{"id":3737,"date":"2022-07-01T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:39:53","slug":"higher-calling-for-everton-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3737","title":{"rendered":"Higher calling for Everton Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everton Blender &#8212; buoyed by the sampling of his <strong><em>\u2018Ghetto People Song\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by French Montana and Harry Fraud &#8212; returns to the live show scene on July 10 at The Cave in Paterson, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 lockdowns forced the veteran singer to take a near two-year break from the stage, but he is looking forward to his comeback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMi feel a way dat di people dem get lock down an\u2019 couldn\u2019t get to go out an\u2019 \u2018fulljoy\u2019 demself. So, I feel good for dem, not jus\u2019 for myself,\u201d said Blender.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks before the show in New Jersey, saw the release of <strong><em>\u2018Higher\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song by rappers French Montana and Harry Fraud. It samples <strong><em>\u2018Ghetto People Song\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song released by Tony Rebel\u2019s Flames Productions in 1996. <strong><em>\u2018Higher\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>features Blender\u2019s vocals throughout as French Montana and Harry Fraud rap.<\/p>\n<p>Based in South Florida, Blender says he has never earned from <strong><em>\u2018Ghetto People Song\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which was recorded on the <strong><em>\u2018La La Bella \u2018riddim\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. That beat produced two more sizable hits in Rebel\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018If Jah is Standing by my Side\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Are You satisfied\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Ras Shiloh.\u00a0 <strong><em>\u2018Blender\u2019<\/em><\/strong> states that he heard of the sample through a friend. As he prepares to hit the road, his lawyers are making sure the appropriate channels were covered before <strong><em>\u2018Higher\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Tony Rebel, Garnet Silk and Yasus Afari, the 67-year-old Blender was part of the roots revival that transformed dancehall music in the 1990s. He is best known for the anthem, <strong><em>\u2018Lift up Your Head\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, as well as <strong><em>\u2018Family Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Piece of The Blender\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton Blender &#8212; buoyed by the sampling of his \u2018Ghetto People Song\u2019 by French Montana and Harry Fraud &#8212; returns to the live show scene on July 10 at The Cave in Paterson, New Jersey. Covid-19 lockdowns forced the veteran singer to take a near two-year break from the stage, but he is looking forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","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\/3737","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=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}