{"id":5869,"date":"2023-09-28T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:01:53","slug":"single-review-turn-it-up-onika-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/single-review-turn-it-up-onika-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Turn It Up&#8221; Onika Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/58Fx4ZBlrS6xM0JzHr1c7v?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>Ahhh a bit of reggae! Again, with that 70s vibe the latter part of the Faves has such a retro feel, and as we squeeze out the last dregs of the summer we might as well have some sunshine in the tunes to give it a lift.<\/p>\n<p>The intro challenges us to turn it up, I certainly did and I\u2019m happy I did.\u00a0The vocals are well rounded, against a backdrop of bass, drums, percussion and a horn section. Is that a sleigh bell?<\/p>\n<p>Must be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Onika Venus<\/strong> is a singer and songwriter from South Manchester in Jamaica, now based in the Forest of Dean.<\/p>\n<p>A seasoned performer, Onika has worked with the likes of Seanie B from BBC1 Xtra, Tubby T and Miss Dynamite (under the stage name Lady Posh), and fronted the band Slyde, who were nominated best new act at The Breakbeat Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"856\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_D5461892D92B-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_D5461892D92B-1.jpeg 853w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_D5461892D92B-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_D5461892D92B-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_D5461892D92B-1-768x771.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_D5461892D92B-1-60x60.jpeg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh a bit of reggae! Again, with that 70s vibe the latter part of the Faves has such a retro feel, and as we squeeze out the last dregs of the summer we might as well have some sunshine in the tunes to give it a lift. The intro challenges us to turn it up, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,129,52,31,132,30,37,297,140,73,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bass","category-drums","category-guitar","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-piano","category-reggae","category-review","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}