{"id":1357,"date":"2010-09-12T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:27:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:27:17","slug":"whos-next-christina-perri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/09\/whos-next-christina-perri\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Perri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHO&#8217;S NEXT: <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>CHRISTINA PERRI<\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whosnext-christina-perri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1358\" title=\"whosnext-christina-perri\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whosnext-christina-perri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whosnext-christina-perri.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whosnext-christina-perri-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> The Beatles, Beth Hart, Jason Mraz<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> As yet untitled EP,<br \/>\ndue out soon<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/christinaperri.com\" target=\"_blank\">christinaperri.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christina Perri began singing at a very early age, both in her school choir and for customers in her parents\u2019 barber shop. By 15 she was so devoted to the music of the Beatles that she had the members\u2019 names tattooed permanently on her wrist.\u00a0Her older brother Nick Perri made his name playing guitar in the band Shinedown, and she picked up the guitar soon after he left home. She began writing songs, and moved to Los Angeles three years ago to pursue a musical career of her own. There she got\u00a0work singing on songwriting demos and TV commercial jingles.\u00a0Her big break came in June when her song \u201cJar of Hearts\u201d\u00a0was featured on TV\u2019s <em>So You Think You Can Dance<\/em>\u2014and promptly sold more than 100,000 downloads on iTunes. Labels immediately came knocking, and she signed with Atlantic Records\u00a0on July 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO&#8217;S NEXT: CHRISTINA PERRI HOMETOWN: Philadelphia INFLUENCES: The Beatles, Beth Hart, Jason Mraz ALBUM: As yet untitled EP, due out soon WEBSITE: christinaperri.com Christina Perri began singing at a very early age, both in her school choir and for customers in her parents\u2019 barber shop. By 15 she was so devoted to the music of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[837,834,840,835,623,838,839,836,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}