{"id":1325,"date":"2021-05-12T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2021-05-13T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T00:04:37","slug":"phyllis-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Phyllis Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon was born in 1944 in\u00a0Linstead,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Catherine_Parish,_Jamaica\">St. Catherine<\/a>, Jamaica, and attended the Linstead Primary School.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Influenced by American singers\u00a0<a title=\"Connie Francis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connie_Francis\">Connie Francis<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Patti Page\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patti_Page\">Patti Page<\/a>\u00a0(citation needed) and\u00a0<a title=\"Dionne Warwick\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dionne_Warwick\">Dionne Warwick<\/a>, she began singing in talent contests. It was during a performance at the Glass Bucket Club in\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston, Jamaica<\/a>\u00a0with the group The Vulcans, that Duke Reid&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Session musician\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Session_musician\">session<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Guitarist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guitarist\">guitarist<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Lynn Taitt\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynn_Taitt\">Lynn Taitt<\/a>\u00a0discovered Dillon.<sup id=\"cite_ref-amg_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phyllis_Dillon\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon was born in 1944 in\u00a0Linstead,\u00a0St. Catherine, Jamaica, and attended the Linstead Primary School.\u00a0Influenced by American singers\u00a0Connie Francis,\u00a0Patti Page\u00a0(citation needed) and\u00a0Dionne Warwick, she began singing in talent contests. It was during a performance at the Glass Bucket Club in\u00a0Kingston, Jamaica\u00a0with the group The Vulcans, that Duke Reid&#8217;s\u00a0session\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Lynn Taitt\u00a0discovered Dillon. Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}