Intro from KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel: Gregory Isaacs was one of reggae’s great love rockers. His song “Night Nurse” was a worldwide hit. When I was music director, KCRW had a weekly 4-hour reggae show that ...
Officials have confirmed that Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs has died of cancer. The Jamaican born vocalist lost his battle with lung cancer early Monday surrounded by family at his London home. Known ...
Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican singer who pioneered the style of reggae music known as lovers rock and became one of the genre’s major stars in the 1970s, has died. He was 59. Isaacs died Monday at his ...
Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican reggae star known as “the Cool Ruler” for his laid-back, seductive vocal style, died Oct. 25 in London of lung cancer. He was 59. The Kingston-born singer was one of the ...
LONDON (AP) — Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican reggae singer whose smooth style earned him the nickname "Cool Ruler," has died. He was 59. Isaacs' manager, Copeland Forbes, said the singer died Monday at ...
The Cool Ruler has died. Gregory Isaacs, the popular 1970s reggae star nick-named for his silky smooth singing voice, died on Monday at the age of 59, BBC.co.uk reports. He passed away at his London ...
Gregory Isaacs, the reggae star whose smooth voice made him a fixture on the charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, died of lung cancer. Isaacs peaked with the landmark 1982 "Night Nurse" album, ...
Jamaican musicians was known as the 'Cool Ruler' By Richard Smirke, Billboard LONDON — Gregory Isaacs, one of the leading live reggae acts internationally in the wake of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ ...
Reggae star Gregory Isaacs has died at the age of 59 following a long illness, his manager confirmed today. The Jamaican singer, who was best known in the UK for his 1982 album Night Nurse, passed ...
Isaacs released more than 500 albums over his career, starting in 1975. He worked with renowned reggae producers Lee “Scratch” Perry and the recently deceased Sugar Minott throughout the 1970s, ...