NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Hopeton Lewis was just hoping for a break when he stepped into the recording booth at Federal Records in late 1966 and cut a song called Take it Easy. It became his first hit and ...

JAMAICAN singer Hopeton Lewis, reputed to have recorded the first rocksteady song, died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday evening. He was 66 years old. Lewis is best known for the 1966 ...