One of dancehall music\u2019s true veterans, Tony Curtis knows a hit \u2018riddim\u2019 when he hears one. That\u2019s the feeling he got when music producer Junior Brown played him the beat for The Redemption Project last year.<\/p>\n
Curtis\u2019 \u2018Power of Fear\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>is one of 10 songs on that compilation album, which was released in October by Brown\u2019s Nuh Rush Records. \u201cRiddim talk to mi, it play inna mi ears. Whenever mi hear a riddim, it talk to mi\u2026I don\u2019t know how, but it talk to mi,\u201d said Curtis. \u201cI never have a problem making hit songs\u2026jus\u2019 gimme di riddim.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Power of Fear\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is a hard-hitting song that appeals for black men to take a stand in a world he is seemingly under fire from law enforcement and legislators. Curtis points to police-related incidents like what took place in Minneapolis with George Floyd two years ago, as an example. \u201cThat affected us all in a negative way,\u201d he said of the tragedy that saw Floyd murdered by a white police officer.<\/p>\n Tony Curtis has enjoyed considerable solo success and with LUST, a harmony quartet that also includes Lukie D, Singing Melody and Thriller U. His solo hits include covers of George Michael\u2019s \u2018Faith\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. and \u2018Love Should Have Brought You Home\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, originally done by Toni Braxton. With LUST, Curtis has made the charts with \u2018Just as I Am\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Sweetness of Your Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Redemption Project also has songs by Nature Ellis, Queen Ifrica, Lutan Fyah and Kananga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of dancehall music\u2019s true veterans, Tony Curtis knows a hit \u2018riddim\u2019 when he hears one. That\u2019s the feeling he got when music producer Junior Brown played him the beat for The Redemption Project last year. Curtis\u2019 \u2018Power of Fear\u2019 is one of 10 songs on that compilation album, which was released in October by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","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\/2923","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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}