Carisa Lee

The broth­er of mur­dered lo­cal dance­hall artiste Kyle “Rebel Sixx” George echoed his moth­er’s call for peace at the singer’s fu­ner­al ser­vice yes­ter­day.

George was shot dead on Sun­day 5 Ju­ly when gun­men stormed his home.

His moth­er asked that there be no re­tal­i­a­tion for his death, as she spoke through a video post­ed on so­cial me­dia.

“Ven­gence is the Lord’s,” she said.

At the Dibe Church of the Nazarene at Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James, Jef­fery Fran­cis Jnr ad­mit­ted dur­ing the eu­lo­gy that he was an­gry and hurt by the way his broth­er was tak­en away.

How­ev­er, he stressed that love is what is need­ed right now.

“We need our peo­ple...we need black peo­ple to love our­self,” he said.

“We need to stop walk­ing around and see­ing oth­er black broth­ers and say­ing I don’t like this one,” he con­tin­ued.

Fran­cis Jnr said he be­lieves the peo­ple who killed his broth­er did not have a rea­son and were bad­ly in­flu­enced. But he wants the killing to end there.

He then vasked the con­gre­ga­tion to hug and tell one an­oth­er that they love them.

“You see that feel­ing you just get in­side, that is what we need,” he said.

While the church tried to ad­here to COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions by lim­it­ing the num­ber of peo­ple in­side, on the streets it was an­oth­er pic­ture as hun­dreds came to bid Rebel Sixx farewell.

His songs blast­ed as his fans sang along to his hits ‘Ri­fle War’ and ‘BI6’ which he sang with an­oth­er late dance­hall artiste Kwin­ton ‘K Li­on’ Thomas.

Thomas died of heart fail­ure in ear­ly June.

There was one thing George’s fam­i­ly mem­bers, friends, and fans agreed on, that was his tal­ent. Al­most every­one who spoke on his be­half said he was des­tined to be a singer.

“Af­ter a per­for­mance, she would be up and down with all her friends say­ing al­lyuh hear my child voice,” Fran­cis Jnr said.

“First time I heard Kyle sing I was like what?” his for­mer coach said.

Al­lis­tar Ram­doo said he told Kyle that he should give up foot­ball and pur­sue singing. His broth­er re­count­ed a mem­o­ry of when they got their first com­put­er. He said while he down­loaded games, Kyle fo­cused on beats to sing along to.

“Over the years I saw him de­vel­op his craft in­to what it is to­day,” Fran­cis Jnr said.

“It was a long and ar­du­ous jour­ney,” he con­tin­ued.

The singer’s moth­er was un­able to at­tend the fu­ner­al but she sent a voice note that said she is grate­ful that he left his mark on this world. She promised that his chil­dren will be well tak­en care of.

“I al­ways said you would preach and you did preach,” she said.

The singer whose name start­ed mak­ing head­way in the lo­cal dance in­dus­try in 2019 has gained mil­lions of views on video-shar­ing plat­form YouTube.