Fantan Mojah’s manager rejects illness rumours, recalls final days

Reggae singer Fantan Mojah’s longtime manager, Ken, has spoken publicly about the artist’s final days, stressing that Mojah’s only health problem was a heart condition already known to the public and rejecting other claims circulating in the media since his death earlier this week.

Appearing on Television Jamaica’s Daytime Live, Ken said Mojah had recently returned from recommended treatment in the United States, which he accompanied him for, and that the singer had seemed largely well afterward. The camp had been lining up a United States tour and a European trip due the following week, with visa arrangements already complete. A separate show deferred from the previous year — cancelled after Mojah fell ill following Reggae Sumfest — was also meant to go ahead this year.

Ken said Mojah’s condition worsened over the weekend. His sister, who was constantly with him, took him to hospital. He was fine through Sunday and Monday, but deteriorated on Tuesday and died. Ken said he was at the hospital until that Tuesday afternoon and left with Mojah’s sister after the end.

He insisted Mojah had a single ailment — his heart — and that reports of any other illness were untrue. Ken accused people formerly linked to Mojah of feeding negative stories to the press to damage his reputation, pointing to an episode about two years ago in 2024 when Mojah fell ill in Martinique. A prior manager had booked that show; Ken stayed away and first learned of the illness from media reports, which he said could only have come from people close to the camp.

The same pattern, he said, followed Mojah’s death: articles appeared by the time he reached home, though only a few people knew at that stage, and that night there were further disruptions, including a page being hacked. He said the family is devastated. The shock, he explained, came because Mojah had followed medical advice and they believed he would recover, even though they knew of the heart problem.

Ken remembered Mojah as among the most joyful people he had known — always laughing and in good spirits — and said those he loved were with him at the end. Asked for a favourite track, he named “Hail the King.” He also said Mojah’s legal team is dealing with outstanding matters and stated publicly that former manager Ray Stevens, also known as Vertex, had not worked with Mojah for years. Ken said they reject much of what Stevens has put in the media and asked the public to remember Mojah for his uplifting music and energy.

The programme also aired a clip of Mojah’s high-energy 2018 Reggae Sumfest performance.