{"id":8591,"date":"2008-10-23T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/jay-sean-in-bid-for-american-stardom\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:38:22","slug":"jay-sean-in-bid-for-american-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/jay-sean-in-bid-for-american-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Sean in bid for American stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Singer signs to US label ahead of album release<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"215\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/JaySeanLilWayne_232x180.jpg\"\/>BRITISH R&amp;B star Jay Sean is setting his sights on cracking the notoriously difficult American market after he was snapped up by a US label.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The ex-medical student will be represented stateside by Cash Money Records \u2013 the label that has made Lil Wayne one of the biggest rap stars in the world. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Bosses at the label will handle the release of Jay\u2019s album \u2018My Own Way\u2019 next spring. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a dream for me to sign to an American label. And it\u2019s great to be accepted by the best in the game,\u201d Jay said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Jay has just returned from Miami where he finalised the deal with bosses at Cash Money Records.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Billy Grant, head of Jay\u2019s management company 2Point9 said the deal was \u201cgreat news for British black music\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added: &#8220;Six years of hard work has really paid off. Jay has developed into a fantastic artist and this has been acknowledged by America&#8217;s most successful record label&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Jay will attend the European MTV Awards with Lil Wayne next month while the later will also feature on a remix of Jay\u2019s forthcoming single \u2018Tonight.\u2019<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer signs to US label ahead of album release BRITISH R&amp;B star Jay Sean is setting his sights on cracking the notoriously difficult American market after he was snapped up by a US label. &#13; The ex-medical student will be represented stateside by Cash Money Records \u2013 the label that has made Lil Wayne one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}