{"id":4869,"date":"2022-11-25T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:04:02","slug":"a-latin-dance-with-belinda-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"A Latin Dance with Belinda Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Belinda Brady called on her multi-ethnic heritage for <strong><em>\u2018Dance with Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a recently released Latin song she recorded with producer Leroy Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The track has a strong Spanish flavor, built around the riffs of Canadian guitarist Steve Major. Drummer Sly Dunbar, Paul \u201cWrong Move\u201d Crosdale on keyboards and bass, also worked on <strong><em>\u2018Dance with Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Brady\u2019s second release of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept came about based on my Cuban-Jamaican background, which I presented to the team in Jamaica; Leroy Brown, Sly Dunbar, Rorey Baker and Karl Toppin. We all decided it was the right direction to take at this time,\u201d said the Toronto-based artist. \u201cEven though my ancestors are also from Ireland, Africa, and India, I have always loved Latin music and felt a deep connection to the culture as well.\u00a0 So, I decided to go with the Latin direction with a Jamaican foundation, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brady was born in Kingston, Jamaica\u2019s capital and one of the Caribbean\u2019s great melting pots. She was once a background singer for Shaggy, Julian Marley and soca star Denyse Plummer but has mainly performed solo since moving to Canada in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>With Latin America one of the biggest markets for pop music, that is one of the areas she hopes <strong><em>\u2018Dance with Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong> will do well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team and I will be targeting the Latin region including other parts of the world we believe would receive the song in a positive way including the UK, North America, Africa, the Caribbean and other territories. We look forward to the response and the great positive support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Belinda Brady called on her multi-ethnic heritage for \u2018Dance with Me\u2019, a recently released Latin song she recorded with producer Leroy Brown. The track has a strong Spanish flavor, built around the riffs of Canadian guitarist Steve Major. Drummer Sly Dunbar, Paul \u201cWrong Move\u201d Crosdale on keyboards and bass, also worked on \u2018Dance with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}