For more than four decades, Kingsley Copper served in multiple executive roles at Pulse Investments Limited. Through the company, his contribution to national development helped shape the country’s entertainment, fashion, and real estate industries. The noted fashion and entertainment trailblazer, attorney-at-law, and founder and chairman of Pulse Investments Limited, died at the HCA Kendall Hospital in Florida on June 18 surrounded by his family.
He was 71. “We mourn the loss of an innovator, extraordinary leader, father, husband, and visionary. The Cooper family is immensely grateful for his life and legacy, and we thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support,” said his family in a release.
Kingsley Cooper was born in Kingston on June 3, 1953. His father, Daniel Cooper, worked in a clothing factory in England, and upon returning to Jamaica, had a tailoring business on Langston Road. The Cooper patriarch’s relationship to the arts evidently impacted his children.
Today, Donnette Cooper is world-renowned for her quilted artwork while Dr Carolyn Cooper is the esteemed academic of literary and cultural studies who taught at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, for 36 years. Still, as Kingsley Cooper recalled in a 2023 interview on The Alrick Show , it was while a student at Kingston College that he began to invest a bit more in his creative endeavours. One of his early influences was his art instructor, the renowned Jamaican artist Alexander Co.
