{"id":10910,"date":"2025-06-27T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10910"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:01:08","slug":"laurell-nurse-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10910","title":{"rendered":"Laurell Nurse in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Laurell Nurse makes a comeback to the music scene with <strong><em>\u2018It\u2019s My House\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a reggae cover of Diana Ross\u2019 1979 hit. Her version, produced by Richie Stephens, was released in May.<\/p>\n<p>Based in the tri-state region, Nurse was encouraged to record the song by Stephens after she sent him a voice demo. He said her sound reminded him of Diana Ross, and she should take a crack at <strong><em>\u2018It\u2019s My House\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t familiar with the original. I listened to it a few times and wasn&#8217;t ready, but Richie said just follow his guide, so I became his protege in the studio and now out of the studio,\u201d said Laurell Nurse, who is from Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>While best known as founder of the\u00a0Queens of Reggae Island Honorary Ceremony (QORIHC), which salutes women in the entertainment industry, she is a registered nurse who launched her recording career just over 10 years ago. To date, Nurse\u2019s songs include a cover of Gregory Isaacs\u2019 <strong><em>\u2018Night Nurse\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to her health sector duties and organizing the QORIHC, singing took a backseat. Last year, after opening the show alongside singer Gem Myers, the enthusiastic audience response prompted Nurse to make a return to the recording studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic never left my mind, never left my unfinished things to complete, but when I opened the last QORIHC, Gem Myers and I did Whitney Houston&#8217;s The Greatest Love of All and instantly we knew it was time,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Laurell Nurse makes a comeback to the music scene with \u2018It\u2019s My House\u2019, a reggae cover of Diana Ross\u2019 1979 hit. Her version, produced by Richie Stephens, was released in May. Based in the tri-state region, Nurse was encouraged to record the song by Stephens after she sent him a voice demo. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10910","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\/10910","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=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10911,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions\/10911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}