{"id":4362,"date":"2022-09-03T01:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2022-09-03T01:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:27:16","slug":"clement-gordon-salutes-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"Clement Gordon Salutes Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he has lived abroad for over 40 years, Clement Gordon lives and breathes Jamaica. The singer salutes his country\u2019s resilience on <strong><em>\u2018Rule the World\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was released on August 5.<\/p>\n<p>The song came out one day before Jamaica celebrated its 60<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary as an independent nation. Gordon, who has lived in Canada and the United States for over 40 years, recorded the song with patriotism oozing from his heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMi play \u2018roun\u2019, play \u2018roun\u2019 with the idea till mi jus\u2019 sey, \u2018write it Rasta!\u2019. I never thought of it as a festival song but it really is a festival song,\u201d said Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Festival\u2019 refers to the festival Song Competition which has been held annually in Jamaica since 1966. Gordon and Leroy Brown, who produced \u2018Rule the World\u2019, had it mind for that event, but it did not make the final cut.\u00a0 Undeterred, they released it as Jamaicans prepared for events marking their country\u2019s Diamond Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon was born in Kingston, Jamaica\u2019s capital, and moved around the city\u2019s music circles in the 1960\u2019s. Moving to Toronto during the mid-1970s, he became immersed in the growing reggae community along with Leroy Brown, Johnny Osbourne, Jackie Mittoo, Willi Williams and Leroy Sibbles.<\/p>\n<p>He migrated to the USA in the early 1980\u2019s, settling in Detroit. There, he performed in reggae venues such as Jamaica House, Majestic and Club Caribbean as well as the Wild Hare in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Gordon has collaborated with Brown on several songs including <strong><em>\u2018Granny\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Problems\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018<strong><em>This Old Heart of Mine\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. With <strong><em>\u2018Rule the World\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cIf Jamaica really was the size of New York, we would rule di world. Everybody want to be like a Jamaican\u2026that\u2019s a fact!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he has lived abroad for over 40 years, Clement Gordon lives and breathes Jamaica. The singer salutes his country\u2019s resilience on \u2018Rule the World\u2019, which was released on August 5. The song came out one day before Jamaica celebrated its 60th\u00a0anniversary as an independent nation. Gordon, who has lived in Canada and the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}