Laurel Aitken died 17th. July 2005, just a few days before sending this album to the factory, this one is the last project he was involved in before his death, a posthumous album, unfortunately.

Laurel Aitken (1925 - 2005) was borned in Cuba and moved with his family to Jamaica when he was 8 years old. At 12 he was singing Calypso and playing guitar for the tourists for tips. Being a teenager he won several local contests and later came his very first recordings, it was the Jazz, Boogie, R&B and Calypso era. Laurel was the protagonist of the born of Ska music, that jamaican flavoured Rhythm & Blues, of wich was later acclaimed as pioneer. The first hits and number ones started to grow for himslf in the island. Jamaican music was changing in the 60’s and the rhythm of Ska was becoming Rocksteady. Young followers and talents, like Bob Marley, were into his fans who waited after his shows for autographs. Laurel was always ruling and when he moved to London Reggae music was borned, it was 1969. The rest of Laurel’s life took part in the UK earning more hits and being one of the jamaican artists who played live more oftenly all around the world.

Since Laurel Aitken suffered a heart attack on December 2003 it was started a benefit campaign for collecting funds for helping him to survive, it has been celebrated benefit events in Japan, Italy, France, Brasil, Mexico, Argentina and England and there are more events scheduled for 2005-2006 (you can learn more here) for helping his widow Sandra.