{"id":10222,"date":"2025-02-21T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:02:23","slug":"ambelique-goes-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10222","title":{"rendered":"Ambelique Goes Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambelique is all the rage in South Florida and tri-state reggae circles. His album, <strong><em>\u2018Blind Spot\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, is number one for the second straight week on the Foundation Radio Network Chart which covers New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018I\u2019m Thankful\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, one of the songs from that Willie Lindo-produced set, is number one on the South Florida Reggae Chart. \u2018Blind Spot\u2019, Ambelique\u2019s ninth album, was released last November by Lindo\u2019s Heavy Beat Records.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton Lindsay, the respected Jamaican broadcaster, compiles those charts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Blind Spot\u2019<\/em><\/strong> came out 20 years after <strong><em>\u2018Let\u2019s Take a Chance\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Ambelique\u2019s previous album. It contains a cover of American soul singer Bobby Blue Bland\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Ain\u2019t No Love in The Heart of The City\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which also did well in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>While he has been recording music since the 1980s, Ambelique\u2019s first album was released during the late 1990s. That set, <strong><em>\u2018Ambelique Sings the Classics\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, was produced by Sly and Robbie and includes covers of Lionel Richie\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Penny Lover\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018La Bamba\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, originally done by Richie Valens.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong><em>\u2018Blind Spot\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he worked with Lindo, a prolific session guitarist who played on timeless songs including <strong><em>\u2018Everything I Own\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Ken Boothe and <strong><em>\u2018Dat\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Pluto Shervington during the 1970s. He also produced a number of hit singles such as Dennis Brown\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Inseparable\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018What One Dance Can Do\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Beres Hammond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambelique is all the rage in South Florida and tri-state reggae circles. His album, \u2018Blind Spot\u2019, is number one for the second straight week on the Foundation Radio Network Chart which covers New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. \u2018I\u2019m Thankful\u2019, one of the songs from that Willie Lindo-produced set, is number one on the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}