When it comes to promoting a new song or album, Wayne Wonder knows the importance of getting out and pressing the flesh. That was the rule back in the 1980s when his career started.<\/p>\n
The wiry singer has several new songs on the market including \u2018Tuff Times\u2019<\/em><\/strong> with Mister G and \u2018Party All Night Long\u2019<\/em><\/strong> with Frankie Sly.\u00a0 \u201cYou have a lot more songs out there with the potential, but the artistes never physically promote the songs in America for it to take off the right way. They have to do the grind and go through the channel them and go through the playbook,\u201d Wonder explained.<\/p>\n Twenty years ago, he was required to put in the work to make \u2018No Letting Go\u2019<\/em><\/strong> a hit. That song, produced by Steven \u201cLenky\u201d Mardsen on the Diwali \u2018riddim\u2019, peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n \u2018No Letting Go\u2019<\/em><\/strong> remains the east Kingston-raised artist\u2019s biggest commercial success. It was one of the hits driven by the catchy Diwali, others being \u2018Sufferer\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Bounty Killer, \u2018Overcome\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Wayne Marshall and Sean Paul\u2019s \u2018Get Busy\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Wonder said he was brought into the project by Marsden, a keyboardist and member of Sly and Robbie\u2019s Taxi Gang. They recorded \u2018No Letting Go\u2019<\/em><\/strong> in 2002 but it did not take off in the United States until the following year.<\/p>\n Wayne Wonder is among the artists scheduled to perform on Reggae Sumfest on July 23 in a segment saluting the impact of producer Dave Kelly\u2019s Madhouse Records. That label produced some of the biggest riddims of the 1990s such as the \u2018Pepperseed\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Joyride\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to promoting a new song or album, Wayne Wonder knows the importance of getting out and pressing the flesh. That was the rule back in the 1980s when his career started. The wiry singer has several new songs on the market including \u2018Tuff Times\u2019 with Mister G and \u2018Party All Night Long\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","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\/3476","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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}