{"id":1428,"date":"2021-06-03T23:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2021-06-03T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:51:57","slug":"dennis-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dennis Emmanuel Brown\u00a0CD<\/b>\u00a0(1 February 1957 \u2013 1 July 1999) was a\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaican<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he\u00a0<a title=\"Sound recording and reproduction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sound_recording_and_reproduction\">recorded<\/a>\u00a0more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of\u00a0<a title=\"Lovers rock\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lovers_rock\">lovers rock<\/a>, a subgenre of\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>.\u00a0<a title=\"Bob Marley\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Marley\">Bob Marley<\/a> cited Brown as his favorite singer,<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0dubbing him &#8220;The Crown Prince of Reggae&#8221;, and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson43_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Adebayo_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Brown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Emmanuel Brown\u00a0CD\u00a0(1 February 1957 \u2013 1 July 1999) was a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he\u00a0recorded\u00a0more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of\u00a0lovers rock, a subgenre of\u00a0reggae.\u00a0Bob Marley cited Brown as his favorite singer,\u00a0dubbing him &#8220;The Crown Prince of Reggae&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1428","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\/1428","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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}