{"id":3526,"date":"2022-05-27T14:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:25:43","slug":"silky-smooth-anthony-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"Silky-Smooth Anthony Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Cruz returns to his lover\u2019s rock roots with a cover of Silk Sonic&#8217;s <strong><em>\u2018Leave the Door Open\u2019,<\/em><\/strong> which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Song of The Year.\u00a0 Cruz&#8217; reggae version is produced by Tad&#8217;s International Record and was recently released.<\/p>\n<p>It hears the veteran singer returning to ballad form after releasing a succession of roots singles including <strong><em>\u2018No Weapon\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018<strong><em>Righteousness wi Come fi Defend\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While being original is critical for an artist, Cruz sees nothing wrong with doing covers. One of his early hits was a reggae spin on Usher&#8217;s <strong><em>\u2018U Got it Bad\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;A cover version is always nice; Jamaican people love a good cover version. There are just as powerful as original songs because it shows your versatility and your singing ability,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Leave The Door Open\u2019<\/em><\/strong> also sees Cruz renewing ties with musician\/producer Willie Lindo and his son, Kashief Lindo, who played bass on the song and mixed it, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Several of Cruz&#8217; early songs, including <strong><em>\u2018You Make me Wanna\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Just Call my Name\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, were produced by Willie Lindo for Heavy Beat Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Cruz returns to his lover\u2019s rock roots with a cover of Silk Sonic&#8217;s \u2018Leave the Door Open\u2019, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Song of The Year.\u00a0 Cruz&#8217; reggae version is produced by Tad&#8217;s International Record and was recently released. It hears the veteran singer returning to ballad form after releasing a succession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","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\/3526","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=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}