{"id":7480,"date":"2024-01-12T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2024-01-12T07:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:35:31","slug":"canute-ellis-revives-a-gospel-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7480","title":{"rendered":"Canute Ellis Revives a Gospel Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Jamaican gospel act to earn respect among dancehall fans, The Grace Thrillers are trailblazers who made their mark with songs like <strong><em>\u2018Can\u2019t Even Walk\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018He Saw my Need\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. The latter has been revived by producer Canute Ellis who recruited singer Samantha Gooden and \u2018The Thrillers\u2019 to record a new version.<\/p>\n<p>Released on January 1, it is produced by Ellis, who worked as an engineer with the group during the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been an idea of mine for over 10 years. I\u2019ve wanted to pay homage to the\u00a0people who gave me my start in music. When I joined (Grace Thrillers founder) Noel Willis, as a young inexperienced engineer for The Grace Thrillers, I knew very little\u00a0about engineering or how to fully express myself musically and thanks to the opportunity I received to work with them, that all changed,\u201d said Ellis.<\/p>\n<p>He contacted Gooden (a Barbadian who was born in the United Kingdom) to perform on the revamped <strong><em>\u2018He Saw my Need\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Ellis hopes their version will make an impact with fans, many of whom were not born when the original song rode Jamaican charts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been 30 years since the original was released and it\u2019s the right time to introduce a younger audience to one of the greatest gospel groups,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The classic Grace Thrillers lineup that recorded <strong><em>\u2018He Saw my Need\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Can\u2019t Even Walk\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>had all but dissolved at the time Ellis joined the camp in 1999. But being around Ellis and Grub Cooper, who produced the group, gave him an appreciation for music production.\u00a0 Over the years, he has worked with a diverse cast of artists such as Kirk Franklin, Beres Hammond, The Commodores and Jimmy Cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Jamaican gospel act to earn respect among dancehall fans, The Grace Thrillers are trailblazers who made their mark with songs like \u2018Can\u2019t Even Walk\u2019 and \u2018He Saw my Need\u2019. The latter has been revived by producer Canute Ellis who recruited singer Samantha Gooden and \u2018The Thrillers\u2019 to record a new version. Released on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7480","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\/7480","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=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}