{"id":1859,"date":"2021-08-12T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2021-08-12T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:34:19","slug":"lincoln-sugar-minott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln \u2018Sugar Minott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working as a selector on the\u00a0<i>Sound of Silence Keystone<\/i>\u00a0sound system, and then his own\u00a0<i>Gathering of Youth<\/i>\u00a0system, he began his singing career as part of\u00a0The African Brothers\u00a0in 1969, along with\u00a0Tony Tuff\u00a0and Derrick Howard.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_4-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0The group released several singles in the first half of the 1970s on labels such as Micron and their own Ital label, and were an early example of the\u00a0Rastafari movement&#8217;s influence on the\u00a0Jamaican music\u00a0scene, taking a clear lead from\u00a0<a title=\"The Abyssinians\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Abyssinians\">The Abyssinians<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Barrow_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0After recording &#8220;Mysterious Nature&#8221; for producer\u00a0Rupie Edwards, the group recorded 1974&#8217;s &#8220;No Cup No Broke&#8221; for\u00a0Studio One, breaking up shortly after.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_4-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Minott then teamed up with the producer\u00a0<a title=\"Coxsone Dodd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coxsone_Dodd\">Clement &#8220;Coxsone&#8221; Dodd<\/a>, as studio apprentice at Dodd&#8217;s Studio One, working as a singer, guitarist and percussionist, and soon began recording his own singles.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_4-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Minott developed a talent for writing new songs to fit over existing rhythms (which at the time was common when singers performed live, but rare in the studio), often proving more popular than the original songs, pioneering an approach that would be central to the emerging\u00a0<a title=\"Dancehall\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dancehall\">dancehall<\/a>\u00a0style.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Peru_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_4-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Gleaner_5-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sugar_Minott\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working as a selector on the\u00a0Sound of Silence Keystone\u00a0sound system, and then his own\u00a0Gathering of Youth\u00a0system, he began his singing career as part of\u00a0The African Brothers\u00a0in 1969, along with\u00a0Tony Tuff\u00a0and Derrick Howard.\u00a0The group released several singles in the first half of the 1970s on labels such as Micron and their own Ital label, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1859","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\/1859","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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}