{"id":4369,"date":"2022-09-08T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:25:58","slug":"tommy-cowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Cowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tommy Cowan<\/b>\u00a0<a title=\"Order of Distinction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Distinction\">CD<\/a>\u00a0(born Thomas Lincoln Cowan, 6 April 1946,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Elizabeth_Parish,_Jamaica\">Saint Elizabeth<\/a>, Jamaica) is a producer and singer, initially working in\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0but later concentrating on\u00a0<a title=\"Gospel music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel_music\">gospel<\/a>, who has been involved in the music business since the 1960s.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Brooks_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He is also an ordained Gospel minister and a justice of the peace.<\/p>\n<p>Cowan entered the music business in the mid-1960s as a member of The Merricoles, a vocal group who won a local talent contest.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0The group changed their name to\u00a0<a title=\"The Jamaicans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jamaicans\">The Jamaicans<\/a>\u00a0in 1967, and won the\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica Independence Festival\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica_Independence_Festival#Popular_Song_Competition\">Jamaican Song Festival<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0<a title=\"Duke Reid\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_Reid\">Duke Reid<\/a>-produced &#8220;Baba Boom&#8221;, which also topped the Jamaican chart.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0More hits followed in the form of &#8220;Sing Freedom&#8221;, &#8220;Things You Say You Love&#8221;, and &#8220;Woman Go Home&#8221;, before the group split up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tommy_Cowan\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Cowan\u00a0CD\u00a0(born Thomas Lincoln Cowan, 6 April 1946,\u00a0Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a producer and singer, initially working in\u00a0reggae\u00a0but later concentrating on\u00a0gospel, who has been involved in the music business since the 1960s.\u00a0He is also an ordained Gospel minister and a justice of the peace. Cowan entered the music business in the mid-1960s as a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-4369","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\/4369","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=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}