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Legendary reggae producer Bunny Lee has died at the age of 79, it has been confirmed.
The producer, whose real name was Edward O’Sullivan Lee, played an integral role in the introduction of the genre to the UK in the 1970s after securing a licensing deal with Trojan Records.
Announcing Lee’s passing, Jamaican broadcaster Clinton Lindsay said that the producer had been “battling kidney problems” for several months. His exact cause of death has yet to be confirmed.
Lee, who grew up in the Jamaican capital Kingston, began his career as a record plugger for Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle label in 1962.
He subsequently moved into producing records himself, scoring his first hit with Roy Shirley’s ‘Music Field’ in 1962.
After establishing his place in the country’s musical landscape, Lee went on to produce classic hits such as Eric Donaldson’s ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, Delroy Wilson’s ‘Better Must Come’ and John Holt’s ‘Stick By Me’.
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