{"id":6117,"date":"2023-05-26T04:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:37:36","slug":"tapper-zukie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6117","title":{"rendered":"Tapper Zukie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tapper Zukie<\/b>\u00a0(or\u00a0<b>Tappa Zukie<\/b>) (born\u00a0<b>David Sinclair<\/b>, 1955,\u00a0Kingston,\u00a0Jamaica) is a\u00a0reggae\u00a0deejay\u00a0and\u00a0producer.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Greene_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Tapper was the\u00a0nickname\u00a0given to him by his\u00a0grandmother\u00a0in his\u00a0youth, while Zukie was a name that came from his friends&#8217; association as a young boy &#8211; their gang was called &#8216;The Zukies&#8217;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Greene_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In 1973 his mother, concerned with Zukie&#8217;s tendency to get into trouble, sent him to\u00a0England\u00a0to stay with some relatives.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Greene_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Producer\u00a0Bunny Lee\u00a0arranged with the\u00a0UK-based entrepreneur Larry Lawrence for him to undertake some\u00a0recording\u00a0sessions and\u00a0concerts, opening for\u00a0U-Roy\u00a0the day after his arrival in\u00a0London.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Greene_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Zukie&#8217;s first release was the\u00a0single\u00a0&#8220;Jump &amp; Twist&#8221;, produced by Lawrence.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Greene_1-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Around this time he also recorded material for\u00a0Clem Bushay, which would later form part of the\u00a0<i>Man Ah Warrior<\/i>\u00a0album, issued in 1973.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tapper_Zukie\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapper Zukie\u00a0(or\u00a0Tappa Zukie) (born\u00a0David Sinclair, 1955,\u00a0Kingston,\u00a0Jamaica) is a\u00a0reggae\u00a0deejay\u00a0and\u00a0producer. Tapper was the\u00a0nickname\u00a0given to him by his\u00a0grandmother\u00a0in his\u00a0youth, while Zukie was a name that came from his friends&#8217; association as a young boy &#8211; their gang was called &#8216;The Zukies&#8217;. In 1973 his mother, concerned with Zukie&#8217;s tendency to get into trouble, sent him to\u00a0England\u00a0to stay with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-6117","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\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}