{"id":113732,"date":"2016-01-10T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingston12.net\/?p=113732"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:25:25","slug":"clay-clay-list-right-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2016\/01\/10\/clay-clay-list-right-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"CLAY: Clay List &#8211; Right on Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clay (born Clayton Morrison on August 9, 1982 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a classically trained pianist, music producer, song writer and reggae singer. He currently resides and record out of the United Kingdom. In his short years in the music business he has established himself as brilliant artist\/songwriter\/producer \u2013 working with artists such as The Neptunes (currently produced by Pharrell), Teddy Riley and Timbaland. Clay\u2019s body of work (client list) include labels such as Sony Music, Atlantic Records, WEA, VP Records and Avex &amp; Pony Canyon (both Japanese companies)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clay2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-113733 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clay2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Clay\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clay2-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clay2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clay2-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn addition to the piano, the very versatile Clay also plays drums and guitar. He is described as \u201chaving an incredible ear for music \u2013 with no boundaries or limits on genre\u201d. Clay is as comfortable with Hip Hop, R &amp; B and Pop as he is with his chosen genre \u2013 reggae and is rapidly becoming an artists\u2019 favorite artist.\u00a0 He has established his own Calybeat label which he describe as half of his first name and \u201cI like clay because a potter uses it and molds it into something beautiful and since I make music and can mold sounds into a beautiful song, the marriage of Clay and Beat work well\u201d. On Claybeat he has developed a unique sound that works as easily for Sean Pauls\u2019s <strong><em>Hold My Hand<\/em><\/strong> as it works for Timbaland Hip Hop sound, the Chipmunk\u2019s <strong><em>Pray for Me<\/em><\/strong> or his latest release-<strong><em>Can I Have My Heart Back<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While Clay is still busy stamping the Claybeat \u201csignature\u201d a number of projects, his solo career has really taken off and he has become part of both radio playlists and the dancehall scene in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe with songs such as <strong><em>Fire, Life, London Town and Shadow after Dark<\/em><\/strong>. His latest five-track EP titled <strong><em>Clay-List<\/em><\/strong> include potential hits such as <strong><em>Late than Never<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Still the Same <\/em><\/strong>and two of this writer\u2019s favorites- <strong><em>Clean Hands and Dirty Heart &amp; Wolf Inna Sheep Clothe<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\nHe describes his personal goal as simply \u201cmake great music that inspires people and to maintain a balance in his life\u201d. You can checkout his music a Blog at reggaepromo.weebly.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay (born Clayton Morrison on August 9, 1982 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a classically trained pianist, music producer, song writer and reggae singer. He currently resides and record out of the United Kingdom. In his short years in the music business he has established himself as brilliant artist\/songwriter\/producer \u2013 working&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,59,60,120,1],"tags":[308,309,13],"class_list":["post-113732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-feature","category-artists","category-artists-on-the-radar","category-posts","category-uncategorized","tag-clay","tag-clay-list","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clay2-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114269,"url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2017\/01\/06\/kingston12s-top-fifty-50-reggae-songs-for-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":113732,"position":0},"title":"Kingston12&#039;s Top Fifty (50) Reggae Songs for 2016","author":"Sydney","date":"January 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Song Title Artist\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Label \u00a0 Rise Up (Ft. 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