On This Day: Hugh Beresford Hammond “King of Lovers Rock” is Born in Annotto Bay, St. Mary

On August 28, 1955, reggae singer and songwriter Hugh Beresford Hammond, OJ, a.k.a. Beres Hammond, was born in Annotto Bay, St. Mary, the ninth of ten children. Beres grew up listening to American soul and jazz recordings collected by his father, including Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, and was also influenced by ska and rocksteady, […]