{"id":3482,"date":"2022-05-20T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2022-05-20T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:41:56","slug":"morgan-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Morgan Heritage<\/b>\u00a0is a Grammy-winning\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaican<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0band formed in 1994 by five children of reggae artist\u00a0Denroy Morgan, namely Peter &#8220;Peetah&#8221; Morgan, Una Morgan,\u00a0<a title=\"Gramps Morgan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gramps_Morgan\">Roy &#8220;Gramps&#8221; Morgan<\/a>, Nakhamyah &#8220;Lukes&#8221; Morgan, and Memmalatel &#8220;Mr. Mojo&#8221; Morgan.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2015_Album_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0They have toured internationally and released a number of reggae albums.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Heritage, formed in 1994, made their FIRST appearance at\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae Sunsplash\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae_Sunsplash\">Reggae Sunsplash<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>. They were subsequently signed by\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Music Corporation of America\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_Corporation_of_America\">MCA<\/a>\u00a0and released their debut album\u00a0<i>Miracles<\/i>\u00a0the same year. This album was more\u00a0<a title=\"Pop music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_music\">pop<\/a>-influenced than their later work.<\/p>\n<p>After the release of\u00a0<i>Miracles<\/i>, the family moved to Denroy&#8217;s homeland of Jamaica. In this period, three family members left the group. Once in Jamaica, Morgan Heritage began working with reggae producers\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Robert Dixon (musician)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Dixon_(musician)\">Bobby Dixon<\/a>\u00a0and Lloyd James, resulting in the release of their second album\u00a0<i>Protect Us Jah<\/i>\u00a0(1997), followed by\u00a0<i>One Calling<\/i>\u00a0(1998), and the spiritually-inclined\u00a0<i>Don&#8217;t Haffi Dread<\/i>\u00a0(1999). They released three compilation albums by &#8220;The Morgan Heritage Family and Friends&#8221;, and a live album,\u00a0<i>Live in Europe!<\/i>, recorded on their 2000 tour. Following the release of their 2001 album\u00a0<i>More Teachings&#8230;<\/i>\u00a0Morgan Heritage toured Europe again, and they later returned several times. Also in 2001 they took part in the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Vans Warped Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vans_Warped_Tour\">Vans Warped Tour<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morgan_Heritage\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Heritage\u00a0is a Grammy-winning\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0band formed in 1994 by five children of reggae artist\u00a0Denroy Morgan, namely Peter &#8220;Peetah&#8221; Morgan, Una Morgan,\u00a0Roy &#8220;Gramps&#8221; Morgan, Nakhamyah &#8220;Lukes&#8221; Morgan, and Memmalatel &#8220;Mr. Mojo&#8221; Morgan.\u00a0They have toured internationally and released a number of reggae albums. Morgan Heritage, formed in 1994, made their FIRST appearance at\u00a0Reggae Sunsplash\u00a0in\u00a0Jamaica. They were subsequently signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-3482","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\/3482","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=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}