{"id":15429,"date":"2024-01-12T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/alton-ellis-my-time-honouring-one-of-jamaicas-singer-songwriter-rest-in-eternal-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:52:50","slug":"alton-ellis-my-time-honouring-one-of-jamaicas-singer-songwriter-rest-in-eternal-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/alton-ellis-my-time-honouring-one-of-jamaicas-singer-songwriter-rest-in-eternal-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Alton Ellis &#8211; &quot;My Time&quot; &#8211;  Honouring one of Jamaica&#39;s singer\/songwriter &#8211; Rest In Eternal Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Alton Ellis - &quot;My Time&quot; -  Honouring one of Jamaica&#039;s singer\/songwriter - Rest In Eternal Peace\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npJwS0k3gTo?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Alton Nehemiah Ellis OD (1 September 1938 \u2013 10 October 2008) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter. One of the innovators of Rocksteady who was given the informal title &#8220;Godfather of Rocksteady&#8221;. In 2006, he was inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame. Born in Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica, Ellis was raised within a musical family which included his older brothers Leslie [who performed as one of his back up singers and co-wrote some of his songs], and Irving [known as &#8216;Niney&#8217;] who was a popular singer and steel pan player on Jamaica&#8217;s North Coast. He learned to play the piano at a young age. He attended Ebeneezer and Boys&#8217; Town schools, where he excelled in both music and sport. While at Boys&#8217; Town, Alton Ellis performed as a dancer (in a duo) in the first show that a school director called Mr Bailey had organized for Vere Johns who had been invited down to talent scout. He would later compete on Vere Johns&#8217; Opportunity Hour. After winning some competitions, he switched to singing, starting his career in 1959 as part of the duo Alton &#038; Eddy with Eddy Parkins.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=npJwS0k3gTo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alton Nehemiah Ellis OD (1 September 1938 \u2013 10 October 2008) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter. One of the innovators of Rocksteady who was given the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3804],"tags":[14483,14480,14484,14490,14487,5084,14488,12,2302,14485,14489,14482,2095,14481,10974,14486],"class_list":["post-15429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-alton","tag-alton-ellis","tag-ellis","tag-eternal","tag-honouring","tag-jamaica","tag-jamaica39s","tag-music","tag-peace","tag-quotmy","tag-rest","tag-rock-steady","tag-singersongwriter","tag-soul-of-jamaica","tag-studio-one","tag-timequot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}