{"id":5064,"date":"2022-12-23T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2022-12-23T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:41:02","slug":"i-octane-goes-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5064","title":{"rendered":"I-Octane Goes Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

When most persons hear ‘Nashville’, country music comes to mind. That city, in Tennessee, has been the genre’s bedrock for almost a century.\u00a0 Dancehall star I-Octane took his show to Lavo Lounge there on November 26. It attracted a strong turnout of mainly Jamaicans and Africans.<\/p>\n

\"\"I-Octane, best known for songs such as \u2018L.O.V.E.Y.O.U.’<\/em><\/strong> and ‘Hold Her in my Arms’<\/em><\/strong>, was performing in Nashville for the first time.\u00a0 He thoroughly enjoyed it.\u00a0 “My first time performing in Nashville was beautiful, a great experience.\u00a0 One of the nicest things about it was our (Jamaican) Diaspora,” he said.\u00a0 “It was a very, very mixed crowd; a lot of Africans were there so that was good. Everyone fully appreciated the performance.”<\/p>\n

On December 4, the singer performed at the annual Art Basel Miami event alongside acts like Inner Circle and Ky-Mani Marley. That show was also attended by a diverse crowd.\u00a0 “It’s always great to break into new markets.\u00a0 It’s a plus for every individual who is in dancehall\/reggae,” said I-Octane.<\/p>\n

The Nashville\/Miami shows capped a productive year for the Clarendon-born artist. ‘I Am Great\u2019, <\/em><\/strong>his 15-song album, was released in March.\u00a0 He also recorded ‘Chocolate’<\/em><\/strong>, a collaboration with Inner Cirlce. Independent is his latest single.<\/p>\n

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When most persons hear ‘Nashville’, country music comes to mind. That city, in Tennessee, has been the genre’s bedrock for almost a century.\u00a0 Dancehall star I-Octane took his show to Lavo Lounge there on November 26. It attracted a strong turnout of mainly Jamaicans and Africans. I-Octane, best known for songs such as \u2018L.O.V.E.Y.O.U.’ and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5064","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\/5064","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=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}