{"id":11160,"date":"2010-07-12T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2010-07-12T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:52:26","slug":"sugar-minott-dies-aged-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Minott dies aged 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jamaican singer and producer Sugar Minott has died at the age of 54.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His wife said he died at University Hospital, Kingston, but did not say how he died. He cancelled gigs in Canada in May because of chest pains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The singer, real name Lincoln Barrington Minott, launched his career in the late 1960s as part of reggae trio The African Brothers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had a number four hit in the UK in March 1981 with Good Thing Going, a cover of a Michael Jackson song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minott launched a solo career in the 1970s and recorded for the famed Studio One label.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He built a following in the dancehalls of Jamaica and recorded songs including Vanity, Mr DC and House Is Not A Home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He went on to nurture new talent with his own Black Roots and Youth Promotion labels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Youth Promotion artist Junior Reid said: &#8220;Sugar Minott was a man who gave a lot of strength to the music although he got no love from the business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new album from Minott, New Day, is due to be released &#8220;soon&#8221;, according to his website.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican singer and producer Sugar Minott has died at the age of 54. His wife said he died at University Hospital, Kingston, but did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191,1],"tags":[4124],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-sugar-minott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}