{"id":2889,"date":"2022-02-11T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2022-02-11T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T21:40:00","slug":"maxi-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Maxi Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Max Alfred &#8220;Maxi&#8221; Elliott<\/b>\u00a0(born 10 June 1961), known by his stage name\u00a0<b>Maxi Priest<\/b>, is a British\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Vocalist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vocalist\">vocalist<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an\u00a0<a title=\"Contemporary R&amp;B\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contemporary_R%26B\">R&amp;B<\/a>\u00a0influence, otherwise known as\u00a0reggae fusion. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all time.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Maxi Priest was born in\u00a0<a title=\"Lewisham\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewisham\">Lewisham<\/a>, London, the second youngest of nine brothers and sisters. His parents had moved to England from Jamaica to provide more opportunity for their family and he grew up listening to\u00a0gospel,\u00a0reggae,\u00a0R&amp;B, and\u00a0pop music. He first learned to sing in church, encouraged by his mother, who was a\u00a0Pentecostal\u00a0missionary. Maxi grew up listening to Jamaican greats such as\u00a0<a title=\"Dennis Brown\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Brown\">Dennis Brown<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"John Holt (singer)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Holt_(singer)\">John Holt<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Ken Boothe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Boothe\">Ken Boothe<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Gregory Isaacs\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory_Isaacs\">Gregory Isaacs<\/a>\u00a0as well as singers like\u00a0<a title=\"Marvin Gaye\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marvin_Gaye\">Marvin Gaye<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Al Green\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Green\">Al Green<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"The Beatles\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\">the Beatles<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Phil Collins\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Collins\">Phil Collins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Frank Sinatra\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Sinatra\">Frank Sinatra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maxi_Priest\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Alfred &#8220;Maxi&#8221; Elliott\u00a0(born 10 June 1961), known by his stage name\u00a0Maxi Priest, is a British\u00a0reggae\u00a0vocalist\u00a0of\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an\u00a0R&amp;B\u00a0influence, otherwise known as\u00a0reggae fusion. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2889","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\/2889","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=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}