{"id":8358,"date":"2024-03-24T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2024-04-05T07:18:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T07:18:28","slug":"kirk-diamond-wins-back-2-back-juno-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8358","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Diamond Wins Back 2 Back JUNO Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Diamond and Finn clinched the 2024 Reggae Recording of the Year at the JUNO opening night awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for their album <strong><em>&#8216;Dread,&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> marking a consecutive win for the duo.<\/p>\n<p>Their collaboration also secured victory in 2023 with <strong><em>&#8216;Reggae Party,&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> featuring Kairo Mclean. For Kirk Diamond, this victory adds to his total JUNO awards wins, initially winning in 2018 for <strong><em>&#8216;Greater.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> Nominated five times, Diamond&#8217;s prominence in Canadian reggae is unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>Competing against formidable contenders like Ammoye featuring Turbulence with <strong><em>&#8216;Stir This Thing,&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> Exco Levi with <strong><em>&#8216;Feel Like Home,&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> Jah Mila with <strong><em>&#8216;Roots Girl,&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>&#8216;Rush Dem&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> by Omega Mighty featuring 4Korners and Haviah Mighty, Diamond and Finn&#8217;s triumph is commendable.<\/p>\n<p>The JUNO Awards, recognizing Canadian music excellence since 1970, will climax with a grand ceremony at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sunday, March 24, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Diamond and Finn clinched the 2024 Reggae Recording of the Year at the JUNO opening night awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for their album &#8216;Dread,&#8217; marking a consecutive win for the duo. Their collaboration also secured victory in 2023 with &#8216;Reggae Party,&#8217; featuring Kairo Mclean. For Kirk Diamond, this victory adds to his total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","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=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}