{"id":5375,"date":"2023-02-10T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2023-02-10T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:47:40","slug":"leslie-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Leslie Kong<\/b>\u00a0(20 December 1933 \u2013 9 August 1971)<sup id=\"cite_ref-AMG_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0was an influential\u00a0Chinese-Jamaican\u00a0reggae producer.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie and his two older brothers Cecil and Lloyd ran a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop called Beverley&#8217;s in Orange Street,\u00a0Kingston.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Unsung_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In 1961, he encountered a young\u00a0Jimmy Cliff\u00a0outside of his shop singing a song he had written called &#8220;Dearest Beverley&#8221;, in the hopes that the mention of the establishment would convince Kong to record him.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Alleyne_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0This encounter led Kong to launch his own record label,\u00a0Beverley&#8217;s, and to record Cliff&#8217;s song, launching Cliff&#8217;s career in the process.<sup id=\"cite_ref-AMG_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Kong\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Kong\u00a0(20 December 1933 \u2013 9 August 1971)\u00a0was an influential\u00a0Chinese-Jamaican\u00a0reggae producer. Leslie and his two older brothers Cecil and Lloyd ran a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop called Beverley&#8217;s in Orange Street,\u00a0Kingston.\u00a0In 1961, he encountered a young\u00a0Jimmy Cliff\u00a0outside of his shop singing a song he had written called &#8220;Dearest Beverley&#8221;, in the hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5375","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\/5375","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=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}