TO the world he was Errol Scorcher, the deejay who had people dancing to songs such as Roach Inna Di Corner and Bubble Under Me, but to Dorna Brown he was the man who fulfilled all her dreams.
"He was more than family to me. He was all my family rolled into one. He went out of his way to ensure I was happy... I don't know how I am gonna pick up the pieces," Brown told the Observer as she made a valiant effort to hold back the tears.
Shaking her head and taking a deep breath, she continued to talk about the man she had been with for nine years and was engaged to.
"He could be really stubborn. When he held a point, it was hard to shake him," she said with a smile.
Errol Scorcher, whose real name is Errol Archer, died in the Spanish Town Hospital last Thursday as a result of a blood vessel ruptured in his head.
But for Brown, what she is going to miss the most was their nightly ritual. She shared that Scorcher would come home from the studio and religiously ask her to give him a rundown of the day's happenings. After she had related everything to him, she in turn would ask him about his day and he would say, "Mi waan sleep now!"
Brown said she would complain that she wanted to hear his story, too.
"We never got tired of it," she said, as a sad expression crept back across her face.
The love story began in February 2003 when she met Scorcher. By August, they were an item with the flame of love continuing to burn up to the time of his death.
"I have so many wonderful memories of him, I don't even know where to start," Brown told the Observer.
One such memory she said was the night he surprised her with a new pair of shoes. "I was sleeping and I felt something touching my foot. I kicked and jumped up, only to see Scorcher at the foot of the bed trying to fit the shoe on my foot!"
Another memory for Brown is her late fiancé's wicked sense of humour. "He was fun to be around and could make you laugh, he was a real man of drama," Brown said.
"It's so hard..." she said, adding that she had no clue that Monday, January 16 would have been the last evening she would spend with him.
"He came in early Monday from the studio and stayed with me at the shop until it was time to lock up," she related. They retired for the night and in the morning he woke up and told her that his "head a spin". Brown said Scorcher left for the bathroom and when she didn't see him return she went in there to see him crouched unconscious between the bath and the toilet.
On the Thursday of that week, she said she went to visit him and prayed for him, he was still unconscious, but she saw tears coming from his eyes.
"I wiped his tears, while crying too," she said, adding that she left the room briefly, and by the time she returned he had passed.
"I don't know how I am gonna go on," she said.
Scorcher's death comes just one month after losing his mother, who died in the United States.
"He was cut up about her death as he couldn't make it to her funeral. They buried her quickly and he couldn't make it in time. He hadn't seen her in a while," Brown reflected.
Errol Scorcher died leaving nine children -- four boys and five girls. The couple had no children together.
— Cecelia Campbell-Livingston
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