Millie Small is a Jamaican singer-songwriter known for her 1964 cover of The Cadillacs' song "My Boy Lollipop," and popularized the "bluebeat" style.

She and Roy Panton recorded as Roy and Millie when she was a teenager.

Her success with "My Boy Lollipop" was significant in that it was the first major hit for Island Records.

Her father was a sugar plantation overseer.

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