{"id":7014,"date":"2023-10-20T05:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2023-10-20T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:59:08","slug":"back-to-school-with-shaka-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7014","title":{"rendered":"Back to School with Shaka Pow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A firm believer in an educated society, deejay Shaka Pow took his message across Jamaica this year, emphasizing the benefits of staying in, and graduating from high school. That message can be heard in his song, <strong><em>\u2018Fully Bright\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which is also the name of his recent school tour.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Fully Bright\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018<strong><em>Back to School\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, another of his songs, were released prior to the new school term. It hears Shaka Pow encouraging youth to focus on their books in order to have a meaningful future.<\/p>\n<p>The former was inspired by <strong><em>\u2018Dunce Cheque\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song by high-riding deejay Valiant that projects the opposite of Shaka Pow\u2019s message. &#8220;It&#8217;s done in response to Valiant&#8217;s \u2018Dunce Cheque\u2019, to counter encouraging leaving school with no subjects and depending on unorthodox means to acquire wealth. Not geared at the artist but the ideologies and the impact it could have on impressionable minds,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>An obstetrician\/gynecologist for almost 25 years, Shaka Pow practices privately in Kingston, Jamaica\u2019s capital, as well as the Victoria Jubilee Hospital, one of the country\u2019s main maternity facilities.<\/p>\n<p>To reinforce his stay-in-school thrust, he conducted the Fully Bright School Tour from March to July, speaking to students at high, primary and basic schools in Kingston and rural parishes.\u00a0 Shaka Pow has been a recording artist since 1996. His previous songs include <strong><em>\u2018Unconditional\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Hold A Strength\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firm believer in an educated society, deejay Shaka Pow took his message across Jamaica this year, emphasizing the benefits of staying in, and graduating from high school. That message can be heard in his song, \u2018Fully Bright\u2019, which is also the name of his recent school tour. \u2018Fully Bright\u2019 and \u2018Back to School\u2019, another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7014","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\/7014","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=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}