{"id":5746,"date":"2025-05-14T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/cecil-b-the-artist-drops-cover-over-the-hills\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:20:08","slug":"cecil-b-the-artist-drops-cover-over-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/cecil-b-the-artist-drops-cover-over-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecil B The Artist drops cover \u2018Over The Hills\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">New York-based, Jamaican-born Cecil<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> B <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Artist says a cover of Luciano\u2019s \u201cOver The Hills\u201d is scheduled for release this month. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cecil<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> B <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said he and producer Ricky Myrie have been crafting songs in multiple recording sessions in New York for the past year. One of the tracks from those collaborations, \u201cThis Love,\u201d was released in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cecil B told <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Caribbean Life<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on Monday, May 12, that both songs will be on his debut album, which is expected to be out late this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe have put in the work, and I\u2019m very excited about the sound- the way it came out,\u201d he said. \u201cRicky is very detailed in his work, very particular about keys and all of that, and things came out beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Growing up in St. Mary, Jamaica, Cecil B. The Artist, the son of a shoemaker, watched his father meticulously repair many footwear. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said that attention to detail has \u201ca lifelong impact\u201d on him as a singer\/musician and airbrush artist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The self-taught bass guitarist said he played in several bands in Jamaica and New York. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While active on the stage, Cecil B The Artist said his recording career has been \u201csporadic,\u201d with \u201cThis Love\u201d only his second released single in 13 years. In 2012, he recorded his first song, \u201cToo Much Violence In The Streets.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cMy music is really reaching out to everyone, no matter what age group you are,\u201d Cecil<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> B <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said. \u201cIt\u2019s about the message, about upliftment, encouragement, love, and understanding\u2026progress.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based, Jamaican-born Cecil B The Artist says a cover of Luciano\u2019s \u201cOver The Hills\u201d is scheduled for release this month. Cecil B said he and producer Ricky Myrie have been crafting songs in multiple recording sessions in New York for the past year. One of the tracks from those collaborations, \u201cThis Love,\u201d was released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}