Millicent Dolly May “Millie” Small, CD (born 6 October 1946), is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, best known for her 1964 cover version of “My Boy Lollipop”.
Career
Small was born at Gibralter in Clarendon, Jamaica, the daughter of a sugar plantation overseer. Like many Jamaican singers of the era, her career began by winning the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour talent contest at the age of twelve. Wishing to pursue a career as a singer she moved to live with relatives in Love Lane in Kingston. In her teens, she recorded a duet with Owen Gray (“Sugar Plum”) in 1962 and later recorded with Roy Panton for Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One record label as ‘Roy and Millie’. They had a local hit with “We’ll Meet”.