{"id":7358,"date":"2023-12-22T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2023-12-22T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:42:18","slug":"jah-melody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7358","title":{"rendered":"Jah Melody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1980 as Michael Williams, the youngest of six children in a humble, church-going family from Carenage, Trinidad, JAMELODY got his start as so many greats have before him, by honing his chops singing in church choir. As everyone knows, Trinidad\/Tobago is birthplace to soca\/calypso\u2014the music that motors the twin islands\u2019 Carnival, the most spectacular party on earth. Yet young Michael wasn\u2019t feeling his native sounds. As a young teen, he and a few friends formed acapella group Brothers with Voices. Michael took the leads and arranged their covers of R&amp;B favorites like Boys II Men, Take 6, Brian McKnight, and older groups like the Temptations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vprecords.com\/jamelody\/\">Read More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1980 as Michael Williams, the youngest of six children in a humble, church-going family from Carenage, Trinidad, JAMELODY got his start as so many greats have before him, by honing his chops singing in church choir. As everyone knows, Trinidad\/Tobago is birthplace to soca\/calypso\u2014the music that motors the twin islands\u2019 Carnival, the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-7358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-stars","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358","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=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7359,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions\/7359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}