{"id":1393,"date":"2021-05-28T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2021-05-28T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:26:14","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-jon-fx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"The gospel according to Jon FX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his career, Jon FX has helped guide artists from different genres to success as a musician and producer. This year, he made the transition to performer on a contemporary gospel song.<\/p>\n<p>That song is <strong><em>Another Level Remix<\/em><\/strong> which he produced for Guyanese gospel singer, Renwick Duesbury. Jon FX is also featured on the single which entered Billboard Magazine\u2019s Gospel Digital Song Sales Chart last week.<\/p>\n<p>The London-born Duesbury originally recorded <strong><em>Another Level<\/em><\/strong> with Jamaican gospel deejay Prodigal Son, last year. After meeting Jon FX at his (Jon FX\u2019s) mother\u2019s church in Brooklyn, New York they agreed to record a remix.<\/p>\n<p>For South Florida-based Jon FX, who has worked with rapper XXXtentacion and dancehall singer Gyptian, the change of pace excited him. \u201cIt is a refreshing sense of security to know that the sounds can transcend into different audiences,\u2019 he said, adding that \u201cremixes over the years has taught me that to do a \u2018refix\u2019 is an opportunity to introduce the song to another audience, hopefully a larger one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Kingston, Jon FX developed his talent playing multiple instruments in his family\u2019s church band. As a teenager, he played recording sessions at the east Kingston recording studio of producer Everton \u201cCaveman\u201d Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Migrating to New York, he worked on remixes for acts like Barrington Levy and Sister Carol. In Florida, Jon FX\u2019s career took off as a producer\/remixer with the platinum selling XXXtentacion and Gyptian whose 2010 hit song, <strong><em>Hold Yuh<\/em><\/strong>, he produced. Jon FX believes his production skills have improved considerably in the past five years. \u201cI must admit, I used to be a beat-maker\/ musician, \u2018work-for-hire\u00a0for 15 years. But now, I\u2019ve evolved into a producer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his career, Jon FX has helped guide artists from different genres to success as a musician and producer. This year, he made the transition to performer on a contemporary gospel song. That song is Another Level Remix which he produced for Guyanese gospel singer, Renwick Duesbury. Jon FX is also featured on the single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","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\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}