Reggae Singer Booked For Sumfest 2019 Stabbed To Death In Bahamas

Recording artiste Devon “Mdeez” Knight who was scheduled to perform on Reggae Sumfest 2019, was stabbed to death in his native country Bahamas last week Friday.

Mdeez best known for songs like;  Love Is, Bad Company, Times Hard and TKO, was booked to perform on July 19 at Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre in Montego Bay for this year’s staging of Reggae Sumfest.

Initial reports from the Tribute suggest that the reggae star died from a stab wound he sustained during a road rage from a traffic accident. However, the police commissioner later clarified that he got into the accident after getting the stab wound. The singer was apparently trying to drive himself to the hospital when he lost consciousness and crashed his car.

The traffic accident took placed at approximately 7:00 pm on the night in question when two vehicles collided at the junction of Prince Charles Drive and Fox Hill Road. Mdeez was transported to hospital by paramedics and later died. A 32-year-old man has since been taken into police custody in connection with the killing.

Reggae Sumfest CEO, Josef Bogdanovich has expressed shock and sadness at the death of the singer. “I am extremely saddened by the loss of a talented musician in such a senseless act of violence. The Sumfest family wishes to let Mdeez’s family and other loved ones know that we share in their grief and deeply regret that he will not be performing at the festival,” he said.

According to Bogdanovich, he learned about Mdeez after a friend of his, pointed him out as one of the rising reggae acts in the Bahamas.

“I followed up on his recommendation and looked at one of Mdeez’s videos. Impressed by his performance, I invited him to join the line-up for Festival Night 1. I was particularly happy to provide an opportunity for a Bahamian artiste with Jamaican roots, as it is my philosophy that it is our music that is the unifying element in our region,” Bogdanovich noted.