Garnet Silk, the inspirational singer who died in December 1994, has been awarded the Order of Distinction, Jamaica\u2019s sixth-highest honor. His family will receive the badge during the National Honors and Awards in Kingston in October.\u00a0 Silk, who was 28, perished in a fire at his mother\u2019s home in Manchester parish, southern Jamaica. She also died in that incident.<\/p>\n
The Rastafarian artist, who was from Manchester, is known for culturally strong songs such as \u2018Lion Heart\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Zion in A Vision\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018It\u2019s Growing\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Love Is the Answer\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Those are some of the singles that helped revive roots content in dancehall during the 1990s, when other Rastafarian acts like Tony Rebel, Everton Blender and Yasus Afari emerged.<\/p>\n Also receiving an OD (Officer Class) is Cleveland \u201cClevie\u201d Browne, best known as a member of the production duo, Steely and Clevie. They produced some of the biggest dancehall songs of the 1980s and 1990s including \u2018Sweet Reggae Music\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Nitty Gritty, \u2018You Don\u2019t Love Me (No, No, No\u2019)<\/em><\/strong> by Dawn Penn and Garnet Silk\u2019s \u2018Love Is the Answer\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Legendary producer, Lloyd \u201cKing Jammy\u201d James, was awarded the OD (Commander Class), an upgrade from the Officer Class he received in 2007. James produced countless hit singles from his recording studio in Waterhouse, Kingston including \u2018Under mi Sleng Teng\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>by Wayne Smith, \u2018Big Belly Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Admiral Bailey, \u2018Bandelero\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Pinchers and \u2018Buddy Bye\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Johnny Osbourne.<\/p>\n Etana and gospel singer Kevin Downswell will also receive the OD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garnet Silk, the inspirational singer who died in December 1994, has been awarded the Order of Distinction, Jamaica\u2019s sixth-highest honor. His family will receive the badge during the National Honors and Awards in Kingston in October.\u00a0 Silk, who was 28, perished in a fire at his mother\u2019s home in Manchester parish, southern Jamaica. She also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11137","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\/11137","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=11137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11138,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11137\/revisions\/11138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}