These are busy times for Wayne Wonder. Over 30 years since he scored his first hit single, the singer is still on the hunt for chart success with a flurry of new releases.<\/p>\n
His latest songs are collaborations: \u2018Tun Up\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is done with DJ Kumaar, \u2018The One\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (with DJ Norie and Shaggy) \u2018Ruba Dub\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (with Supriz) and \u2018Celebration Time\u2019<\/em><\/strong> with Charly Black.\u00a0 \u201cWi jus\u2019 doing the do, bro, di music is global an\u2019 di people appreciate it,\u201d said the wiry vocalist.<\/p>\n Wonder\u2019s initial hit songs, which came during the late 1980s, were covers of American pop singles like PM Dawn\u2019s \u2018Die Without You\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u2018Fast Car\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. In the 1990s, he enjoyed a sustained chart run working with producers Donovan Germain and Dave Kelly, with songs such as \u2018Baby You And I\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Saddest Day of My Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Joyride\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n His biggest hit, \u2018No Letting Go\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, came out in 2002 and has been certified gold (for sales of 500,000) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).<\/p>\n In July, Wayne Wonder heads to Japan for seven shows in Okinawa, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Chiba and Fukuoka. He describes that Asian as one of the biggest markets for his music.<\/p>\n \u201cMy Japanese support is there; I have faithful supporters over di years. Wi blessed with dat, so wi give thanks fi dat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are busy times for Wayne Wonder. Over 30 years since he scored his first hit single, the singer is still on the hunt for chart success with a flurry of new releases. His latest songs are collaborations: \u2018Tun Up\u2019 is done with DJ Kumaar, \u2018The One\u2019 (with DJ Norie and Shaggy) \u2018Ruba Dub\u2019 (with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","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\/8617","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=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}