Jah Cure
Artist. Roots, dancehall, reggae
- Active
- 1997-present
- Sunrise
- October 11, 1978, Hanover
- Also known as
- Little Melody, Siccaturie Alcock, Siccature Alcock
Jah Cure (Siccaturie Alcock) is a singer of the Bobo Ashanti persuasion, one of the cultural voices of the late 1990s, whose career has been twice interrupted by prison.
Born in Hanover, he sang as "Little Melody" before moving to Kingston, where Capleton gave him his name. Beres Hammond became his mentor and producer, and his first break was "Kings in the Jungle" (1997), with Sizzla, on Hammond's Harmony House label. He also cut "Chant Rastaman" for the Firehouse Crew and "My People Calling" for Morgan Heritage, and Fatis Burrell recorded him; the Rough Guide compares him most often to Burning Spear. Ryan B. Patrick writes of his "trademark plaintive vocal approach."
In 1998 he was arrested in Montego Bay, and in April 1999 the Gun Court convicted him of rape, robbery and gun possession and sentenced him to fifteen years; the Rough Guide noted that he still protested his innocence. In prison he went on recording at the studio in the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, and his popularity grew there: "Longing For," for Don Corleon, and "Love Is" were among the hits, and a "Free Jah Cure" campaign followed. He was paroled on July 28, 2007, days before VP Records issued True Reflections ... A New Beginning. "Unconditional Love" was a later hit, and his 2015 album The Cure was nominated for a Grammy.
In October 2021 he stabbed the concert promoter Nicardo "Papa" Blake on Dam Square in Amsterdam, over unpaid fees. An Amsterdam court rejected his claim of self-defense and in March 2022 sentenced him to six years for attempted manslaughter; on appeal in October 2025 the conviction was raised to attempted murder and the sentence to eight years and four months.
Last updated November 5, 2026
Connections
- The Firehouse Crew (backing group)
- Fatis Burrell (producer)
- Beres Hammond (producer)
- Clive Hunt (producer)
- Morgan Heritage (producer)
- Sizzla (collaborator)
- Duane Stephenson (collaborator)
- Jah Mason (collaborator)
- Fantan Mojah (collaborator)
- I Wayne (collaborator)
Notes
- Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd ed. (London: Rough Guides, 2004), 355, 377.
- Claude Mills, "The Rise and Fall of Jah Cure: Will He Rise Again?," Jamaica Observer, March 23, 2022, https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/03/22/the-rise-and-fall-of-jah-cure-will-he-rise-again. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 357, 378.
- Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 356, 366, 372, 377.
- Ryan B. Patrick, review of Jah Cure, The Cure, Exclaim!, July 10, 2015, https://exclaim.ca/music/article/jah_cure-cure.
- Mills, "The Rise and Fall of Jah Cure." Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 377. The Rough Guide describes the charges as "rape and firearms charges."
- Mills, "The Rise and Fall of Jah Cure." Discogs dates the Don Corleon single of "Longing For" to 2004; the Observer gives 2005. "Jah Cure: Longing For," Discogs, accessed October 7, 2026, https://www.discogs.com/release/1363111.
- Mills, "The Rise and Fall of Jah Cure." "Grammy-Nominated Reggae Star Jah Cure Gets More Jail Time in Amsterdam Promoter Stabbing," NL Times, October 31, 2025, https://nltimes.nl/node/84241.
- Stephanie Lyew, "Jah Cure Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Attempted Manslaughter," Jamaica Gleaner, March 22, 2022, https://past.jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20220322/jah-cure-sentenced-six-years-prison-attempted-manslaughter. Claude Mills, "Jah Cure Gets More Years behind Bars after Appeal by Prosecutors," Jamaica Observer, October 31, 2025, https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/10/31/jah-cure-gets-years-behind-bars-appeal-prosecutors/. "Grammy-Nominated Reggae Star Jah Cure Gets More Jail Time in Amsterdam Promoter Stabbing," NL Times, October 31, 2025, https://nltimes.nl/node/84241. The Observer reports that both sides had appealed and that the appeal ruling was issued on October 30, 2025.
