London, United Kingdom
Hughie was born in Jamaica. His uncle, whom at the time owned a very successful store, adjoining bar and Dancehall, raised him. Hughie, left in the care of his uncle by his mother who had moved to England in search of a better life. He found himself having to grow up very fast, he was a young child literally on his own. Of course he was with his uncle who provided a roof over his head and food on the table but as far as a mothers love and parental guidance it just wasn’t like that. Over the years he came to find that music and art made up for those missing links. Many a night as very young child, who would normally hear the soothing voice of his mother singing a sweet lullaby to send him off to sleep. He instead was rocked to sleep by the shaking of the walls of the Dancehall baseline directly beside his bedroom window.
At 13, as requested by his estranged Mother he was packed off on a plane and to London, he settled in the family home at Arnos Grove. On arriving in London,
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