By Howard Campbell— Maxi Priest—- Growing up in London, singer Maxi Priest looked up to his uncle Sydney Elliott, a vocalist who recorded in the 1960s. He did not know until his teens that one of Uncle Sydney’s sons was Jacob Miller, the charismatic roots singer and front-man for the Inner Circle band. Priest’s father Alfred was Sydney Elliott’s older brother. Jacob Miller used his mother’s surname. “I always loved up to my uncle. When we went to his home it was an experience. I even have one of his songs on my website,” said Priest. The Elliotts are from Ballard’s Valley in St Elizabeth. They migrated to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s; Alfred and his wife Hyacinth settled in Lewisham, south-east London, while Sydney lived in Kent. Maxi Priest, who is in his early … Read entire article »