The singer/composer Lord Flea, whose performance was the highlight of the 1957 film "Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)_, was the leading proponent of the Jamaican music genre "mento", which is a precursor of reggae and ska. Sadly, he died in 1959 at the peak of his popularity, having made mento a cross-over genre globally. Although mento was marketed as...
The Caribbean musician Reuben McCoy, who played rhythm guitar with the Bimshire Boys on the LP "Bermuda Calling" (circa 1970), billed himself as "Lord Flea" in homage to the great original.
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