{"id":2162,"date":"2021-09-30T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:26:11","slug":"duke-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"Duke Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Arthur &#8220;Duke&#8221; Reid<\/b>\u00a0CD\u00a0(21 July 1915 \u2013 1 January 1975) was a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0record producer,\u00a0DJ\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Record label\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_label\">label<\/a>\u00a0owner.<\/p>\n<p>He ran one of the most popular\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Reggae sound system\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae_sound_system\">sound systems<\/a>\u00a0of the 1950s called\u00a0<b>Reid&#8217;s Sound System<\/b>, whilst Duke himself was known as\u00a0<b>The Trojan<\/b>\u00a0possibly named after the British-made trucks used to transport the equipment. In the 1960s, Reid founded record label Treasure Isle, named after his liquor store, that produced\u00a0<a title=\"Ska\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ska\">ska<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Rocksteady\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocksteady\">rocksteady<\/a>\u00a0music.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Music_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He was still active in the early 1970s, working with\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Deejay (Jamaican)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deejay_(Jamaican)\">toaster<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"U-Roy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U-Roy\">U-Roy<\/a>. He died in early 1975 after having suffered from a severe illness for the last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_Reid\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur &#8220;Duke&#8221; Reid\u00a0CD\u00a0(21 July 1915 \u2013 1 January 1975) was a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0record producer,\u00a0DJ\u00a0and\u00a0label\u00a0owner. He ran one of the most popular\u00a0sound systems\u00a0of the 1950s called\u00a0Reid&#8217;s Sound System, whilst Duke himself was known as\u00a0The Trojan\u00a0possibly named after the British-made trucks used to transport the equipment. In the 1960s, Reid founded record label Treasure Isle, named after his liquor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2162","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\/2162","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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}