She was one of the very few female early ska era singers who originated from Clarendon. She was the daughter of an overseer on a sugar plantation and the youngest of a family of 12. The National Library of Jamaica biography of Millie Small, whose given name was Millicent Dolly May Small, states that she was born in Vere, Clarendon, on October 6, 1946. The information he had about her passing, he said, was that she suffered a stroke.
He said the last time he saw Small was about 12 years ago. She was such a sweet person, really a sweet person. I went with her around the world because each of the territories wanted her to turn up and do TV shows and such, and it was just incredible how she handled it. “It became a hit pretty much everywhere in the world. He recalled that Ranglin played guitar and did the arrangement on My Boy Lollipop, which became the first Jamaican song to make it on to the British and American music charts, reaching number one in Britain and number two in the United States in 1964. “I would say she's the person who took ska international because it was her first hit record,” Blackwell told the Jamaica Observer from New York. Last night, legendary producer and founder of Island Records Chris Blackwell, who along with Ernie Ranglin produced the song - Jamaica's first million-selling single - described Small as a sweet and special person. Millie Small, the Jamaican singer who introduced the world to ska with her hit My Boy Lollipop in the 1960s, died yesterday in England.
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