{"id":2438,"date":"2021-11-19T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:20:07","slug":"the-word-is-love-from-kashief-lindo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"The word is love from Kashief Lindo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago, when Kashief Lindo recorded A Reggae Tribute to Michael Jackson, that album saluted one of his musical heroes. With <strong><em>\u2018Love On\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his latest album, the singer returns to his lover\u2019s rock reggae roots.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-song set has 12 originals, the exceptions being covers of James Brown\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Prisoner of Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Goodbye Now Forever\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a ska song made popular in Jamaica by The Clarendonians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really comfortable doing any genre, but yes, doing ballads is always enjoyable. That\u2019s the direction we decided to take before we even started working on the album,\u201d Lindo said prior to <strong><em>\u2018Love On\u2019s\u2019<\/em><\/strong> October 1 release.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019 refers to his father Willie Lindo who produced the album for their Heavy Beat Records, which has handled all Kashief\u2019s recordings since he began recording in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018She\u2019s The Kinda Girl\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Where Am I\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and the gentle title track are some of the many strong moments on <strong><em>\u2018Love On\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which has enjoyed solid rotation on Caribbean radio in the Lindo\u2019s home base of South Florida, as well as the tri-state area and parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Lindo, the mastermind behind Beres Hammond\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Tempted to Touch\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>and Dennis Brown\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Inseparable\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, believes Kashief is vocally strong throughout <strong><em>\u2018Love On\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cThere is never doubting his ability. People are telling us that there are so many good songs on this album, they don\u2019t know which one to play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago, when Kashief Lindo recorded A Reggae Tribute to Michael Jackson, that album saluted one of his musical heroes. With \u2018Love On\u2019, his latest album, the singer returns to his lover\u2019s rock reggae roots. The 14-song set has 12 originals, the exceptions being covers of James Brown\u2019s \u2018Prisoner of Love\u2019 and \u2018Goodbye Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","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\/2438","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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}