New Album Supports Gregory Isaacs Foundation and Anti-Drug Campaign
In memory of Isaacs, who died of lung cancer on October 25th, 2010, Tad’s and African Museum will donate a portion of the album’s sales to the Gregory Isaacs Foundation, founded on July 15, 2011, which would have been Isaacs’ 60th birthday. The foundation will support basic education and children’s charities in Jamaica."The foundation will be offering assistance to the St. Barnabas Basic School in Fletcher's Land, the first school Gregory attended. We will be donating 2 toilets and a wash basin," says June Isaacs, adding that the foundation will also be "donating school supplies and maybe a computer to Black Harmony Basic School in St. Catherine, and clothes and groceries to the Walkers Place of Safety in Kingston, which were institutions that Gregory assisted in his lifetime."
In addition to foundation, Ms. Isaacs will utilize Gregory Issacs - The African Museum & Tad’s Collection Vol. II to launch an anti-drug campaign in the coming weeks, which will warn children of the dangers of illegal drugs. Gregory Isaacs’ career was shrouded by a crippling addiction to cocaine, which caused irreparable damage to his voice and led to over 20 arrests for drugs and drug-related crimes.
"Drugs are a debasing weapon," Isaacs told The Telegraph in 2007. "It was the greatest college ever, but the most expensive school fee ever paid – the Cocaine High School.”
Get it on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gregory-isaacs-the-african/id472669796
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