“It is quite shocking to hear of his passing,” Errol Michael Henry, the artist’s attorney, stated. He was a kind person and the epitome of a gentleman.
He was a legend in his own way and loved his family dearly. You wouldn’t meet a more pleasant person, which adds to the difficulty of the loss.
Born Maxwell Livingston Smith in 1944, Romeo left home at the age of 14 to work on a sugar farm. After winning a local talent competition at the age of 18, he made the decision to pursue music.
In the middle of the 1960s, he started performing in Kingston. He was once a member of the vocal group The Emotions, who at the time had a significant influence on the Jamaican music landscape.
He started using music as a way to vent his political annoyances when he started his solo career. His songs thus became strongly linked to the Jamaican social democratic movement in the 1970s.
