{"id":204,"date":"2010-07-06T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:38:28","slug":"whos-next-daniel-merriweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/07\/whos-next-daniel-merriweather\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Merriweather"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHO’S NEXT: <\/strong><\/p>\n

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER<\/h1>\n
\"Daniel<\/a>

Daniel Merriweather<\/p><\/div>\n

HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n

INFLUENCES:<\/strong> D\u2019Angelo, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder<\/p>\n

ALBUM:<\/strong> Love & War<\/em>, out Feb. 23<\/p>\n

WEBSITE:<\/strong> danielmerriweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER WAS FIRST DRAWN TO MUSIC
\nat age 4, when he discovered his mother\u2019s violin. Soon he was playing Vivaldi and Bach concertos, but at 10 he was nudged toward R&B music by his discovery of Boyz II Men\u2019s Cooleyhighharmony<\/em>. \u201cThat album pretty much taught me how to sing,\u201d he says. \u201cI knew every note of every song.\u201d Eventually he dropped out of high school to pursue a musical career. \u201cIt was either singing or deep-frying chicken at KFC,\u201d he jokes. \u201cI was really lucky to be able to do what I love for a living. Things weren\u2019t looking too good there for a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merriweather first caught the public\u2019s attention as the singer on producer Mark Ronson\u2019s UK hit version of the Smiths\u2019 \u201cStop Me if You\u2019ve Heard This One Before\u201d in 2007. His Ronson-produced debut album is already a hit overseas ahead of its imminent arrival on American shores. Like several of Ronson\u2019s other productions, Love & War<\/em> heavily features the backing of New York soul band the Dap-Kings. \u201cA lot of the album was made through just letting them interpret and play my songs until it felt good,\u201d says Merriweather. \u201cIt was cool, because the songs I write are very different from songs they would normally play.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a songwriter Merriweather finds inspiration everywhere. \u201cI might be reading a book that inspires a lyric or I\u2019ll hear a piece of music that inspires a chord progression,\u201d he says. \u201cThough people seem to inspire my songwriting the most. I\u2019m fascinated by the human condition, however limited my understanding of it is. Sometimes writing a song is a way of trying to decode human nature and figure out why and what we are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO’S NEXT: DANIEL MERRIWEATHER HOMETOWN: Melbourne, Australia INFLUENCES: D\u2019Angelo, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder ALBUM: Love & War, out Feb. 23 WEBSITE: danielmerriweather.com DANIEL MERRIWEATHER WAS FIRST DRAWN TO MUSIC at age 4, when he discovered his mother\u2019s violin. Soon he was playing Vivaldi and Bach concertos, but at 10 he was nudged toward R&B music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[86,32,891,890,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}