Phyllis Dillon is dead
published: Saturday | April 17, 2004
DILLONPHYLLIS DILLON, the 60-year-old songbird known for such seminal hits as Perfidia, The Love Woman Give to Man, and I Have One Life to Live, died earlier this week of cancer in New York after a one-month illness.
"She took ill in February, she should have been touring Japan, Canada, England, but had to cancel the tour. She had been hospitalised for one month but had cancer in the brain, breast, all over. Event-ually, the doctors released her and she went home for one week and died at home," Michael Barnett, head of MKB Productions, which produces the popular Heineken Startime series of concerts, said.
Phyllis Dillon emigrated to the United States in 1968, and had stopped singing. However, she resurrected her career in 1991, and had even returned to live in Jamaica before the cancer began to take a toll on her body.
