Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD was a Jamaican reggae artist who was born on February 1, 1957. He published more than 75 albums during his prodigious career, which began in the late 1960s when he was eleven years old and was a huge star of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley dubbed Brown “The Crown Prince of Reggae,” and he would have a lasting influence on future generations of reggae artists.
Arthur, his father, was a writer, actor, and journalist, and he grew up in Kingston with his parents, three older brothers, and a sister, albeit his mother died in the 1960s.
Where was Dennis Brown buried?
Brown’s health began to decline in the late 1990s. He had developed respiratory troubles, which were likely exacerbated by persistent problems with drug addiction, primarily cocaine, and he became unwell in May 1999 while touring in Brazil with other reggae musicians, when he was diagnosed with pneumonia.
On the evening of June 30, 1999, after returning to Kingston, Jamaica, he was transported to Kingston’s University Hospital, suffering from cardiac arrest. Brown died the following day, the official cause of death being a ruptured lung.
P. J. Patterson, the sitting Jamaican Prime Minister, and Edward Seaga, the opposition leader at the time, of the Jamaica Labour Party, both spoke during Brown’s funeral on July 17, 1999, in Kingston.
The three-hour funeral also included live performances by Maxi Priest, Shaggy, and three of Brown’s sons. Brown was then laid to rest in Kingston’s National Heroes Park.
