{"id":12335,"date":"2014-06-22T00:58:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2014-06-22T00:58:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T07:58:54","slug":"yonas-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2014\/06\/yonas-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"YONAS MICHAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12336\" alt=\"M-32-yonas-michael\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/M-32-yonas-michael.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/M-32-yonas-michael.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/M-32-yonas-michael-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>YONAS MICHAEL<\/h1>\n<p><b>HOMETOWN:<\/b> Seattle, Wash.<br \/>\n<b>INFLUENCES:<\/b> Michael Jackson, the Roots,\u00a0Wu-Tang Clan<br \/>\n<b>ALBUM:<\/b> <i>The Black Swan Theory<\/i>, out 2014<br \/>\n<b>WEBSITE:<\/b> yonasmichael.com<\/p>\n<p>Enamored of his grandmother\u2019s extensive vinyl collection, Yonas Michael spent his early years practicing Michael Jackson\u2019s signature dance moves. When he was a teenager, Michael\u2019s family moved to the L.A. suburbs and he immersed himself in the world of hip-hop. After performing in talent shows around Southern California, he joined high school classmate Yannick Koffi (stage name Thurzday) to form the duo U-N-I in 2006. \u201cWe built a name, a fan base and a foundation,\u201d he says. \u201cThere were a lot of ups and downs, but it helped me grow as an artist.\u201d On his new album, <i>The Black Swan Theory<\/i>, Michael incorporates a range of musical styles including rock, electronic and funk to establish a new and entirely different identity. \u201cThe black swan theory basically represents a surprise to the observer,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s something that is rationalized in hindsight and eventually changes everything. I\u2019m implementing elements that I grew up on into my own sound and cooking up something unprecedented in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YONAS MICHAEL HOMETOWN: Seattle, Wash. INFLUENCES: Michael Jackson, the Roots,\u00a0Wu-Tang Clan ALBUM: The Black Swan Theory, out 2014 WEBSITE: yonasmichael.com Enamored of his grandmother\u2019s extensive vinyl collection, Yonas Michael spent his early years practicing Michael Jackson\u2019s signature dance moves. When he was a teenager, Michael\u2019s family moved to the L.A. suburbs and he immersed himself [&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":[7403,7408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335"}],"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=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12337,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/12337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}