{"id":2138,"date":"2021-09-30T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2021-10-08T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:39:11","slug":"jimmy-reid-still-making-hits-after-six-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Reid Still Making Hits After Six Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After 60 years of making great music, veteran reggae artist Jimmy Reid is set to release his eighth album this coming December. The album titled\u00a0Lovers Rock<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0will feature remakes of 12 classics from yesteryear. Jimmy is presently working with producer Osborne \u2018Ifield\u2019 Joseph putting the final touches on what he calls the album for lovers. \u201cI have always wanted to do an album of this nature, remaking R & B and soul songs from the past. Songs that I love and knew I could make a classic reggae version,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As a child when Jimmy Reid received rave reviews for his vocal talent at school and church, I am sure he never realised that he was laying the foundation for a career as a singer and recording artist that would last sixty years and counting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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He started his singing career back in the late sixties. The little boy from Jackson, Sligoville, St Catherine, Jamaica, wanted to be a star so much he moved to West Kingston to live with his grandmother. It didn’t take him long to find Duke Reid’s studio one of the leading recording operations in Jamaica at the time. Like other artists, Jimmy use to hang out at Sunday auditions where he met people such as Eric Donaldson, Jimmy London, Max Romeo, Gregory Isaacs and the Cables. He then started a group with two friends and when that didn’t work out, he linked up with the Beltones and recorded a few songs with that group. He later Switched to the Cables and recorded a few songs with them as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1975 Jimmy migrated to Canada and formed a group called Jimmy Reid & The Rocking Moments. After recording\u00a0I’m so fed up,<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0he decided to go solo and released\u00a0Rest your love on me<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0which went number one on Toronto reggae charts and two follow-up singles\u00a0Open the door<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0My tears are falling<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0followed suit and went number one as well. His first album\u00a0Are you ready<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0was released in 1984, and his second album in 1986 was produced by Winston Richards with keyboard contribution by the late Jackie Mittoo. In 1984 he won his first Canadian Reggae Music Awards for best single and to date, he has won a total of 10 CRMA awards in different categories. He was also a nominee in the Best Reggae Recording category for the Juno Awards in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Jimmy Reid is known for his classic hits like\u00a0Memories<\/span><\/b><\/em>, African Beauty<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>and his album,\u00a0Naah Give Up.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/em>Over the years he has consistently appeared on most of the top reggae shows in Canada. He has shared the stage with stars and icons like Chalice, Lt. Stitchie, Gregory Isaacs, Lloyd Parks, Fab Five, Dennis Brown Beres Hammond, Luciano, Leroy Sibbles, L.U.S.T, Professor Nuts and Junior Reid to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jimmy Reid who has always gotten great support from his fans especially those in Canada, has no intention to stop performing and recording great music, he is looking forward to hitting the road to promote his new album as soon as it is released. \u201cAs long as the creator continues to bless me with health and strength and I can sing and record music for my fans, I will continue to do this,\u201d said the 77 years old singer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow and support Jimmy Reid on social media\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Facebook @jimmyreidmusic<\/span><\/p>\n

Instagram @jimmyreid<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 After 60 years of making great music, veteran reggae artist Jimmy Reid is set to release his eighth album this coming December. The album titled\u00a0Lovers Rock\u00a0will feature remakes of 12 classics from yesteryear. Jimmy is presently working with producer Osborne \u2018Ifield\u2019 Joseph putting the final touches on what he calls the album for lovers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}