{"id":3615,"date":"2022-06-10T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:10:18","slug":"ezekiah-rose-pushes-good-ova-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiah Rose pushes Good Ova Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, singer Ezekiah Rose began production on his first album in Kingston with some of reggae\u2019s most seasoned musicians. After meticulous brainstorming, <strong><em>\u2018Good Ova Evil\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was released in March.<\/p>\n<p>Rose began his career as a deejay in 2007 but after taking guitar lessons and listening to \u201cserious artists\u201d like Peter Tosh, Luciano, Tracy Chapman and Sade, his music took a different course.<\/p>\n<p>He said that sustained shift can be heard on <strong><em>\u2018Good Ova Evil\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which features collaborations with Nature Ellis (on The Faith) and Lutan Fyah (on Be Strong).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is a great feeling, it&#8217;s been years wondering when this day will come. One of the songs on the album, <strong><em>\u2018Sure Time\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, express everything on it&#8230; everything happens in time,\u201d reasoned the dreadlocked Rose.<\/p>\n<p>He officially launched the album on March 13 at the Kingston home of famed session guitarist Earl \u201cChinna\u201d Smith, known for his work with Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Jimmy Cliff and Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers.\u00a0 Guitarist Junior Bailey of the Fabulous Five Band also played on the album.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was born in Kingston, Jamaica\u2019s capitol, Ezekiah\u00a0Rose was raised in Spanish Town. That area has produced a number of big acts such as Papa San, Lieutenant Stitchie, Lady G and Dennis Walks.\u00a0 At the launch three weeks ago, there were also performances from Fred Locks, Nature Ellis, India Celine and Jah Platinum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, singer Ezekiah Rose began production on his first album in Kingston with some of reggae\u2019s most seasoned musicians. After meticulous brainstorming, \u2018Good Ova Evil\u2019 was released in March. Rose began his career as a deejay in 2007 but after taking guitar lessons and listening to \u201cserious artists\u201d like Peter Tosh, Luciano, Tracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","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\/3615","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=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}