Hooray for Tinga! jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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
U Roy (Photo: U Roy Instagram)
Late veteran toaster Ewart U Roy Beckford will be buried on March 28 and his body will lie in state at the National Arena on March 25 so that the public can say their final farewells to the beloved singer. Minister Olivia Grange is organising the viewing which will take place on March 25th at the National Arena. He will have to go to Dovecot as they are not burying anyone else in National Heroes Park, U Roy s partner of 40-plus years, Marcia Smikle, told
Loop News. I am trying to get a big church so that social distancing can be observed because I am not sure that the 10 people stipulation because of COVID can work with a popular public figure like U Roy, a lot of people want to be there, she said.