{"id":8453,"date":"2024-04-12T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8453"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:56:35","slug":"lij-amlak-is-out-of-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8453","title":{"rendered":"Lij Amlak is out of Hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a self-imposed, seven-year break from the music business, Lij Amlak returned in February with the self-produced song<strong><em>, \u2018Don\u2019t Hide It\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. It is the first production for his Silk Kulcha Yard Records.<\/p>\n<p>Lij Amlak said during his sabbatical, he followed the advice of veteran music producer Danny Browne, to stop recording songs for multiple producers, and to start his own label which would give him artistic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMi feel great, mi feel mi come a far way. It\u2019s not like one time when yuh have to wait on producers like Bobby Digital, Scorpio or Donovan Germain to record yuh. Things different now through technology,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to producing <strong><em>\u2018Don\u2019t Hide It\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Lil Amlak co-wrote the song with Steve Lindo, best known for writing songs such as <strong><em>\u2018Ghetto People Song\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>by Everton Blender.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Manchester parish in central Jamaica, Lij Amlak is the younger brother of roots-reggae icon Garnet Silk. He was at their mother\u2019s home on December 9, 1994, when she and his famous sibling died in a fire at her home.<\/p>\n<p>Lij Amlak sustained serious burns to his hands in that incident. He remembers it taking an emotional toll on him. \u201cIt get to di level where yuh think yuh going to get mad, it was a crazy thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to <strong><em>\u2018Kingly Character\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Nothing Can Divide Us\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Zion in A Vision\u2019<\/em><\/strong> among his favorite Garnet Silk songs, Lij Amlak has made a name for himself recording songs for persons close to Silk, including Courtney Cole, Tony Rebel and Yasus Afari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a self-imposed, seven-year break from the music business, Lij Amlak returned in February with the self-produced song, \u2018Don\u2019t Hide It\u2019. It is the first production for his Silk Kulcha Yard Records. Lij Amlak said during his sabbatical, he followed the advice of veteran music producer Danny Browne, to stop recording songs for multiple producers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8453","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\/8453","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=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8454,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions\/8454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}