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Growing up in Compton in the 1960s, Deborah Swan always looked forward to visits from her grandfather, Leon Hefflin Sr. A handsome, dapper man who wore a suit and a hat, Hefflin was a perpetual tinkerer. He had built her brother s bunk bed and created an aromatic tincture, Leon s Foot Ointment. He smoked a pipe and was very quiet. He never bragged about himself, Swan recalls. If he had been inclined to do so, he would ve had plenty to say.
Hefflin was a dreamer, a serial entrepreneur, a breaker of color barriers and the producer of the Cavalcade of Jazz, a trailblazing annual music festival that
Today in Music History - Feb. 6
The Canadian Press 2021-02-06
Today in Music History for Feb. 6:
In 1945, Bob Marley, the first superstar of reggae music, was born in Rhoden Hall, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley formed a vocal quintet, The Wailers, who achieved some success, but little financial reward, in their native country, before disbanding in 1966. The Wailers reunited in 1968, but for several years seemed no closer than before to establishing steady careers. Then, in 1972, Chris Blackwell signed them to Island Records and advanced them the money to record an album in Jamaica. The result was Catch a Fire, the first album by Bob Marley and the Wailers ” to be marketed outside Jamaica. It was the start of their climb to international fame, aided by Eric Clapton s hit single of Marley s I Shot the Sheriff. Over the next several years, Marley and the Wailers were largely responsible for the worldwide popularity of reggae music. Marley became a superstar in Jamaica, w