{"id":11823,"date":"2021-12-10T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2021-12-18T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T02:07:16","slug":"robbie-shakespeare-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/10\/robbie-shakespeare-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Shakespeare Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/latestnews\/Robbie_Shakespeare_has_died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Jamaica Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robbie Shakespeare has died<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7U4nm0Vvcz8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>POPULAR bass guitarist Robbie Shakespeare of &#8216;Riddim Twins&#8217; Sly and Robbie is dead. He passed away earlier Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, Shakespeare was ailing for sometime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Robbie&#8217;s loss will be severely felt by the industry at home and abroad. My condolences to those he leaves behind,&#8221; said Olivia &#8220;Babsy&#8221; Grange, Minister of Entertainment and Culture, in a release sent to the Jamaica Observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the 1980s, Sly and Robbie worked with some of the biggest and brightest names in pop. Among them, Grace Jones, Joe Cocker, Gwen Guthrie and rapper KRS 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their patented sound ensured mainstream interest in Jamaican music following the death of Bob Marley in 1981. Indeed, they were the driving force behind Black Uhuru, a Waterhouse group marketed by Island Records, the company that helped break Marley&#8217;s music internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/latestnews\/Robbie_Shakespeare_has_died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Jamaica Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Jamaica Observer Robbie Shakespeare has died POPULAR bass guitarist Robbie Shakespeare of &#8216;Riddim Twins&#8217; Sly and Robbie is dead. He passed away earlier Wednesday. According to sources, Shakespeare was ailing for sometime. &#8220;Robbie&#8217;s loss will be severely felt by the industry at home and abroad. My condolences to those he leaves behind,&#8221; said Olivia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}