Millie Small

Über Millie Small

Jamaican singer whose 1964 single 'My Boy Lollipop' became the first truly global Jamaican pop hit — reaching No. 2 in both the UK and US charts and selling over seven million copies. At 17 she opened the door for Jamaican music's international crossover long before reggae's rise, and her success laid the commercial groundwork Island Records used to launch Bob Marley a decade later.