her life dates and her place as a Jamaican artist defined by that breakthrough.