{"id":4534,"date":"2022-09-30T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2022-10-07T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:43:13","slug":"timmy-love-looks-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4534","title":{"rendered":"Timmy Love Looks to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u2018Africa\u2019<\/strong><\/em> by Toto is one of the songs classic rock radio fans in North America can\u2019t get enough of. Singer Timmy Love has always loved the track, but only recently did he decide to cover it.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican artist, who lives in Connecticut, put a reggae flavor to the 1982 monster hit that went number one in the United States and other major music markets.<\/p>\n<p>Timmy Love\u2019s version was released in August and is the follow-up to\u00a0<em><strong>\u2018Forever Young\u2019<\/strong><\/em>, his cover of the hit single by German pop group, Alphaville.\u00a0 \u201cIt was my idea to cover the song, I liked this song from I was growing up. The fact that it was done by Toto for Africans for their poverty and struggle moved me,\u201d said Love, who is also a bass guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<em><strong>\u2018Africa\u2019<\/strong><\/em>, he worked with keyboardist Dwayne Morris, guitarist O\u2019Neil Stennett, as well as experienced musician\/producers Sidney Mills and Paul \u201cComputer Paul\u201d Henton.<\/p>\n<p>Co-written by Toto\u2019s keyboardist David Paich and drummer Jeff Porcaro,\u00a0<em><strong>\u2018Africa\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was one of three massive hits from\u00a0<em><strong>\u2018Toto IV\u2019<\/strong><\/em>, the album that saw the band evolve from session musicians to the headline act.<\/p>\n<p>While Toto was winning six Grammy Awards for\u00a0<em><strong>\u2018Toto IV\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in 1983, Timmy Love was about to launch his career as a singer\/musician in Jamaica\u2019s tourist hotels. He credits that scene for him developing an eclectic appreciation for music.\u00a0 Since moving to the US, Love has recorded five albums with the RefleXX Band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Africa\u2019 by Toto is one of the songs classic rock radio fans in North America can\u2019t get enough of. Singer Timmy Love has always loved the track, but only recently did he decide to cover it. The Jamaican artist, who lives in Connecticut, put a reggae flavor to the 1982 monster hit that went number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","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\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}