Anita Mahfood

Early life

Anita Mahfood was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She had three sisters. Her father was Jad Mahfood, a fisherman. Her family were Syrian-Lebanese-Jamaican, with ancestors who emigrated from Syria and Lebanon to Jamaica in the 1870s to pursue commercial trade.

In the early 1960s, Mahfood met Don Drummond, trombone player of the Skatalites, at Count Ossie's Rastafarian commune in the Wareika Hills. By the time they met, Drummond had schizophrenia Drummond went to the local police station and claimed that Mahfood had stabbed herself. When the police arrived at the house, Mahfood was dead on the bed, with the knife still in her body, and her hand shoved inside the bell of Drummond's trombone.

Discography "Woman Come" (1964) on Black Swan records

Filmography It Can Happen to You (1956)