Reggae icon Bob Andy has died

Reggae icon Bob Andy, one in all Jamaica's most celebrated songwriters, has died. He passed away Friday morning at about 8 am.

"Jamaica's greatest songwriter is not with us," promoter Michael Barnett, conceptualise of the famous Heineken Startime series, confirmed.

Keith "Bob Andy" Anderson had reportedly been ill for a while before he sooner or later passed away.

Bob Andy had his first solo hit report in 1967, "I've Got to Go Back Home", which was accompanied by using "Desperate Lover", "Feeling Soul", "Unchained", and "Too Experienced". He also composed songs for other reggae artists, including "I Don't Want to See You Cry" for Ken Boothe, and "Feel Like Jumping", "Truly", and "Melody Life" for Marcia Griffiths.

He had numerous hits in the past due 1960s, including "Going Home", "Unchained", "Feeling Soul", "My Time", "The Ghetto Stays inside the Mind", and "Feel the Feeling". Some of these, and his 1992 hit, "Fire Burning", have grown to seem as reggae standards and several have been covered several instances using different artistes.

In the early 1970s, he recorded with Griffiths as Bob and Marcia, initially for Studio One, but later below producer "Harry J" Johnson's tutelage. They had the chief UK hit with "Young, Gifted and Black", and he recorded "Pied Piper", another pinnacle 20 UK hit, with Griffiths before they toured again.

Disillusioned with the industry, in 1978 Andy put his tune profession on keep and, after taking up creative dancing with the National Dance Theatre Company, focused on his profession as an actor, starring in the films Children of Babylon in 1980, and The Mighty Quinn (1989).

He relocated to London, where he worked as a producer and recorded with Mad Professor, and later to Miami. The Jamaican authorities conferred the Order of Distinction within the rank of Commander (CD) on the singer in October 2006 for his contributions to the development of Jamaican track.