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Byron Lee is Jamaican Idol

Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 February 1970

RELATIVELY unknown in this country, except to West Indians, Byron Lee is one of Jamaica's biggest attractions. In fact, he is to the Jamaicans what people like Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck are to us — but, of course, in a vastly different field.

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