Minor correction to the obit: the World’s Fair in New York was in 1964 (not 1963). That's when Jamaica sent a delegation with the band Byron Lee and the Dragonaires and singers Jimmy Cliff and Prince Buster to promote ska as the representative Jamaican genre and try to get a craze started in the US. (It didn't quite go as it might have, because Bryron Lee's group, although consummate professionals, didn't really have the feel for ska. Reportedly, the musicians that did, associated with the Skatalites, were considered too much of a liability to send abroad.)