Love With You". Around this time, Ellis recut many of her Coxsone/Studio One sides with Soul Syndicate, The Aggrovators and the up-and-coming team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. The rise of the Lovers Rock genre in the late seventies and early eighties led to Ellis cutting cover version of several popular soul classics including "Down the Aisle" (Patti LaBelle) and "Young Hearts Run Free" (Candi Staton). Following her divorce from Mikey Saunders, Ellis spent much of the eighties living in New York City and Miami. On returning to Jamaica in 1989, she began suffering health problems, but managed to carry on with occasional local live performances. She recovered sufficiently to make a private visit to New York in the summer of 1999, and then to Miami the following year, where ill health finally caught up with her. Despite a worsening condition and the pleadings of her daughter, Sandra Saunders, to seek immediate treatment there in Miami, Ellis insisted on returning to her beloved Jamaica where she was hospitalised almost immediately, seriously ill and in considerable pain. Hortense Ellis died in her sleep in a Kingston hospital on 19 October 2000 from a stomach infection. See also List of reggae musicians References This article contains material from hortense-ellis.com; copied with permission. The Jamaica Gleaner reports the death of Hortense Ellis Obituary taken from the Independent newspaper 1941 births 2000 deaths Musicians from Kingston, Jamaica Jamaican reggae musicians Infectious disease deaths in Jamaica