Hopeton Lewis

Hopeton Lewis (30 October 1947 – 4 September 2014)Campbell, Howard (2014) "Singer Hopeton Lewis is dead ", Jamaica Observer, 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014 was a Jamaican singer. Lewis started performing at a young age. He formed a singing group called, "The Regals".

By the mid-1960s, he began recording and had one of the earliest hits with "Take It Easy" in late 1966.Larkin, Colin (1998) "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", Virgin Books, Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) "The Rough Guide To Reggae", Rough Guides,  He had several more Jamaican hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the first 'herb' song ever recorded in Jamaica, "Cool Collie". He worked for Duke Reid as an arranger and backing vocalist, and won the Festival Song Contest in 1970 with "Boom Shaka Lacka".

Lewis died on 4 September 2014 at his home in Brooklyn, New York from kidney failure, aged 66.

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Category:Deaths from renal failure
Category:Jamaican singers
Category:Musicians from Kingston, Jamaica