{"id":12360,"date":"2026-04-03T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:52:44","slug":"dennis-bovell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=12360","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Bovell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dennis Bovell<\/b>\u00a0<span class=\"nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks\">MBE<\/span>\u00a0(born 22 May 1953) is a\u00a0Barbados-born\u00a0reggae\u00a0guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a\u00a0progressive rock\u00a0group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British reggae band\u00a0Matumbi, and released\u00a0dub-reggae\u00a0records under his own name as well as the pseudonym\u00a0<b>Blackbeard.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Bovell\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Bovell\u00a0MBE\u00a0(born 22 May 1953) is a\u00a0Barbados-born\u00a0reggae\u00a0guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a\u00a0progressive rock\u00a0group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British reggae band\u00a0Matumbi, and released\u00a0dub-reggae\u00a0records under his own name as well as the pseudonym\u00a0Blackbeard. Read More&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-12360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-stars","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360","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=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12361,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions\/12361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}