{"id":6618,"date":"2023-08-11T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T09:04:17","slug":"dwisdoms-first-real-love-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6618","title":{"rendered":"Dwisdom\u2019s \u2018First Real Love\u2019 on Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Thirty-two years is a long time to release a video for a hit song, but as the saying goes, \u2018nothing happens before its time. In July, a visual for Dwisdom\u2019s <\/span><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018My First Real Love\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> hit the market, three months after it was filmed in South Florida.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Directed and produced by Steve HoSang for Digital 1 Media Service, the video had the full involvement of Willie Stewart, who co-produced the song in 1991 with his younger brother Pablo.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Stewart, who co-wrote the R&amp;B ballad with Dwisdom, Neville Hines and Ian Hird, said the song remains popular three decades later.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">&#8220;I know the song still has the magic today as it had the first day it was released because everyone who hears it for the first time falls in love with it,&#8221; he stated.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The video was released just as Dwisdom went on tour as a member of Beres Hammond\u2019s Harmony House Singers. She has been part of the lover\u2019s rock king\u2019s recording and touring setup for over 20 years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dwisdom was a teenager when she met Pablo Stewart, who was a member of Kotch, a reggae band that scored a hit single in the 1980s with <\/span><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018Jean\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">. Her vocals impressed him, and he introduced her to Willie, best known as drummer for reggae band Third World.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">&#8220;He believed in her talent and when we recorded the song and I heard her voice I understood why. Pablo and I had a gut feeling it would do well but never to the massive hit it became in the hearts of our Jamaican people,&#8221; said Stewart.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018My First Real Love\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> was number one in Jamaica for several weeks. Because of its pop sound, many fans believed Dwisdom \u2014 who is from Portmore in Jamaica \u2014 was American.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Willie Stewart lives in South Florida where he teaches drumming in the Broward County school system. Pablo Stewart died in 2002.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-two years is a long time to release a video for a hit song, but as the saying goes, \u2018nothing happens before its time. In July, a visual for Dwisdom\u2019s \u2018My First Real Love\u2019 hit the market, three months after it was filmed in South Florida.\u00a0 Directed and produced by Steve HoSang for Digital 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6618","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\/6618","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=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}