{"id":3363,"date":"2024-02-26T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:02:31","slug":"peter-morgan-of-morgan-heritage-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Peter Morgan Of Morgan Heritage Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lead Singer of Grammy Award-winning reggae group, Morgan Heritage, Peter Anthony Morgan has passed away on February 23 at age 46.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Morgan Family disclosed this in a statement to announce the death of their beloved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is out of sincere love that we share that our beloved father, son and brother and lead singer of Morgan Heritage, Peter Anthony Morgan has ascended today, February 23,\u201d the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The family asked that its privacy be respected during this time of their healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-5f84ee50afcd98ff729c1c7907063746 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZYEH7EMB3c?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Morgan, known as \u201cPeetah,\u201d started Morgan Heritage with\u00a0seven of his siblings\u00a0in the 1994. The band later became a quintet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Heritage-family-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Heritage-family-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Heritage-family-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Heritage-family-750x1060.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Heritage-family.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some early albums, including \u201cProtect Us Jah\u201d (1997) and&nbsp;\u201cDon\u2019t Haffi Dread\u201d&nbsp;(1999), Morgan Heritage worked with&nbsp;Bobby Digital, one of Jamaica\u2019s most influential producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before a show at New York City\u2019s Irving Plaza in 1999, a New York Times music critic&nbsp;wrote&nbsp;that the band \u201cholds on to the 1970s reggae traditions of harmony singing and thoughtful messages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the 2015 Grammys, the band\u2019s album \u201cStrictly Roots\u201d won for Best Reggae Album of the year. Its album \u201cAvrakedabra\u201d was up for the same award two years later, but lost out to \u201cStony Hill\u201d by Damian Marley, a son of Bob Marley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead Singer of Grammy Award-winning reggae group, Morgan Heritage, Peter Anthony Morgan has passed away on February 23 at age 46. The Morgan Family disclosed this in a statement to announce the death of their beloved. \u201cIt is out of sincere love that we share that our beloved father, son and brother and lead singer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1119,1118],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-morgan-heritage","tag-peter-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}