He’s survived by his spouse, Evandey Henry; his daughters, Samantha Shaw, Josheina Shaw, Ishika Shaw, Dominique Martin, Naomi Campbell and Sapphire Campbell; his sons, Javion Shaw, JahMarley Shaw and Brad Campbell; and 5 grandchildren.
Fitzroy Ogilvie Matthews Simpson was born on Might 10, 1951, in Kingston. His father, Burnett Simpson, moved to England when Fitzroy was younger. His mom, Monica Matthews, owned a store.
His spouse, Sylvia Simpson, died in 2017. He’s survived by his sister, Lorna Howell; his brother, Lloyd Howell; his daughters, Ronece Simpson and Rosemarie Simpson; his sons, Allan Simpson and Omar Simpson; and 6 grandchildren.
Though the members of the Mighty Diamonds all knew each other at school, it was solely later, as younger males working in Kingston, that they got here collectively as a bunch. They initially known as themselves Limelight, however they modified the title, and adopted their stage names, after Tabby’s mom began calling them the Diamonds.
“Bunny, he lived by my home,” Tabby Diamond mentioned within the 2008 interview. “And we thought possibly we will do one thing collectively, so we beginning singing collectively. Then, one evening we had been passing and Bunny was singing and Decide heard him and mentioned, ‘I need to play the guitar to that.’ So we performed a couple of songs collectively one evening and we mentioned, ‘Sure, issues can work, issues can work out.’”
After 40 years of recording and touring, the Mighty Diamonds slowed down within the early 2010s, however they continued to report. They obtained the Order of Distinction from the Jamaican authorities, one of many nation’s highest civilian honors, in 2021.
