{"id":3795,"date":"2022-07-08T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:16:07","slug":"the-split-personality-of-wingy-danejah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3795","title":{"rendered":"The Split Personality of Wingy Danejah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day when he attended dances, Wingy Danejah tuned in to artists like Tiger and Zebra. A committed Christian for almost 30 years, he returns to his dance roots on <strong><em>\u2018Split Personality\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song released on June 30 by Danejah Records.<\/p>\n<p>The gospel artist, who is based in Florida, does a spot-on impression of both deejays. He wanted to send a clear message to the misguided.\u00a0 \u201cI used to pretend to be somebody that I\u2019m not. The message I\u2019m trying to send is to tell people to be themselves. Be a leader, not a follower,\u201d said Wingy Danejah.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top deejays of the 1980s, Tiger is known for hits like <strong><em>\u2018When\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018No Wanga Gut\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Puppy Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. His career was curtailed by an auto accident in 1994 which left him with severe head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Zebra came to the fore in the 1980s as a Tiger sound-alike. He is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for buggery and rape.<\/p>\n<p>Although aware of Zebra\u2019s criminal record, Wingy Danejah had an objective when recording <strong><em>\u2018Split Personality\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I did secular music, I use to imitate Tiger and Zebra before I found my true identity and when I got saved, I just stopped. I chose this style to reach people in the world that\u2019s not saved to bring forth the message of Jesus Christ in a voice that that they think they know,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis world is also built off of controversy, so like the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 1:27, \u2018Use the foolish things to confound the wise\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wingy Danejah has been recording pop-flavored gospel songs since the mid-1990s. Prior to his Danejah Records, his songs were released by EMI Records and Awake Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day when he attended dances, Wingy Danejah tuned in to artists like Tiger and Zebra. A committed Christian for almost 30 years, he returns to his dance roots on \u2018Split Personality\u2019, a song released on June 30 by Danejah Records. The gospel artist, who is based in Florida, does a spot-on impression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","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\/3795","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=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}