{"id":3769,"date":"2022-07-01T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:39:03","slug":"jimmy-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3769","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Martin James Ziggy Norman Riley<\/b>\u00a0(22 May 1947 \u2013 23 March 2016), better known as\u00a0<b>Jimmy Riley<\/b>, was a\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaican<\/a>\u00a0singer who in addition to recording solo was also a member of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"The Sensations (Jamaica)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sensations_(Jamaica)\">the Sensations<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"The Uniques (Jamaican group)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Uniques_(Jamaican_group)\">The Uniques<\/a>\u00a0and was the father of\u00a0<a title=\"Tarrus Riley\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarrus_Riley\">Tarrus Riley<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Kenner_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Martin James Ziggy Norman Riley also known as Jimmy Riley was born in Jonestown,\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston, Jamaica<\/a>\u00a0on 22 May 1947.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Meschino_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Riley grew up in the city&#8217;s Waterhouse district and attended Kingston Senior School along with\u00a0<a title=\"Slim Smith\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slim_Smith\">Slim Smith<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Katz_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Morgan_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>When Smith had success in\u00a0<a title=\"The Techniques\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Techniques\">The Techniques<\/a>, Riley hung around with the group hoping to join, but was limited to carrying things for them and helping out with harmonies.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Katz_4-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He decided to form his own group, The Sensations, along with\u00a0<a title=\"Cornell Campbell\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornell_Campbell\">Cornell Campbell<\/a>, Buster Riley (brother of The Techniques&#8217; Winston Riley), and Aaron &#8220;Dego&#8221; Davis.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Katz_4-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Riley\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin James Ziggy Norman Riley\u00a0(22 May 1947 \u2013 23 March 2016), better known as\u00a0Jimmy Riley, was a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0singer who in addition to recording solo was also a member of\u00a0the Sensations\u00a0and\u00a0The Uniques\u00a0and was the father of\u00a0Tarrus Riley. Martin James Ziggy Norman Riley also known as Jimmy Riley was born in Jonestown,\u00a0Kingston, Jamaica\u00a0on 22 May 1947.\u00a0Riley grew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-3769","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\/3769","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=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}