{"id":6906,"date":"2023-09-29T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2023-10-06T12:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:07:26","slug":"empress-adara-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6906","title":{"rendered":"Empress Adara Makes Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <strong><em>\u2018Late Night Fights\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Empress Adara\u2019s first song, was released in early September, the Toronto native has been writing since she was a pre-teen. The lovers rock reggae ballad is produced and arranged by Leroy Sibbles, her grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>The horn-hooked single is driven by live instruments including bass by Sibbles, whose Bright Beam Music label released <strong><em>\u2018Late Night Fights\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6899\" style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6899\" class=\"wp-image-6899 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2-138x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"222\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2-473x1024.jpg 473w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2-768x1664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2-709x1536.jpg 709w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2-945x2048.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Empress-Adara-Leroy-Sibbles-Pic-2.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 102px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 102\/222;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empress Adara &amp; Leroy Sibbles<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve only been recording for a couple of years, but I\u2019ve been writing since I was seven. One of my biggest influences is of course my grandfather but I have so many more, I can\u2019t even count them. Some are Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Ashley Cole, Stevie Wonder\u2026the list goes on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Empress Adara is the second of Sibbles\u2019 grandchildren to follow his path into music. Kid Kwazii, a rapper and Empress Adara\u2019s older brother, kicked off his recording career in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>She is aware of her grandfather\u2019s lofty legacy as a singer\/songwriter with The Heptones, bass player on some of reggae\u2019s biggest hits at the legendary Studio One label, and a driving force of Canadian reggae. Yet, Empress Adara does not intend to limit her music to one genre.\u00a0 \u201cI love music, I love all music. It really just depends on what the song moves me toward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although \u2018Late Night Fights\u2019, Empress Adara\u2019s first song, was released in early September, the Toronto native has been writing since she was a pre-teen. The lovers rock reggae ballad is produced and arranged by Leroy Sibbles, her grandfather. The horn-hooked single is driven by live instruments including bass by Sibbles, whose Bright Beam Music label [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-6906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906","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=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}