More Donations Needed To Reach Tiger’s Medical Bill Target

Reggae singer Anthony Malvo, who is also a close friend of ailing dancehall deejay Tiger, says there’s still a way to go to reach the $US8,000 target to cover his medical bills.

On Sunday, Malvo led a benefit concert in Atlanta, Georgia to help onset the costs.

“We made some money, but a never whole heap a money. When you tell people that you made money, dem automatically think it’s a lot, and yuh rich, but yuh nuh rich,” he told DancehallMag.

The event, which was held on Sunday at Premier Restaurant & Lounge featured Delly Ranx, Pressure Busspipe, Rasfrazier, Little Pinchers, and Dajah.

Malvo is still encouraging those who are able to donate to the cause.

“We just want people fi donate to Tiger and help him out. People reach out to me and tell mi seh dem love wah gwaan and how we come together fi help him,” he added.

Tiger, given name Norman Jackson, recently suffered a minor stroke. He has been battling a number of health complications since being involved in a near-fatal car accident in 1993.

The stroke, reportedly his second within the last several years, has affected the left side of the deejay’s body and his mobility.

Malvo further said the benefit concert was well executed.

“The whole thing was successful. The artiste dem come out and everybody do well and it was just a nice Sunday vibe,” the entertainer added.

Malvo was featured on Tiger’s 1987 hit Come Back To Me.

In the second half of the 1980s, he became a major star of Jamaican music, and recorded for producers including Harry J, King Jammy, Gussie Clarke, Sly & Robbie, Philip “Fatis” Burrell and Donovan Germain.

Tiger had several chart-riders that decade before suffering a brief decline. In January 1993 he was struck from his motorcycle in St Andrew. The accident resulted in him suffering extensive head injuries and he has been in and out of hospital since.