Long road to reconciliation - Queen Ifrica not close to burying hatchet with dad
Daddy Don't Touch Me There hitmaker Queen Ifrica says her father, Derrick Morgan, would have to get baptised and "go down inna sackcloth and ashes" before she entertains the idea of reconciliation.
The father-daughter relationship has been on rocky grounds for some time, and has gotten worse with the trading of verbal barbs on social media. In fact, the elder Morgan, a renowned ska entertainer, recently retained the services of a lawyer to sue his daughter for defamation after she made some serious allegations about him.
Queen Ifrica, who said she is yet to be served with court documents, steered clear of discussing the potentially explosive legal matter. However, she told THE STAR in an exclusive interview that her father would have to undergo significant personal transformation before she entertains the idea of reconciliation.
"I have been advocating for the reconciliation but dem choose war," she said, pointing the fingers at siblings who, she said, have sided with her father.
"When it's all over, if him give himself to God and sincerely go down inna sackcloth and ashes, mi wi find it inna mi heart fi forgive him. Him a di only person who ever done wrong to mi weh mi nuh forgive yet," she said.
Earlier this week, the ska legend said that money is at the heart of the dispute between himself and his estranged daughter. He said he was asked by Tony Rebel, who was then Queen Ifrica's partner, to perform at his annual show, Rebel Salute. According to the Rudies Don't Fear toaster, he requested a fee of $200,000 but Tony Rebel countered with $50,000. The show's concept was to have a celebration of a three generations in music -- Derrick Morgan, his daughter Queen Ifrica, and her son Tafari.
The veteran artiste said he told Tony Rebel, 'Listen to me, take that and feed your crack-head friend dem.' He said, following his conversation with Tony Rebel, he received a phone call from Queen Ifrica during which she expressed her disappointment and threatened to "get him down".
However, in refuting her father's statement, the Lion On The Rise singer said money was not the real reason for the fall-out.
"Tony Rebel made an offer of $300,000 to perform at Rebel Salute and he refused to take it, but he took, I think, $200,000 and came to the show. Of course, there was a rift after him mek that demand, but the rift wasn't about the money, but it's because I was upset," she said.
Queen Ifrica repeated the serious allegations she made against her dad and said she felt that he should have "just humble himself and come perform fi free".
"Mi call him and seh 'afta weh yuh duh mi yuh can't even come a di show come work free?' And a deh suh di whole passa passa start."