{"id":73246,"date":"2024-02-26T07:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T04:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=73246"},"modified":"2024-02-26T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T04:53:20","slug":"morgan-heritage-lead-singer-peetah-morgan-dies-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/morgan-heritage-lead-singer-peetah-morgan-dies-at-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Heritage lead singer Peetah Morgan dies at 47"},"content":{"rendered":"

By sQoop<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peter \u201cPeetah\u201d Morgan, lead singer of the Reggae group Morgan Heritage, has died at the age of 47.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Grammy Award-winning band, known for songs such as\u00a0\u2018Don\u2019t Haffi Dread\u2019 (To Be Rasta)<\/i>,\u00a0\u2018Down by the River<\/i>\u2018\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018She\u2019s Still Loving Me<\/i>\u2018, announced Peetah\u2019s passing on Sunday, February 25, but did not disclose the cause of death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family mourned the passing of its patriarch and veteran Reggae singer Denroy Morgan, who fathered 30 children.<\/p>\n

Denroy\u2019s children formed several groups, including Morgan Heritage, which initially comprised Peter \u201cPeetah\u201d Morgan, Una Morgan, Roy \u201cGramps\u201d Morgan, Nakhamyah \u201cLukes\u201d Morgan, and Memmalatel \u201cMr. Mojo\u201d Morgan. Una Morgan and Lukes Morgan are now past members.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is out of sincere love that we share that our beloved husband, father, son, and brother and lead singer of Morgan Heritage Peter Anthony Morgan has ascended today,\u201d the group wrote in an Instagram post.\u00a0 \u201cJah come and save from ourselves because love is only way.\u201d Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By sQoop Peter \u201cPeetah\u201d Morgan, lead singer of the Reggae group Morgan Heritage, has died at the age of 47. The Grammy Award-winning band, known for songs such as\u00a0\u2018Don\u2019t Haffi Dread\u2019 (To Be Rasta),\u00a0\u2018Down by the River\u2018\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018She\u2019s Still Loving Me\u2018, announced Peetah\u2019s passing on Sunday, February 25, but did not disclose the cause of death. The family mourned the passing of its patriarch and veteran Reggae singer Denroy Morgan, who fathered 30 children. Denroy\u2019s children formed several groups, including Morgan Heritage, which initially comprised Peter \u201cPeetah\u201d Morgan, Una Morgan, Roy \u201cGramps\u201d Morgan, Nakhamyah \u201cLukes\u201d Morgan, and Memmalatel \u201cMr. Mojo\u201d Morgan. Una Morgan and Lukes Morgan are now past members. \u201cIt is out of sincere love that we share that our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":73247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}