Prince Buster, Grandfather of Ska Music, Dies at 78 — TIME

Prince Buster, the Jamaican musician widely celebrated as a grandfather of ska music, died in Miami on Thursday at the age of 78, the BBC and other outlets reported. Buster was born Cecil Bustamente Campbell in Kingston in 1938 and came to prominence there in the 1960s, pioneering the sound that would come to be…

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