Dennis Brown may be the most-covered reggae artist. With such an extensive catalog of lover\u2019s rock and roots music, that would come as no surprise.<\/p>\n
Dona-V is among the Crown Prince of Reggae\u2019s countless fans. He pays homage to the singer with a cover of \u2018Make it Easy on Yourself\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which he does as My Brethren.<\/p>\n The self-produced single was released in 2021 and is part of \u2018Any Means Necessary\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Dona-V\u2019s second album which was recently released.\u00a0 \u201cI put a lot of my own feelings in the song and as a result, produced a slight twist from the original,\u201d said Dona-V, who is based in New York City.<\/p>\n \u2018Any Means Necessary\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was released 22 years after his debut, \u2018A Cry for Tomorrow\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was produced by the legendary Clement \u201cCoxson\u201d Dodd for his Studio One label. It contains songs like the title, which is a collaboration with Sizzla, as well as \u2018Don\u2019t Turn Away\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>which features Luciano.\u00a0 Those songs are produced by Patrick Henry.\u00a0 Dona-V also puts a reggae spin on Otis Redding\u2019s \u2018Dock of The Bay\u2019.<\/p>\n Originally from Manchester parish in Jamaica, Dona-V has been recording songs since the mid-1980s. It was not until 1990 that his first song was released, and he has since done singles for several New York producers including Phillip Smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dennis Brown may be the most-covered reggae artist. With such an extensive catalog of lover\u2019s rock and roots music, that would come as no surprise. Dona-V is among the Crown Prince of Reggae\u2019s countless fans. He pays homage to the singer with a cover of \u2018Make it Easy on Yourself\u2019 which he does as My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","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\/3195","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=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}