Peetah Morgan Dies: Lead Singer Of Grammy-Winning Reggae Band Morgan Heritage Was 46

Peter Anthony “Peetah” Morgan, lead singer of the Grammy-winning family reggae band Morgan Heritage, died Sunday of undisclosed causes. He was 46.

A cause of death was not disclosed.

His death, which Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness called a “colossal loss” for Jamaica and reggae music, was announced on social media by Morgan’s family members. The group has family roots in Jamaica, Brooklyn and Springfield, Massachusetts.

Peetah Morgan founded the Morgan Heritage band with seven siblings – all children of the Jamaica-born singer Denroy Morgan – in 1994, though the group would eventually become a five-member band. Known for its melding of classic reggae with rock, soul, calypso, funk and other genres, Morgan Heritage became one of the genre’s leading vocal groups.

Morgan Heritage won a Best Reggae Album Grammy in 2016 for its 2015 album Strictly Roots. Avrakedabra, its 2017 album, was Grammy-nominated in 2018.

Complete survivor information was not immediately available, but the family’s social media announcement said Morgan was a “husband, father, son and brother.”