My Boy Lollipop singer Millie Small has died this week, aged 73. She had suffered a stroke, according to her friend Chris Blackwell.
The Jamaican singer was most famous for her hit single My Boy Lollipop, which was country's first million-selling single. Chris, who co-produced the record, said of Millie: "I would say she's the person who took ska international because it was her first hit record. "It became a hit pretty much everywhere in the world.
I went with her around the world because each of the territories wanted her to turn up and do TV shows and such, and it was just incredible how she handled it. "She was such a sweet person, really a sweet person.
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