Piece Of My Heart

Hortense Ellis was born in 1941 in Trenchtown Jamaica. At 18 she won a singing talent contest and by 23 was voted Jamaica's best female artist. She repeated this 5 years late. She often sang with her older brother Alton and the two toured Canada in 1970. After marrying and having 5 children in quick succession, she became very popular on the British scene ( Lover's Rock) as well as in Jamaica still. She also lived in New York and Miami during the 80s but returned to her belov… See more