{"id":3283,"date":"2009-08-18T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2009-08-18T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:24:54","slug":"tra-kz-artist-spotlight-junior-reid-never-let-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2009\/08\/18\/tra-kz-artist-spotlight-junior-reid-never-let-you-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Tra.kz Artist Spotlight: Junior Reid (Never Let You Go)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/onebloodjuniorreid\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3285 aligncenter\" title=\"Junior Reid\" src=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/junior_reid1.jpg\" alt=\"Junior Reid\" width=\"204\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/junior_reid1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/junior_reid1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Jamaica&#8217;s tough West <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Kingston<\/a> Waterhouse district, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/onebloodjuniorreid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Junior Reid<\/a> has been a mainstay of reggae and dance hall music since the 70&#8217;s. Junior may be best known as the lead vocalist of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistsonly.com\/blacku.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\"> Black Uhuru<\/a>, taking over for Michael Rose in 1985; but in the last few years, he has been infiltrating the hip hop scene. Samples of Junior&#8217;s best known hit, &#8220;One Blood,&#8221; have appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wutang-corp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>&#8216;s 2000 album <em>The W<\/em>, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comptongame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">The Game&#8217;s<\/a> song &#8220;It&#8217;s Okay (One Blood).&#8221; Junior has also collaborated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mimsmusic.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Mims<\/a> to create a remix of his hit &#8220;This Is Why I&#8217;m Hot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Junior&#8217;s latest solo album, <em>Living Legend<\/em> is set to be released October 27th of this year, on Bay Area&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">ABB Records<\/a>. To give you a little taste, he has made his new single, <a href=\"http:\/\/tra.kz\/juniorreid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">&#8220;Never Let You Go,&#8221;<\/a> available through Tra.kz for you to <a href=\"http:\/\/tra.kz\/juniorreid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">listen to, download and share!<\/a> After you&#8217;ve listened to it, be sure to say hello to Junior on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iamjrreid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Twitter.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailing from Jamaica&#8217;s tough West Kingston Waterhouse district, Junior Reid has been a mainstay of reggae and dance hall music since the 70&#8217;s. Junior may be best known as the lead vocalist of Black Uhuru, taking over for Michael Rose in 1985; but in the last few years, he has been infiltrating the hip hop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[25,39],"tags":[46,47,246,448,969,1069,1178,1198,1512,1824,2048,1916,1972,1980,2008],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}