{"id":3410,"date":"2022-05-13T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T10:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2022-05-13T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T10:45:28","slug":"the-rise-of-kava-jah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Kava Jah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roots singer Kava Jah has made a name in his adopted hometown of Santa Cruz, California. He\u2019s looking to spread his wings with <strong><em>\u2018Rise Above\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his EP, released in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Rise Above\u2019<\/em><\/strong> has six songs, which are co-written by Kava Jah and Michael Johnson, an American multi-instrumentalist who also produced the mini set.<\/p>\n<p>The Rastafarian artist, who is from Clarendon parish in central Jamaica, said he and Johnson took advantage of the Covid-19 lockdowns to write and record songs.\u00a0 \u201cThis EP, I really put in a lot of energy in terms of lyrical and musical. I did it with my own band; we started before the pandemic and continued during it and recorded a full album and decided we jus\u2019 gonna release an EP first,\u201d Kava Jah explained.\u00a0 <strong><em>\u2018Rise Above\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is his second EP. The first was a self-titled project that came out five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kava Jah began recording 20 years ago in Jamaica for producer Paul \u201cComputer Paul\u201d Henton. He then hooked-up with the Gumption Band for whom he recorded a handful of singles.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, he moved to the United States with Gumption which evolved into the I-Kronik Band with him as lead singer. After four years, Kava Jah went solo and lay down roots in Santa Cruz which has one of the strongest roots-reggae communities in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>A number of established musicians played on <strong><em>\u2018Rise Above\u2019<\/em><\/strong> including drummers Kirk Bennett (formerly of Beres Hammond&#8217;s Harmony House band) and Deleon &#8220;Jubba&#8221; White (of the Dubtonic Kru) and Bowie McLaughlin, former keyboardist with Grammy winners, Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roots singer Kava Jah has made a name in his adopted hometown of Santa Cruz, California. He\u2019s looking to spread his wings with \u2018Rise Above\u2019, his EP, released in March. \u2018Rise Above\u2019 has six songs, which are co-written by Kava Jah and Michael Johnson, an American multi-instrumentalist who also produced the mini set. The Rastafarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","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\/3410","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=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}