{"id":1212,"date":"2021-04-30T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T11:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2021-04-30T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:38:18","slug":"roughhouse-makes-music-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Roughhouse makes music from the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the son of a versatile musician, singer Roughhouse learned early in life to appreciate different genres. He also brings a diverse creativity to his reggae productions<em>. Heart to Heart<\/em>, his latest song, is a lovers rock ballad. Released April 23 by his MPerium Records, it is the dreadlocked artist&#8217;s third single for 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am comfortable doing what the inspiration wants me to do at the moment. It depends on the topic of the song, I try to create the perfect soundtrack to complement the story,&#8221; explained Roughhouse, who is based in Dortmund, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Heart to Heart has a similar theme to\u00a0<em>Rest Well in my Arms<\/em> and <em>In Love Again<\/em>, rocking roots-reggae tracks Roughhouse released in February and March. However, over the years he has proved just as adept producing roots-reggae, which is evident on his five solo albums.<\/p>\n<p>MPerium Records&#8217; productions carry a distinct live sound which Roughhouse has patented at his studio in Dortmund, a city he has lived since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>He adopted a passion for music from his father, Keith Powell Senior, who played the live show circuit in Jamaica for many years. He also toured with Dennis Brown and Bunny Wailer.<\/p>\n<p>Roughhouse cut his teeth as a musician on Jamaica&#8217;s tourist scene before relocating to Germany where he has established himself as a singer, musician and producer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have grown over the years in a very positive and professional way, from learning and working with some of the best in the music industry,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Also, from all my mistakes I learnt so much, like how to keep a group of musicians together in one harmony. It&#8217;s important to keep a great family vibe on the road touring, which can sometime just go crazy. So over the years I mastered keeping the musical family close.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the son of a versatile musician, singer Roughhouse learned early in life to appreciate different genres. He also brings a diverse creativity to his reggae productions. Heart to Heart, his latest song, is a lovers rock ballad. Released April 23 by his MPerium Records, it is the dreadlocked artist&#8217;s third single for 2021. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","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\/1212","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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}