{"id":5211,"date":"2023-01-13T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:15:43","slug":"worl-a-girl-is-back-with-la-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5211","title":{"rendered":"Worl-A-Girl is Back with La La"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before rappers like Busta Rhymes flaunted their Caribbean roots, Worl-A-Girl proudly projected their regional heritage for all to see with songs like <strong><em>\u2018No Gunshot\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and a cover of Bob Marley\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018No Woman No Cry\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After a long break, the quartet recently reunited and did recording sessions with veteran musician\/producer Sidney Mills. The song <strong><em>\u2018La La\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is the first release from that collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom time to time, we discussed a reunion, and it was all about timing to make it happen. Our fans would always ask us for new music,\u201d said Sensi, one of the group\u2019s three original members. \u201cOur approach was to be from fun, love and inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linda and Sabrina are the other members who started Worl-A-Girl in 1991. Juliet, who completes the lineup, joined four years later as replacement for Charmaine DaCosta, another original member. \u00a0All have West Indian roots. Sensi was born in England, Linda was born in New York, Sabrina is from Trinidad and Tobago and Juliet is Jamaican.<\/p>\n<p>When they agreed to a comeback, they sought the New York-based Mills, who was born in England but raised in Jamaica. He was a member of Steel Pulse for many years.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1990s, Worl-A-Girl was signed to Chaos Records, an affiliate of Sony International Music. That company released their self-titled debut album in 1994.\u00a0 The previous year, they had a well-received song in <strong><em>\u2018Jamaican Bobsledding Chant\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which saluted the Jamaican bobsled team\u2019s sensational feats at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before rappers like Busta Rhymes flaunted their Caribbean roots, Worl-A-Girl proudly projected their regional heritage for all to see with songs like \u2018No Gunshot\u2019 and a cover of Bob Marley\u2019s \u2018No Woman No Cry\u2019. After a long break, the quartet recently reunited and did recording sessions with veteran musician\/producer Sidney Mills. The song \u2018La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5211","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\/5211","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=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}