{"id":11552,"date":"2025-10-31T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:23:18","slug":"happy-birthday-frankie-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11552","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Frankie Paul!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Frankie Paul\u2019s 60th birthday, VP Records have reissued <strong><em>\u2018Live And Love\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> the legendary dancehall singer\u2019s 1989 album. The 10-song set was released on October 24th, five days after his birth date.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2018Live and Love\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>was produced by Lloyd \u201cKing Jammy\u201d James. It has rockers like <strong><em>\u2018Be Mine Tonight\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Run Come\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and a cover of Robert Palmer\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Didn\u2019t Mean to Turn You On\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Queens, New York-based VP Records also released <strong><em>\u2018Alesha\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Country Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, two singles by the singer that were produced by George Phang and Sly and Robbie, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The album and songs were originally released during a fruitful period for the gifted Paul who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s with songs like <strong><em>\u2018I Know The Score\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>\u2018Cassanova\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>\u2018Worries in The Dance\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Sarah\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all his talent, the visually impaired vocalist suffered health challenges throughout his career, which led to his death in May, 2017 in Jamaica at age 51.<\/p>\n<p>Frankie Paul was among a wave of dancehall singers who thrived during dancehall\u2019s digital era. Others include Wayne Smith, Tenor Saw and Nitty Gritty, all of whom recorded for King Jammy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Frankie Paul\u2019s 60th birthday, VP Records have reissued \u2018Live And Love\u2019, the legendary dancehall singer\u2019s 1989 album. The 10-song set was released on October 24th, five days after his birth date. \u00a0\u2018Live and Love\u2019 was produced by Lloyd \u201cKing Jammy\u201d James. It has rockers like \u2018Be Mine Tonight\u2019, \u2018Run Come\u2019 and a cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11552","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\/11552","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=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}