{"id":10980,"date":"2025-07-11T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:17:08","slug":"lion-face-roars-with-the-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10980","title":{"rendered":"Lion Face Roars with The Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Face, who made his name as a sound system selector in New York\u2019s competitive dancehall scene, released his latest \u2018riddim\u2019 in late June. It is called <strong><em>\u2018The Signal\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and contains five songs by artists with whom he has previously worked.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Signal\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by JC Lodge is the lead single. It was also released last month. <strong><em>\u2018Feel So Alive\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Sean Paul and Maxi Priest, <strong><em>\u2018Pressure\u2019<\/em><\/strong> from Morgan Heritage, <strong><em>\u2018I Can Dream About You\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Luciano and <strong><em>\u2018Anger N Wrath\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Quan Dajai, are the other songs on The Signal.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinidad-born Lion Face had a big hit four years ago with Lodge. <strong><em>\u2018Over\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which she recorded on his <strong><em>\u2018Divorce Court riddim,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> did well throughout South Florida and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong><em>\u2018The Signal,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> Lion Face said he went back to basics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Signal riddim is a nice One Drop, lovers rock style, sweet reggae music that I have come to appreciate. In my experience, reggae sells more than dancehall, it has more longevity than dancehall,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Doing the sound system rounds in the Big Apple during the 1980s and 1990s prepared Lion Face for a career in production. He made his debut in 1999 with the <strong><em>\u2018Unleaded riddim,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which had songs by Sean Paul, Lady Saw, Capleton and Determine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Face, who made his name as a sound system selector in New York\u2019s competitive dancehall scene, released his latest \u2018riddim\u2019 in late June. It is called \u2018The Signal\u2019 and contains five songs by artists with whom he has previously worked. \u2018Signal\u2019 by JC Lodge is the lead single. It was also released last month. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","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\/10980","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=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}