Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Wife Mireille Perry Says Reggae Legend ‘Was Not Sick’
Mireille Perry, di wife of Reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has absolved di medical staff at di Noel Holmes hospital of any wrongdoing inna di dub pioneer’s death after a cryptic post she made dat had conspiracy theorists salivating on Tuesday.
Perry died on Sunday morning (August 29) at di Western Jamaica hospital at di age of 85, reportedly from an illness.
However, in di Instagram post on Tuesday, Mrs. Perry wrote, “I have no words for what had happen! Nobody was expecting something like that because he was not sick!”
“Lee had so many plans that he was looking forward to. So many different projects, shows, art, designs, Community…. I’m not allowed to give any details for the moment, but I could just say that Lucea hospital didn’t have anything to do with his tragic pasting (sic) away or did something wrong.”
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
One commenter said, “I knew it! Lee was answering text messages up to the day before he passed away what sick person does that? Lee justice will be served if not on earth then in heaven!”
When contacted, Mrs. Perry did tell DancehallMag dat she cud not seh much ’bout Lee’s death. “I’m not allowed to say a word right now but it will be a huge thing, when I am ready to talk, everything will come out…he was looking younger, I made sure he was eating right, I took care of him,” his wife of 30 years said.
She did not reveal di cause of death.
Mireille Perry did address di part of har post weh she vowed: “In the memory and honor of LEE SCRATCH PERRY we’ll build his £$P community in the exact way that he dreamt about. He had a very clear picture how he wanted it to look”.
“We knew that one day we knew we would not be able to travel because the world will be like it is today. He always dream to have land in Hanover, he always say he wanted to build a studio in Hanover, and have a house with art, an area where no one can trouble him and say ‘don’t make so much noise’,” she told DancehallMag.
In December 2020, di Upsetta had announced dat he wud be returning to Jamaica fi, among other tings, establish an off-di-grid community, to enable him fi get away from wat him described as “dis Babylon Madness” in Switzerland, where him live fi several years. Him mek him return to di island inna January 2021, and revealed dat him needed Jamaica’s sunshine, dat Switzerland was now “too cold” and dat di “energy was not right”.
The community will be located in Hanover, she revealed.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
“People will come to him from all over the world, because he would not travel anymore. You know he is addicted to the mike, if you give him mike, you cannot take it away, (laugh), it gonna be hours. He had planned to have a big tour in November, the whole UK, that would be his last tour, cause he did not believe we could travel anymore, he was going to say goodbye to show business,” Mrs. Perry said.
She also revealed plans fi transform di Black Ark studio in Washington Gardens inna one museum.
“The house has been sold and we’re going to rebuild it exactly how it was. You know all his rights were taken away, he don’t have no rights to nothing. The music and touring was his income, we had a plan, he didn’t want to keep the house and we wanted someone to make a museum, people are going to build it exactly how it was,” Mrs. Perry said.
She did not reveal di identity of di developer but said “that person was connected to him from day one”.
“I’m so happy that that will happen, the museum, because he deserved that,” she said.
She revealed dat di man who Keith Richards called di ‘Salvador Dali’ of music had been creating a lot of art pieces in Switzerland over di past few years.
“Everything he did was art,” she said.
Perry is survived by him wife, and two children from his marriage to har.
Di star, who performed and worked alongside fellow Jamaican Bob Marley, also had four children from previous relationships: Cleopatra, Marsha, Omar and Marvin.
Source: dancehallmag.com | Claude Mills
