Minister Marion Hall Says She Lost Grammy Plaque For ‘Underneath It All’

Minister Marion Hall has listed her Grammy-winning, gold-selling hit Underneath It All, a collab with No Doubt, as her greatest accomplishment during her days in secular Dancehall as Lady Saw.

However, she has also pointed out that the song’s Grammy plaque which she received from the Recording Academy in 2004 for Best Pop Performance by A Duo or Group with Vocal, cannot be found as it was siphoned off by a rogue former acquaintance of hers.

She made the revelation after she was asked by Tamara McKayle during a recent interview on The Trailblazers Show, about her greatest feat in Dancehall, prior to getting baptized in 2015.

“My greatest accomplishment was getting a Grammy with No Doubt and selling platinum,” she recounted.  “That Grammy. I left it somewhere. Remember when I went to the Grammy awards…remember we had an issue in getting an actual Grammy in hand?”

“But I left it somewhere. I had it at someone’s house and left and didn’t remember it.  When I called and told them that I have something there can I come pick it up?  Where it is, it nobody would know cause nobody go up there – and the person tell a friend to tell me it’s not there,” she explained.

She continued: “I said ‘OK. Keep it’.  If I was Lady Saw I would be at war with them. But I’m like OKok, keep it. Cause one day I know it’s gonna turn up, maybe when I pass but, I left it where I left it and no devil in hell can tell me it’s not where it was. Nobody knew where it was until I said it’s there.”

Produced by riddim twins Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Underneath It All, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, hit No. 2 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40, and also topped Billboard’s US Mainstream Top 40 chart.

In a 2010 interview, Hall told Believer Magazine that Sly and Robbie had called her and informed her that No Doubt was in Jamaica and wanted to do a collab.

“And I said, ‘OK, on my way’.  So I went to the studio, and they played me the song, and showed me where my spot was. And I started writing, and I was done in a minute. And Gwen [Stefani] and the whole group, they were all like, “Bravo! You’re so good. You’re so quick,” she had said in pointing out how swiftly she got the job done.

During the interview, Hall had also been asked about the fact that when she won the Grammy for the No Doubt collaboration, many people in Jamaica were upset that she did not get the opportunity to go on stage to accept it.

“My people called the Grammy people, and the Grammy people said they got the information from No Doubt’s people, and No Doubt’s people said they put my name there—it was a whole runaround. So when they announced we won, I was getting up to go up there on stage with my manager at the time, but the damn security guy in the aisle was like, ‘Where you all going?’ And we were like, ‘We just won, and we’re going to go up there.’

She explained, however, that she carried no hard feelings as Gwen Stefani had ‘bigged’ her up at the beginning of her acceptance speech, and she saw that as a mark of respect.

“But I remember when Gwen did get up there, the first thing she said was, ‘Thanks to Lady Saw, and Sly and Robbie.’ We’re cool—we been cool. I like her personally. She’s just a cool person,” Hall had explained.