Tributes after My Boy Lollipop singer Millie Small dies aged 72
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breakingnews.ieTributes have been paid to Jamaican singer Millie Small, best known for her 1960s hit My Boy Lollipop, after her death at the age of 72.
A representative of her label, Island Records, said she died in London on Tuesday after falling ill at the weekend. Label founder Chris Blackwell said Small had “opened the door for Jamaican music to the world”.
He added: “It became a hit pretty much everywhere in the world. I went with her around the world because each of the territories wanted her to turn up and do TV shows and such, and it was just incredible how she handled it. “She was such a really sweet person, very funny, great sense of humour.
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