Mr. Easy Happy His Song Brought “Peace” To Dog Paw’s Funeral Mourners
Dancehall star Mr. Easy recently shared a clip of the funeral of Christopher “Dog Paw” Linton with his song, Wish You Were Here blaring out of the speakers of a hearse only hours ahead of the slain gangster’s interment at Dovecot Memorial Park in St Catherine.
“People told me that they played the song from the funeral home to the cemetery over and over again,” Mr. Easy told DancehallMag. “I don’t even know what kind of coincidence this is because the clip was shot at the same place I shot my video, the same place where the coffin stand up was the same place I stood to perform the song in the video.”
“It shows that the song is relevant to all human beings who has lost someone, whether that person is a bishop, or an ordinary Jamaican.”
Mr. Easy, who is known for songs such as Drive Me Crazy and Murder on the Bruk Out riddim, revealed that Wish You Were Here is being played in funerals in Trelawny, Kingston, and St. Elizabeth.
The clip, which was also broadcast on CVM Television, showed mourners milling around a fancy chariot in which the body had been transported to the Dovecot Memorial Park.
The funeral was performed by Bonner’s Funeral Home.
“The song has a meaning to many people who are mourning or feeling pain at the death of a loved one, this is just to give them peace. Whatever solace it brought to the mourners at Dog Paw’s funeral, I am thankful because in the end, we all have loved ones,” he said.
The R&B flavored Wish You Were Here on the Changez riddim was released in September.
More than 50 relatives and close friends were in attendance at the Dovecot Memorial Park as well as heavy police and military presence. They described him as a loving and caring protector.
Leah Tavares-Finson, the mother of one of Linton’s children and daughter of Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson, delivered a tribute.
“When death comes, it is so difficult because it is difficult to face, it is so final because you know you will never see that person again,” Leah said.
During her tribute, she revealed that Linton was born on September 30, 1986 at Victoria Jubilee Hospital, and was raised in a humble Christian home along with his brothers. He enjoyed playing football, attending Sunday School and watching cartoons.
She explained the origins behind his ‘Dog Paw’ name, saying that the cartoon he loved the most was Paw Paw Bears. His childhood friends teased him that he bore a striking resemblance to Dark Paw, one of the cartoon characters, and later, an evolution of this name led to him being given the sinister nickname ‘Dog Paw’.
A notorious underworld figure, Linton was shot dead by cops almost six months after his release from jail in April this year.
He was killed during a reported firefight on John Golding Road in Elletson Flats on October 11, 2021.