Cornel Campbell’s sweet quaver of a voice was first noticed in the church choir when he was a young boy, and as one of the finest falsettos in reggae, it never really changed.

He recalled later that stunned parishioners said the child had “the voice of an angel” – and he made his first recording, My Treasure, when he was only 11 at Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One.

That came after a meeting with the wonderful trombonist Rico Rodriguez – later to move to the UK and play with The Members (Offshore Banking Business) and The Specials (A Message To You, Rudy).

After finishing school, Campbell returned there in his teens to cut a series of ska sides in the 1960s, such as Turn Down Date, backed by The Skatalites, both as a solo artist and as part of a duo with Alan Martin.

He then became a member of The Uniques and by 1969 Cornel Campbell led his own group, The Eternals, with whom he recorded hits like Queen of the Minstrels and Stars for Studio One, before going solo in 1971 and teaming up with producer Bunny Lee.

As a solo artist with Trojan, Campbell started out singing lovers rock before switching to roots reggae in the mid-1970s in line with his Rastafarian beliefs.

Big reggae hits included Natty Dread in a Greenwich Farm, Natural Facts and this one – The Gorgon – which would become his signature song, earning him the nickname Don Gorgon and spawning a series of sequels.

In the early 1980s he transitioned into dancehall, enjoying another big hit – Boxing Around – with Joe Gibbs, and has continued to move with the times, working with a German techno-dub team called Rhythm & Sound on their single King In My Empire, and making an album with the London-based dub band Soothsayers.