Career
He was known as the "Jackie Wilson of Jamaica", and was a gifted dancer. In the early 1960s, he was discovered by Byron Lee, the band master of the Dragonaires, who brought him to Jamaica. His styles included ska, Rhythm & Blues, soul, gospel, and calypso.
He is credited with inventing spouge music, a fusion of ska, calypso, and Rhythm & Blues music
Opel performed duos with Doreen Schaffer and Hortense Ellis, and in 1964 was backed by Wailers Bob Marley and Peter Tosh on "Mill Manitoba", "Hairy Mango" and "A time to cry" and maybe some others like "I Don´t Want Her". Opel eventually moved to Trinidad and then subsequently to Barbados.
On 8 March 1970, he died in a car crash in Bridgetown, Barbados.