{"id":1137,"date":"2021-04-15T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T08:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2021-04-15T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T08:12:22","slug":"marcia-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in West\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston, Jamaica<\/a>, Griffiths started her career in 1964, performing on stage with\u00a0<a title=\"Byron Lee and the Dragonaires\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Byron_Lee_and_the_Dragonaires\">Byron Lee and the Dragonaires<\/a>\u00a0at the behest of Phillip James of\u00a0<a title=\"The Blues Busters\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blues_Busters\">The Blues Busters<\/a>, who had heard her singing in her home neighbourhood. <sup id=\"cite_ref-Cambliv_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner1401_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Her performance was sufficiently impressive that the following day\u00a0<a title=\"Ronnie Nasralla\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronnie_Nasralla\">Ronnie Nasralla<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Clement Dodd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clement_Dodd\">Clement Dodd<\/a> both offered her recording contracts. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcia_Griffiths\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in West\u00a0Kingston, Jamaica, Griffiths started her career in 1964, performing on stage with\u00a0Byron Lee and the Dragonaires\u00a0at the behest of Phillip James of\u00a0The Blues Busters, who had heard her singing in her home neighbourhood. Her performance was sufficiently impressive that the following day\u00a0Ronnie Nasralla\u00a0and\u00a0Clement Dodd both offered her recording contracts. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}