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"So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor."

Desmond Dekker, Jamaican Musician

Work, School, Trade

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"So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor."

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"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."

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"I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that."

"Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts."

"Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style."

"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's."

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"So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor."

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