{"id":11400,"date":"2025-10-03T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:14:25","slug":"blessed-times-for-kenne-blessin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11400","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Times for Kenne Blessin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having released his second album in February, singer\/producer Kenne Blessin returns with two new projects. They are a cover of Elton John\u2019s \u2018Nikita\u2019 and \u2018Blue Flame Riddim\u2019, a four-song EP, both released in September.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Atlanta-based artist, he was introduced to \u2018Nikita\u2019 by \u201calways listening to the classics.\u201d He put a reggae spin on the song which was a big hit for Elton John in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>For \u2018Blue Flame Riddim\u2019, he contributed \u2018God is My Strength\u2019. He co-produced the EP for his Dacosta Music with Malvo Ent, a company owned by singer Anthony Malvo.<\/p>\n<p>Malvo, best known for the 1987 hit single \u2018Come Back to Me\u2019 (with Tiger) contributes \u2018Watch da Girl Deh\u2019 to the \u2018Blue Flame Riddim\u2019. \u2018How I\u2019m Living\u2019 by veteran singjay Delly Ranx and \u2018Big Man Cry\u2019 by Antiguan Fucha Kid, are the other songs on the EP.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kingston and raised in St. Thomas parish, eastern Jamaica, Kenne Blessin released his second album, \u2018Caught my Attention\u2019, seven months ago. \u2018Get Up &amp; Go\u2019, his first album, came out in 2018. \u2018Millions\u2019, his solo EP, was released in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having released his second album in February, singer\/producer Kenne Blessin returns with two new projects. They are a cover of Elton John\u2019s \u2018Nikita\u2019 and \u2018Blue Flame Riddim\u2019, a four-song EP, both released in September. According to the Atlanta-based artist, he was introduced to \u2018Nikita\u2019 by \u201calways listening to the classics.\u201d He put a reggae spin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11400","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\/11400","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=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}