Drummer Squidly Cole had been rehearsing with Stephen Marley’s band for the Roots and Rhymes Summer Tour with Marley and Buju Banton, which is currently in motion across the US. But when his father, Stranger Cole, took sick, it was a given that Squidly's priorities had to shift.

"I was the one who was taking daddy to his doctor's appointments and being there with him when he was doing his tests and being admitted to [the] hospital," Squidly told The Sunday Gleaner.

It was known that Stranger was having back pains, but the pioneering ska, rocksteady, and reggae singer was of the old school where men hardly visit the doctor. When he did, the diagnosis wasn't what the family wanted to hear, but even when Stranger was admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies, there was still hope.