Minister Grange was quick to add, “And I don’t seh that Peter did anything deliberately … it’s just that we not thinking seriously about the business side of the business. And all these years everybody though that Peter was the writer.” He kept saying that ‘Bwoy … mi tell mi manager fi tek care of it, but him nah tek care of it.’ There are three well-known people in the industry, including Copeland, andevery time the artiste go on tour I’d give him the letter and seh, ‘Tell him to sign it.’ Eventually, it was signed and brought back to me, and we were able to get the funds for Joe.” It took me three years to get the particular artiste to sign, saying that he was not the writer of the song. “I did a worldwide search and found that money was out there, because wasn’t properly being managed as a title by a publisher. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.
Grange started a journey to assist Higgs with getting his money, and keeping his house. ‘I know that there is money out there for me and I don’t want to lose mi house.’” Joe Higgs was losing his house, and him come to me and seh. And the artiste record the song.’ But the song was listed as the artiste’s song.
I entered it in the Jamaica Festival Song Competition and dem neva choose it, and mi carry it go to a particular artiste and gi him and seh, ‘We a go record da song yah man. “I remember Joe Higgs came to me and him seh, ‘Bwoy, Miss B, I have a song and I know seh it getting play. In fact, there were quite a few faces wearing loud question signs and knitted brows last Tuesday inside The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, when, at the end of a gripping story about Joe Higgs, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange finally revealed the name of the song and the true writer.ĭuring an impassioned call to artistes to get their affair in order, from estate planning to securing their royalties and publishing by engaging “a good publishing company who can search the world and see if you have money out there”, she used Joe Gibbs as “a good example”. Tosh’s masterful imprint on Steppin’ Razor has been so powerful that it is easy not to remember Higgs’ role in bringing it to life. But, just as critical to the story of the song is the songwriter Joe Higgs, who entered Steppin’ Razor in the Festival Song Competition, but it was not deemed worthy.
Closely intertwined in the story of the song Steppin’ Razor, is the 6-foot-four-inch-tall Wailer named Peter Tosh, who was known as the ‘Steppin’ Razor’.
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