{"id":11097,"date":"2025-08-01T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11097"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:56:23","slug":"new-album-from-hopeton-lindo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11097","title":{"rendered":"New Album from Hopeton Lindo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2018This Song\u2019s for You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, the latest album from singer\/songwriter\/producer Hopeton Lindo, was released on July 18 by Zojak Worldwide.\u00a0Lindo, who produced six of its 10 tracks for his Irie Pen Records, says they were inspired by the lovers rock genre he was raised on in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been in the making for a while, but I was focusing on completing some other projects for my Irie Pen team first. I just felt now is the time to drop my first solo lovers rock album, especially for the ladies who are a major part of my fan base,\u201d Lindo explained.<\/p>\n<p>There are several previously released songs on <strong><em>\u2018This Song\u2019s for You\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>including <strong><em>\u2018Silent Consent\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Favorite Girl\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Hot Number\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Good Woman\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. <strong><em>\u2018Hot Number\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is one of three songs produced by Willie Lindo for Heavybeat Records.\u00a0 <strong><em>\u2018Magnet\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, another track on the album, is co-produced by Lindo and Syl Gordon of CellBlock Records. <strong><em>\u2018A House Is Not a Home\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which features Marcia Griffiths, is another joint production with Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my idea to record this classic with Marcia. I\u2019ve done songs with her before and it\u2019s always an honor to sing with the Queen; this is our first cover song and it\u2019s extra special,\u201d said Lindo. \u201cThe original drew my attention and I\u2019m glad we got the opportunity to put our touch on this reggae version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindo\u2019s hit songs as a singer include <strong><em>\u2018Territory\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Lonely Night\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, while he co-wrote <strong><em>\u2018Telephone Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong> for JC Lodge, <strong><em>\u2018Mr. Loverman\u2019<\/em><\/strong> for Shabba Ranks and <strong><em>\u2018Red Rose for Gregory\u2019<\/em><\/strong> for Gregory Isaacs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018This Song\u2019s for You\u2019, the latest album from singer\/songwriter\/producer Hopeton Lindo, was released on July 18 by Zojak Worldwide.\u00a0Lindo, who produced six of its 10 tracks for his Irie Pen Records, says they were inspired by the lovers rock genre he was raised on in Jamaica. The project is a long time coming. \u201cIt\u2019s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11097","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\/11097","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=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11098,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions\/11098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}