{"id":10912,"date":"2025-06-27T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10912"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:03:42","slug":"dretegs-finds-common-ground-with-sizzla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10912","title":{"rendered":"Dretegs Finds Common Ground with Sizzla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising producer Dretegs has teamed with Sizzla for <strong>\u2018So In Love\u2019<\/strong>, a yearning ballad that was released on June 20 by his Dretegs Music Jams label. The song is the first single from recording sessions that took place early this year.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was the first time the two were working together, Dretegs said the process was smooth, with Sizzla writing all the songs. He described the tracks as the singjay\u2019s most organic work in some time, and that \u201cit marks a return to his roots, both musically and spiritually.\u201d According to Dretegs, \u201cThis record was built for real fans \u2014 the ones who miss that original Kalonji energy. We brought it back full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sessions took place at Dretegs\u2019 studio in The Bronx where he has conducted similar projects with artists based in New York and from Jamaica. Some of those acts are members of the much-touted roots revival in Jamaica, such as Jesse Royal and Dre Island.<\/p>\n<p>Born Andre Hawthorne in Kingston, the 39-year-old producer got his start in music playing keyboards in his church band. In recent years, Dretegs\u2019 stocks have risen considerably; he has also worked with Etana, Kranium, Dexta Daps, Chi Ching Ching and D Major.<\/p>\n<p>While collaborating with Sizzla is significant, contributing to Jesse Royal\u2019s Grammy-nominated <strong><em>\u2018Royal\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is pride of place for Dretegs, who described that 2021 nod as \u201ca major milestone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising producer Dretegs has teamed with Sizzla for \u2018So In Love\u2019, a yearning ballad that was released on June 20 by his Dretegs Music Jams label. The song is the first single from recording sessions that took place early this year. Although it was the first time the two were working together, Dretegs said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10912","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\/10912","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=10912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10913,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions\/10913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}