{"id":10412,"date":"2025-03-21T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:01:38","slug":"a-second-serving-of-reggae-loves-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10412","title":{"rendered":"A Second Serving of Reggae Loves Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese reggae buff Eisaku Yamaguchi, known as Selector A, will release the latest in his \u2018Reggae Loves\u2019 projects in July. <strong><em>\u2018Reggae Loves Africa Vol. II\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is the title of the 10-song album which will be distributed by VP Records.<\/p>\n<p>His first <strong><em>\u2018Reggae Loves Africa\u2019<\/em><\/strong> compilation album was released in 2014 and also came out on that New York-based label.\u00a0 Like the first <strong><em>\u2018Reggae Loves Africa\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Volume II\u2019 is inspired by developments on the African continent and South African icon Nelson Mandela, his country\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album is inspired by Nelson Mandela, his love for Africa, the future he dreamed of, and the fight he never gave up on. His unwavering belief in justice and equality continues to resonate with people around the world,\u201d said Selector A. \u201cThrough this album, I hope to carry on that message and inspire not just Africans in Africa, but people from all corners of the world to come together and help build a stronger, better Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Music Is the Rod\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Garnet Silk, <strong><em>\u2018Africa is Calling\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Frankie Paul, and \u2018<strong><em>Black Woman &amp; Child\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Sizzla are some of the songs on <strong><em>\u2018Reggae Loves Africa Volume II\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Selector A is from Kanagawa, a district in southern Japan close to the capital Tokyo. A fan of reggae for over 30 years, he has lived in the United States since 1995.\u00a0 <strong><em>\u2018Reggae Loves Jah\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Reggae Loves Romance\u2019<\/em><\/strong> are his other compilation albums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese reggae buff Eisaku Yamaguchi, known as Selector A, will release the latest in his \u2018Reggae Loves\u2019 projects in July. \u2018Reggae Loves Africa Vol. II\u2019 is the title of the 10-song album which will be distributed by VP Records. His first \u2018Reggae Loves Africa\u2019 compilation album was released in 2014 and also came out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10412","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\/10412","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=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}