{"id":705857,"date":"2026-07-22T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705857\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:40:09","slug":"buju-shines-across-u-s-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705857\/","title":{"rendered":"Buju shines across U.S. media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/iriefm.net\/buju-shines-across-u-s-media\/\" class=\"post-thumbnail\" aria-hidden=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f00ecbff23fc47fcb926128b3e704fa5-800x500-c-default.jpg\" class=\"featured-image tease-featured-image \" alt=\"Buju shines across U.S. media\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grammy-winning reggae icon Buju Banton is making the rounds across the Tri-state area as he continues promoting his 13th studio album, Too Too Bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the Citi Concert Series on NBC\u2019s Today, Buju joined Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones live in Studio 1a, where he delivered a captivating performance of  Butterflies, the lead track from the new album. During his appearance, Buju spoke about the inspiration behind the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gargamel also appeared on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, on Monday, July 20, performing the same track. The performance was elevated by a stage design consisting of sound boxes and crates filled with records celebrating Jamaica\u2019s rich musical heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This marks Buju\u2019s second appearance on The Tonight Show. The reggae icon was a guest in 2020 performing The World is Changing from his critically acclaimed album Upside Down 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning reggae icon Buju Banton is making the rounds across the Tri-state area as he continues promoting his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[234185,234186,96,147631,234187,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-buju-banton","tag-dancehall","tag-entertainment","tag-reggae","tag-too-too-bad","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}