Seymour Mullings

Seymour St. Edward "Foggy" Mullings OJ CD (12 May 1931 – 9 October 2013) was a Jamaican politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister under P. J. Patterson.

[2] He worked as a jazz pianist from the 1940s to the 1960s, playing with the likes of Don Drummond and Cluett Johnson, and in the late 1940s was a member of the Wilton Gaynair All-Star band.

[3][4][5] He was also organist at the Anglican Church in Claremont, St. Ann [6] Mullings served as president of the Jamaica Federations of Musicians, and was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.

[2][9] He retired from parliament in 2002, although he still attended parliamentary sittings for several years, and was appointed as ambassador to Washington, D.C., a post he held until 2004.

[2][10] Seymour Mullings died at Andrews Memorial Hospital in Kingston on 9 October 2013, aged 82, after a long illness.