{"id":119433,"date":"2025-03-13T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/13\/stings-happy-to-re-team-with-shaggy-on-new-reggae-single-the-world-needs-some-joy-at-the-moment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:01:14","slug":"stings-happy-to-re-team-with-shaggy-on-new-reggae-single-the-world-needs-some-joy-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/13\/stings-happy-to-re-team-with-shaggy-on-new-reggae-single-the-world-needs-some-joy-at-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting’s happy to re-team with Shaggy on new reggae single: ‘The world needs some joy at the moment”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sting<\/strong> and reggae superstar Shaggy<\/strong>\u00a0won a Grammy in 2019 for their reggae album\u00a044\/876. <\/em>Now they’re back with\u00a0a new single, “Til A Mawnin<\/a>,” which they’ll perform live Thursday at St. Petersburg, Florida’s Reggae Rise Up Festival. Sting says in a world full of “misery,” he’s happy to sing a song so “joyful.”<\/p>\n

“Shaggy came to me a few months ago with it,” Sting tells ABC Audio. “I said, ‘Man, this is not only a great vibe and a great beat, but actually, it’s a beautiful melody he’s asking me to sing.’ So I was more than happy to join him again in our little partnership, which … I love.”<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a very joyful song,” he adds. “I mean, let’s face it — the world needs some joy at the moment. It’s nothing but misery out there.”<\/p>\n

While Sting and Shaggy may seem like an odd pair, the “It Wasn’t Me” artist says crowds seem to “really love” their “banter” onstage.<\/p>\n

“We do a couple of new songs together, and sometimes he sings a little bit of mine, I sing a little bit of his, but it’s just the energy with both of us going back and forth that people seem to enjoy,” he notes.<\/p>\n

And for Sting, reggae’s not a new thing, of course:\u00a0it was part of many songs by\u00a0The Police<\/strong>. He notes that most British people his age grew up with that musical genre.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a very influential West Indian community in England since the end of WWII, so it’s part of our culture … it’s something that we consider to be ours, as much as it’s Jamaican,” he says.<\/p>\n

As for a new joint album, Shaggy tells ABC Audio, “He actually suggested the other day, he says, why don’t you just write it and I sing it? I was like, ‘Nah.’ I kind of want to sit with him on it because there’s so [many] things that he brings to it that [are] so unique, y’know?”\u00a0<\/p>\n