{"id":5787,"date":"2023-04-07T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2023-04-07T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T09:06:38","slug":"leroy-sibbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5787","title":{"rendered":"Leroy Sibbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Leroy Sibbles<\/b>\u00a0(born Leroy Sibblies, 29 January 1949) is a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0musician and producer. He was the lead singer for\u00a0The Heptones\u00a0in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his work with The Heptones, Sibbles was a session bassist and arranger at\u00a0Clement &#8220;Coxsone&#8221; Dodd&#8217;s Jamaica Recording and Publishing Studio and the associated\u00a0Studio One\u00a0label during the prolific late 1960s. He was described as &#8220;the greatest all-round talent in reggae history&#8221; by Kevin O&#8217;Brien Chang and Wayne Chen in their 1998 book\u00a0<i>Reggae Routes<\/i>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Chang_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leroy_Sibbles\">Read More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leroy Sibbles\u00a0(born Leroy Sibblies, 29 January 1949) is a\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0musician and producer. He was the lead singer for\u00a0The Heptones\u00a0in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to his work with The Heptones, Sibbles was a session bassist and arranger at\u00a0Clement &#8220;Coxsone&#8221; Dodd&#8217;s Jamaica Recording and Publishing Studio and the associated\u00a0Studio One\u00a0label during the prolific late 1960s. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-5787","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\/5787","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=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}