Ska legend Jerome Hines has died. He was 80. The famed Jamaican musician died earlier this month after a short illness. Hines was a guitarist with 60s band Skatalites and was credited with creating the sound of Ska.

Hines was 22-years-old when he first started to learn how to play guitar after borrowing the instrument from his blind father.

In his later years he was a reluctant live performer and refused to travel outside Jamaica.

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