{"id":4204,"date":"2022-08-19T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:06:24","slug":"new-album-from-tanya-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4204","title":{"rendered":"New Album from Tanya Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>\u2018Some Kinda Madness\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tanya Stephens\u2019 eighth studio album, will be released on September 3 by Tad\u2019s International Record. The set is produced by Tad Dawkins Jr.\u00a0 It contains the previously released singles &#8212; <\/span><b><i>\u2018Diamonds in The Sun\u2019,<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a collaboration with Cedella Marley and Diana King; and <\/span><b><i>\u2018Fifty\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which she does with Patra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMe and Tads have been trying to do work for a long time and somehow something else gets in the way. Yes, we\u2019ve done singles before, and this is our first album. This has been one of the most comfortable experiences that I\u2019ve ever had. He doesn\u2019t compromise when it comes to the music,\u201d Stephens disclosed in an interview with the Jamaica Observer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2018Diamonds in The Sun\u2019, <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which addresses domestic abuse, was number one in South Florida and New York reggae circles for several weeks in July.\u00a0 <\/span><b><i>\u2018Fifty\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was deeply personal for Stephens, who turns 50 in 2023.\u00a0 \u201cI turn 50 next year and I am celebrating everything about that. Fi mek it to half a century in these times is a big achievement. Plus, mi guh through so many changes. Mi like mi right yah suh. I think that right now is the best of me,\u201d she told the Observer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephens is best known for hit songs like <\/span><b><i>\u2018Big Things A Gwaan\u2019,<\/i><\/b> <b><i>\u2018Yuh nuh Ready fi dis Yet\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>\u2018These Streets\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2018Guilty\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, her last album, was released in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Some Kinda Madness\u2019, Tanya Stephens\u2019 eighth studio album, will be released on September 3 by Tad\u2019s International Record. The set is produced by Tad Dawkins Jr.\u00a0 It contains the previously released singles &#8212; \u2018Diamonds in The Sun\u2019, a collaboration with Cedella Marley and Diana King; and \u2018Fifty\u2019, which she does with Patra. \u201cMe and Tads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","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\/4204","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=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}