{"id":11731,"date":"2014-03-20T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:23:37","slug":"cody-karey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2014\/03\/cody-karey\/","title":{"rendered":"CODY KAREY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11732\" alt=\"cody-karey-Issue-No31\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cody-karey-Issue-No31.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cody-karey-Issue-No31.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cody-karey-Issue-No31-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>CODY KAREY<\/h1>\n<p><b>HOMETOWN:<\/b> Fort St. James, B.C., Canada<br \/>\n<b>INFLUENCES:<\/b> Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli,\u00a0Alan Jackson<br \/>\n<b>ALBUM:<\/b> <i>Cody Karey<\/i>, out now<br \/>\n<b>WEBSITE:<\/b> codykarey.com<\/p>\n<p>Clad in cowboy boots and jeans he\u2019d been given by his grandmother, British Columbia native Cody Karey began performing at age 6. As a teen, he shifted musical styles from country to traditional pop. \u201cI was pretty certain that was the music I wanted to do,\u201d he says, \u201cwhich was certainly weird for a kid from hockey-loving B.C. I never had the opportunity to get a world-class education in how to sing this kind of music.\u201d After reaching the finals of a talent show hosted by Grammy-winning producer David Foster, Karey, 23, signed with Verve Records, and served as opening act for the Three Tenors and Andrea Bocelli. Produced by Foster, Karey\u2019s self-titled debut album includes songs in Italian and Spanish. \u201cPeople love the romance of relying on the performance to tell them what an artist is trying to say, without necessarily understanding all the words,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve always been someone who connects with chords and rhythm more than lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CODY KAREY HOMETOWN: Fort St. James, B.C., Canada INFLUENCES: Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli,\u00a0Alan Jackson ALBUM: Cody Karey, out now WEBSITE: codykarey.com Clad in cowboy boots and jeans he\u2019d been given by his grandmother, British Columbia native Cody Karey began performing at age 6. As a teen, he shifted musical styles from country to traditional pop. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[7330,7331,7328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}