Omar’s dreadlocks sprout from the top of his head with all the elegance of kudzu spilling over a pine-tree limb. Add an eyebrow ring, and an ethnic background that includes a Chinese-Jamaican… ...

Omar Lye-Fook emerged at a resurgent time for UK soul, the late-1980s golden age of Soul II Soul and Mica Paris. His 1991 hit “There’s Nothing Like This” won him influential fans in the US ...