{"id":4999,"date":"2022-12-16T02:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:34:21","slug":"owen-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"OWEN GREY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Owen Gray<\/b>, also known as\u00a0<b>Owen Grey<\/b>\u00a0(born 5 July 1939),<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0is a Jamaican musician. His work spans the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"R&amp;B\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R%26B\">R&amp;B<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Ska\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ska\">ska<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Rocksteady\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocksteady\">rocksteady<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Reggae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reggae\">reggae<\/a>\u00a0eras of Jamaican music, and he has been credited as Jamaica&#8217;s first home-grown singing star.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Eder_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Gray was born in\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>. He won his first talent contest at the age of nine, and by the age of twelve he was already appearing in public, playing drums, guitar, and keyboards.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He attended the\u00a0<a title=\"Alpha Boys School\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_Boys_School\">Alpha Boys School<\/a>\u00a0and turned professional aged 19.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Eder_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Gray was a dynamic performer on stage, who could be gritty or suave as the song dictated.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Barrow_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He was the first singer (of many) to praise a\u00a0<a title=\"Sound system (Jamaican)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sound_system_(Jamaican)\">sound system<\/a>\u00a0on record, with his &#8220;On the Beach&#8221; celebrating\u00a0<a title=\"Coxsone Dodd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coxsone_Dodd\">Clement Dodd<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<i>Sir Coxsone Downbeat<\/i>\u00a0system in 1959, one of the first releases on Dodd&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Studio One (record label)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Studio_One_(record_label)\">Studio One<\/a>\u00a0label.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Eder_2-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Barrow_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He was one of the first artists to be produced by\u00a0<a title=\"Chris Blackwell\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Blackwell\">Chris Blackwell<\/a>, in 1960, and his &#8220;Patricia&#8221; single was the first record ever released by\u00a0<a title=\"Island Records\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Island_Records\">Island Records<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Gray&#8217;s first single, &#8220;Please Let Me Go&#8221;, reached the top of the charts in Jamaica, and featured a guitar solo from Australian musician Dennis Sindrey who was a member of The Caribs, a studio band that played on many early Owen Gray recordings. The single also sold well in the United Kingdom, as did subsequent releases, prompting Gray to emigrate there in 1962.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Eder_2-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He toured Europe in 1964, and by 1966 he was well known as a soul singer as well as for his ska songs. During 1966, he worked in the UK and Europe with The Krew, then in 1967 with Tony Knights Chessmen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Owen_Gray\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Gray, also known as\u00a0Owen Grey\u00a0(born 5 July 1939),\u00a0is a Jamaican musician. His work spans the\u00a0R&amp;B,\u00a0ska,\u00a0rocksteady, and\u00a0reggae\u00a0eras of Jamaican music, and he has been credited as Jamaica&#8217;s first home-grown singing star. Gray was born in\u00a0Jamaica. He won his first talent contest at the age of nine, and by the age of twelve he was already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-4999","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\/4999","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=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}