{"id":14454,"date":"2015-06-22T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=14454"},"modified":"2015-06-22T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:34:58","slug":"jchelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2015\/06\/jchelle\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u2019CHELLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14455\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/41-feature-j-chelle.jpg\" alt=\"41-feature-j-chelle\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/41-feature-j-chelle.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/41-feature-j-chelle-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>J\u2019CHELLE<\/h1>\n<p><b>HOMETOWN:<\/b> Long Beach, Calif.<br \/>\n<b>INFLUENCES:<\/b> Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder<br \/>\n<b>ALBUM:<\/b> <i>J\u2019Chelle<\/i>, TBA<br \/>\n<b>WEBSITE:<\/b> jchelle.com<\/p>\n<p>J\u2019Chelle was preparing to enter law school when her life took a dramatic turn\u2014she auditioned for <i>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/i>. While the singer-songwriter born J\u2019Chelle Magbitang, only made it to the week three semifinals, she became a background vocalist on<i> American Idol<\/i>, supporting acts like Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan and Mariah Carey, who encouraged J\u2019Chelle to dream big: \u201cMariah told me, \u2018Don\u2019t give up. I was once a background singer too!\u2019\u201d Those words set J\u2019Chelle on the path to recording her debut album of self-penned urban pop-rock songs, to be released this year. \u201cI live what I love,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery second of every day goes toward making music. It\u2019s not money or fame that pushes me to work hard.\u201d J\u2019Chelle, 30, has also created an artist development program to teach aspiring musicians skills to help them compete in the business. \u201cI hope to inspire and empower others the way music has inspired and empowered me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u2019CHELLE HOMETOWN: Long Beach, Calif. INFLUENCES: Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder ALBUM: J\u2019Chelle, TBA WEBSITE: jchelle.com J\u2019Chelle was preparing to enter law school when her life took a dramatic turn\u2014she auditioned for America\u2019s Got Talent. While the singer-songwriter born J\u2019Chelle Magbitang, only made it to the week three semifinals, she became a background vocalist [&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":[7619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454"}],"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=14454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14456,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions\/14456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}