Winston Blake Plays His Final ‘Merritone’

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Winston Blake Plays His Final ‘Merritone’

February 28, 2016, 06:20 AM

Winston 'Merritone' Blake, OD, who died at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) yesterday morning, is being remembered as an icon of Jamaican popular music. He was 75 years old.

Blake's moniker comes from the sound system founded by his father Val in Springfield, St Thomas, in 1950 and carried on by his sons Winston, Trevor, Tyrone and Monty to become the oldest sound system in the world which continues to operate. Tyrone died in 2012.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/n...inal-merritone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7qlWwGVILw

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