{"id":3178,"date":"2022-03-31T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2022-03-31T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T22:45:26","slug":"mighty-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<b>Mighty Diamonds<\/b>\u00a0were a Jamaican harmony trio, recording\u00a0<a title=\"Roots reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roots_reggae\">roots reggae<\/a>\u00a0with a strong\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Rastafari movement\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rastafari_movement\">Rastafarian<\/a>\u00a0influence. The group was formed in 1969 and remained together as of 2012. They are best known for their 1976 debut album\u00a0<i><a title=\"Right Time\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Right_Time\">Right Time<\/a><\/i>\u00a0produced by\u00a0<a title=\"Joseph Hoo Kim\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Hoo_Kim\">Joseph Hoo Kim<\/a>\u00a0and the 1979 release\u00a0<i>Deeper Roots<\/i>. On March 29, 2022, their lead singer, Donald &#8220;Tabby&#8221; Shaw, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1969 in the\u00a0<a title=\"Trenchtown\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trenchtown\">Trenchtown<\/a>\u00a0area of\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston<\/a>, the group comprises lead vocalist Donald &#8220;Tabby&#8221; Shaw, and harmony vocalists Fitzroy &#8220;Bunny&#8221; Simpson and Lloyd &#8220;Judge&#8221; Ferguson.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Huey_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> They had become friends at school in the mid-1960s, and were originally called The Limelight, adopting &#8216;Mighty Diamonds&#8217; after Shaw&#8217;s mother started referring to them as &#8220;the diamonds&#8221;.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-Kenner_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Taylor_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Their smooth harmonies and choreographed stage show were inspired by\u00a0<a title=\"Motown\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motown\">Motown<\/a>\u00a0vocal groups of the 1960s, with Shaw listing\u00a0<a title=\"The Temptations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Temptations\">The Temptations<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"The Stylistics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Stylistics\">The Stylistics<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"The Impressions\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Impressions\">The Impressions<\/a>, and\u00a0The Delfonics\u00a0as influences as well as Jamaican\u00a0<a title=\"Rocksteady\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocksteady\">rocksteady<\/a>\u00a0artists such as\u00a0John Holt\u00a0and\u00a0Ken Boothe.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Huey_4-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Kenner_5-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Taylor_6-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mighty_Diamonds\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Mighty Diamonds\u00a0were a Jamaican harmony trio, recording\u00a0roots reggae\u00a0with a strong\u00a0Rastafarian\u00a0influence. The group was formed in 1969 and remained together as of 2012. They are best known for their 1976 debut album\u00a0Right Time\u00a0produced by\u00a0Joseph Hoo Kim\u00a0and the 1979 release\u00a0Deeper Roots. On March 29, 2022, their lead singer, Donald &#8220;Tabby&#8221; Shaw, was shot dead in a drive-by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-3178","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\/3178","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=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}