{"id":11684,"date":"2025-11-22T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:20:33","slug":"a-j-brown-goes-to-the-dancehall-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11684","title":{"rendered":"A J Brown Goes to the Dancehall Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong><em>\u2018Dancehall Ball\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his latest song, A J Brown goes lovers rock, arguably the most popular of reggae\u2019s offshoots. Produced by Danny Breakenridge for South Florida-based Upstairs Music, the single was released on November 13.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who is lead vocalist for the Grammy-nominated Third World band, was approached by Breakenridge to do justice to the song which Breakenridge also wrote.\u00a0 He liked what he heard and channeled one of lovers rock&#8217;s greatest exponents for \u2018Dancehall Ball\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to the track and lyrics\u2026They felt balanced like a complete narrative. I drew on the lover\u2019s rock era of reggae with an essence of Dennis Brown,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n<p>This is his latest collaboration with Upstairs Music, having previously collaborated with Breakenridge on a cover of Louis Armstrong\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Wonderful World\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Montego Bay, A J Brown developed his skill as a live act in that city\u2019s tourist hotels. Prior to joining Third World in 2014, he had hit songs with <strong><em>\u2018When You Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Love People\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Father and Friend\u2019. \u2018Shots Of Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his fifth solo album, was released in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-instrumentalist Paul Gauntlet created the music for <strong><em>\u2018Dancehall Ball\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. He is accompanied by Yishka on saxophone, Sons of Mystro on violins, and Tafina Wilson who does harmony.\u00a0 The song was mixed and mastered by the Heavybeat Crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On \u2018Dancehall Ball\u2019, his latest song, A J Brown goes lovers rock, arguably the most popular of reggae\u2019s offshoots. Produced by Danny Breakenridge for South Florida-based Upstairs Music, the single was released on November 13. Brown, who is lead vocalist for the Grammy-nominated Third World band, was approached by Breakenridge to do justice to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-11684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684","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=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11685,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions\/11685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}