U-Roy at Open East Festival in 2013 (Photo by Véronique Skelsey)
Late veteran toaster Ewart ‘U-Roy’ Beckford will be buried at Dovecot Memorial on Wednesday, May 19. There will also be a viewing at Perry’s Funeral Home for the
Wear You to the Ball singer beginning Monday, May 17 so that the public can say their final farewells to the beloved singer.
The burial will be at 1 pm on Wednesday.
“I want to thank Minister Olivia Grange for her help in organising the viewing and the arrangements. We understand that the COVID-19 restrictions caused this long delay and at this moment, we are just grateful that we can send him off in dignified manner befitting his status in Jamaican music,” Daddy U-Roy’s partner of forty-plus years, Marcia Smikle, told