{"id":10742,"date":"2025-05-23T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:16:28","slug":"kenne-blessin-gets-your-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10742","title":{"rendered":"Kenne Blessin Gets Your Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenne Blesssin had romance on his mind when he started production on what became <strong><em>\u2018Caught My Attention\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his second album. Initially, the project was to be his second EP.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the Atlanta-based singer\u2019s focus changed and <strong><em>\u2018Caught My Attention\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>became a more rounded effort. It was released in February through Dacosta Muzic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started as a love EP, with songs like <strong><em>\u2018Falling for You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Be with You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Understanding\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Caught My Attention\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Then I realized I couldn\u2019t jus\u2019 do a love EP, it needs to have content about self-awareness an\u2019 world affairs without being political or religious,\u201d said Kenne Blessin.<\/p>\n<p>Containing 15 songs, <strong><em>\u2018Caught My Attention\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was released seven years after his debut album, <strong><em>\u2018Get Up &amp; Go\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. His EP, \u2018Millions\u2019, came out in 2020 while he recorded well-received covers of Simply Red\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Holding Back the Years\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Perfect\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, originally done by Ed Sheeran.<\/p>\n<p>Kenne Blessin worked with Dominic Gall and Peter Frederick out of the United Kingdom on <strong><em>\u2018Caught My Attention\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, as well as session musicians from that country. On a cover of Barrington Levy\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Vice Versa Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, the marijuana-friendly <strong><em>\u2018Ganja from Jah\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and the soca song, <strong><em>\u2018My Love Will Never Die\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he shows his versatility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted it to be world enough so everyone can listen,\u201d said Kenne Blessin.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kingston, he was raised in St. Thomas, a rural parish in eastern Jamaica. Kenne Blessin also spent some time in Antigua where he was part of a rock band and developed an appreciation for soca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenne Blesssin had romance on his mind when he started production on what became \u2018Caught My Attention\u2019, his second album. Initially, the project was to be his second EP. Over time, the Atlanta-based singer\u2019s focus changed and \u2018Caught My Attention\u2019 became a more rounded effort. It was released in February through Dacosta Muzic. \u201cIt started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10742","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\/10742","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=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10743,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions\/10743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}