{"id":7500,"date":"2024-01-19T09:08:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7500"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:08:19","slug":"george-nooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7500","title":{"rendered":"George Nooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>George Nooks<\/b>,\u00a0<abbr title=\"also known as\">a.k.a.<\/abbr>\u00a0<b>Prince Mohamed<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Prince Mohammed<\/b>, or\u00a0<b>George Knooks<\/b>\u00a0(born c. 1958) is a Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer who initially found fame as a\u00a0deejay.<\/p>\n<p>Nooks started his musical career in the youth choir at his church, and moved on to perform at school concerts and talent shows. After first recording professionally in 1974, Nooks first found success performing under the name Prince Mohamed, as a deejay on\u00a0discomix\u00a0tracks for producer\u00a0Joe Gibbs, notably on\u00a0Dennis Brown&#8217;s 1978 hit &#8220;Money in my Pocket&#8221;, and &#8220;How Could I Leave&#8221;, as well as &#8220;Light Up Your Spliff&#8221; for producer Prince Tony Robinson, founder of the\u00a0<i>Groovemaster<\/i>\u00a0roots record label, which also featured popular releases by Barrington Spence and\u00a0Big Youth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Nooks\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Nooks,\u00a0a.k.a.\u00a0Prince Mohamed,\u00a0Prince Mohammed, or\u00a0George Knooks\u00a0(born c. 1958) is a Jamaican\u00a0reggae\u00a0singer who initially found fame as a\u00a0deejay. Nooks started his musical career in the youth choir at his church, and moved on to perform at school concerts and talent shows. After first recording professionally in 1974, Nooks first found success performing under the name Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-7500","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\/7500","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=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}