{"id":7156,"date":"2023-11-17T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:14:04","slug":"up-close-with-audley-rollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7156","title":{"rendered":"Up Close with Audley Rollen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two years after topping the South Florida Reggae Chart with <strong><em>\u2018Close to You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Audley Rollen has put new life into that song with the release of a music video. Filmed in the prime tourist areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, the visual features Rollen and Dawn Marie, his wife of 26 years.<\/p>\n<p>Rollen, who has been in the music business for over 60 years, credits his wife for many of his ballads.\u00a0 \u201cMy wife and I spend a lot of time together and yes she has been the inspiration to many of the love songs I\u2019ve written, and I give thanks for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8216;Close to You&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> is from <strong><em>&#8216;I Need You&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, Rollen&#8217;s album which came out in July 2022. It also produced sizable hits in the title track and <strong><em>&#8216;Never Knew Love till You&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, all of which he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Although he covered Mel Carter\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (as <strong><em>\u2018Hold Me, Thrill Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong>) on <strong><em>\u2018I Need You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Rollen has avoided \u2018doing over\u2019 other artist\u2019s songs since his early days in the business. &#8220;I prefer to be original and so I always think first to be creative, and that\u2019s why I have not covered a lot of songs, it\u2019s just not my thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>An ordained minister of religion, the South Florida-based artist and his wife are pastors at Wisdom Sabbath Ministry in Plantation, South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a member of The Hippy Boys, The Emotions and Youth Professionals along with future Wailers drum and bass team, Carlton Barrett and Aston &#8220;Family Man&#8221; Barrett, and bass player Robbie Shakespeare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two years after topping the South Florida Reggae Chart with \u2018Close to You\u2019, Audley Rollen has put new life into that song with the release of a music video. Filmed in the prime tourist areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, the visual features Rollen and Dawn Marie, his wife of 26 years. Rollen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7156","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\/7156","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=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7157,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions\/7157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}