?I always enjoy it,? he says, ?There are three places I consider like home other than Jamaica: Belize, Guyana and Barbados.? Dobson says his reception in Belize has always been fantastic. ?People in Belize have been so nice to me in all my appearances here. Once I came to Belize and a lady shouted to me. She said, ?Dobby Dobson!? and I stopped. She said, ?If you don?t sing Butterfly, go back home!? And that felt so much like home.? In 2002, Belize City Mayor David Fonseca presented Dobson with the Key to the City. That has remained his most memorable, and most profound, experience in Belize. ?I still have it [the key] on my wall, right next to the key to Georgetown, Guyana?That experience blew my mind. There was a little motorcade, and people putting flowers ?round my neck. It was so nice. It just felt like coming home,? says Dobson. Amandala asked, ?What can the Belizean people expect this weekend?? ?Whatever they want, they?ll get. For sure,? answered the soulful crooner. ?I?m gonna be singing songs for lovers. I hope that people who were in love and fell out of love will get back into love again. I hope that they will dance so close that breeze cannot pass through them, to my songs Muriel, Butterfly, Sweet Dreams, etc. etc. etc.? Dobson, who currently resides in Miami, Florida, says he would love to live in Belize. ?It?s a little peace of heaven. Anybody who comes to Belize would want to come back, and anybody who comes back more than once would want to live here. I would love to live here if I could, um, find the right partner to settle down with down here. Know anybody?? he asks with a laugh. Dobby Dobson first attracted attention during Jamaica?s Rocksteady era in the 1960s. His first album, That Wonderful Sound, was produced by Rupee Edwards and released in 1969. His latest album is Lovers? Prayer, released just before the New Year. Dobson has also recently released a gospel album entitled He Knows My Heart. He will be performing both old and new favorites, like The Great Pretender, Muriel and the classic, Loving Pauper, at Club Honey Beez on Coney Drive this Saturday night. Tickets are available from Stone Music Outlet and The Record Shack for $25.00.
