{"id":8524,"date":"2024-04-26T05:13:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2024-04-26T05:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:17:18","slug":"danette-the-butterfly-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"Danette the Butterfly Girl!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recording artist since 2012, Danette Mahabeer-Turner can spot a potential song just by looking at it. Her writer\u2019s instinct kicked in while she was working on a project in January, and within a month, she cut <strong><em>\u2018Caterpillar to A Butterfly\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That song, produced by MBMG The Studio, was released in March. It was sparked by a drawing of a butterfly the Kentucky-based singjay saw while assembling items for a vision board.<\/p>\n<p>In a matter of days, she came up with what became the hook and chorus for <strong><em>\u2018Caterpillar to A Butterfly\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a catchy dancehall song which features her seven-year-old daughter Soheila London and American rapper Sir Duke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecording the song with my daughter was a life-changing moment for both of us. I wanted her to be a part of it and it made her so excited. We had fun and to my surprise she nailed it the very first time she hit the recording booth,\u201d Mahabeer-Turner explained.<\/p>\n<p>A community activist in Paducah, Kentucky, Mahabeer-Turner hosts the Voiced Thoughts Talk Show And Podcast, on which she gives advice on diverse issues, including to persons who have suffered domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>From Clarendon parish in Jamaica, she previously recorded as Lady Genius and appeared on major events in Jamaica such as the 2015 Jazz and Blues Festival. Her best-known song is a reggae version of Alicia Keys <strong><em>\u2018No One\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recording artist since 2012, Danette Mahabeer-Turner can spot a potential song just by looking at it. Her writer\u2019s instinct kicked in while she was working on a project in January, and within a month, she cut \u2018Caterpillar to A Butterfly\u2019. That song, produced by MBMG The Studio, was released in March. It was sparked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","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\/8524","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=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}