The first line of his bio states: “Glenroy Anthony Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica on May 1, 1945, and raised in St Ann”, and it goes on to give an interesting and detailed history of the singer who thousands have come to know and love as Ernie.
Singer Pluto Shervington, whose 1976 hit song ‘I Man Born Ya’, summed-up Jamaica’s tense political climate, died in Miami, Florida on Friday at age 73. Fellow singer Ernie Smith, who knew Shervington for more than 50 years, confirmed his death in an interview with Observer Online. Shervington migrated to South Florida one year after ‘I Man Born Ya’ topped charts in Jamaica. The single referenced socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley's.
Next Saturday, when the music begins to strum at Plantation Cove in Priory, St Ann, there will be a vintage feel to Merritone On The Beach, the second show in the opening season of Coveside Concer.