{"id":249,"date":"2010-03-29T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyanalive.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-06-17T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:50:31","slug":"guyana-artistic-music-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Artistic Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zebulun De Counselor is coming home<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebulan.jpg\" alt=\"Zebulan\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/>The artiste Zebulun De Counselor might not be among the more popular names announced, following a selection on local radio but it certainly is a name getting recognition internationally in the reggae and culture music realm.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he is a 2010 New Jersey Reggae Music Awards winner and has confirmed that he will be among the Guyanese artistes in the diaspora heading home as a nominee at the upcoming Guyana Artistic Music Awards slated for April 25 at the National Cultural Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Zebulun De Counselor has been writing and performing music for over 16 years. Born and raised in Guyana, he moved to the United States in 1989 where he spent a few years in the sound system business on Jah Legacy Sound.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Zebulun returned to his first love; recording music. He joined up with Sharp Edge Studio, then RockStar Studio out of New Jersey and produced multiple singles.<\/p>\n<p>The first was &#8220;Give Praises&#8221; which was featured on the Onward Riddim. Artists such as Capleton, Richie Spice and Les were also featured on the album. Zebulun&#8217;s &#8220;Give Praises&#8221; was added into rotation after about a month on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you cold girl&#8221; was the second single to hit the airwaves, this song gave him a sudden surge of popularity around the tri-state area (NYC, NJ, CT). Without the support of a major record label its hard to penetrate the Jamaican market. However, &#8220;Give Praise&#8221; is the single that is breaking international waters. Although it has taken more than a decade to reach this level, Zebulun never lost his faith that it would happen. &#8220;Righteous music is positive music, at the end of the day righteousness stands&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>With his love for Rastafari and life itself, Zebulun&#8217;s future looks bright. To date, Zebulun has about 25 singles and each one has found a place in the hearts of the people who love Zebulun&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Mondale Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zebulun De Counselor is coming home The artiste Zebulun De Counselor might not be among the more popular names announced, following a selection on local radio but it certainly is a name getting recognition internationally in the reggae and culture music realm. In fact, he is a 2010 New Jersey Reggae Music Awards winner and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/?p=249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guyana Artistic Music Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[658,238,286],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-gama","tag-zebulun-de-counselor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}