Like so many people around the world Major Riley was in shock and horror when news broke that Peetah Morgan the lead singer of Grammy Award-winning reggae band Morgan Heritage died on February 25.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so shocked when I heard the news that Peetah had passed away. I still can\u2019t believe it\u2019s true. I feel very heartbroken because he was one of my favorite singers,\u201d said Riley.<\/p>\n
The Trinidadian reggae\/Soca singer says Peetah Morgan\u2019s music has made a big impact on his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeetah Morgan has made a significant contribution to reggae music both as the lead singer for Morgan Heritage and as a solo artist. His songs will live on forever because they\u2019re carry powerful messages. That man\u2019s songs really inspired me in a big way. He\u2019s irreplaceable, no one can sing like him. Every song he did was special because of his unique vocal style.\u201d<\/p>\n
Major Riley recently recorded a song in honor of Peetah Morgan titled \u2018Fly High\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. The song which was produced by him was released by Major Records March 26.<\/p>\n \u201cI had the honor and pleasure of crossing paths with Peetah on several occasions when we performed at the same events. Although he was a star, he was always very humble and easy to talk with. I admired him so much for his tremendous talent and humility, which is why I have recorded this song to pay tribute him.\u201d<\/p>\n Major Riley is currently working on his new album titled \u2018Days of Circumstances\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which is slated to be released later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like so many people around the world Major Riley was in shock and horror when news broke that Peetah Morgan the lead singer of Grammy Award-winning reggae band Morgan Heritage died on February 25. \u201cI was so shocked when I heard the news that Peetah had passed away. I still can\u2019t believe it\u2019s true. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8418","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\/8418","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}