{"id":233,"date":"2010-07-06T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=233"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:32:36","slug":"whos-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/07\/whos-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Bell Bundy"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHO’S NEXT: <\/strong><\/p>\n

LAURA BELL BUNDY<\/h1>\n

\"Laura<\/a><\/p>\n

HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Lexington, Ky.<\/p>\n

INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Pearl Bailey,
\nPatsy Cline, Willie Nelson<\/p>\n

ALBUM:<\/strong> Achin\u2019 and Shakin\u2019<\/em>, <\/em>out now<\/p>\n

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

FOR LAURA BELL BUNDY, THE ROAD TO NASHVILLE BEGAN in New York City. She had been performing country music for several years, but caught the attention of Music City as the Tony-nominated star of Broadway musicals like Legally Blonde<\/em>, Hairspray<\/em> and Wicked<\/em>. She set aside that burgeoning career to move to Nashville in 2008 and pursue the life in country music that she always wanted. Now her major-label debut, Achin\u2019 and Shakin<\/em>\u2019, finds her fulfilling that dream at last.<\/p>\n

The Kentucky native grew up listening to her mother\u2019s country music collection, and has been acting and singing professionally since childhood. She moved to New York with her mom after landing a part in Radio City Music Hall\u2019s Christmas Spectacular, which she followed with roles onstage in Ruthless, The Musical!<\/em> and the TV soap Guiding Light.<\/em> After attending high school in Kentucky, she returned to New York at age 18 and resumed her musical theater career.<\/p>\n

Once there, she and her then-roommate formed a country duo and began performing around the city. \u201cIn the meantime, I got Hairspray<\/em> and Wicked<\/em>, and honestly, that\u2019s how I supported myself,\u201d she says. \u201cI moved to New York and my intention was to have a music career, not to do Broadway. For me, it was like I had two different baskets of eggs, and one was the acting basket and the other was the music basket\u2014and the acting basket of eggs hatched first.\u201d Now that the other basket of eggs has hatched, so to speak, she is happy to be pursuing her musical career full-time at last. \u201cSongwriting and recording is my passion,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is my love. There\u2019s a part of myself that has come out that I really like, and it\u2019s very important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO’S NEXT: LAURA BELL BUNDY HOMETOWN: Lexington, Ky. INFLUENCES: Pearl Bailey, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson ALBUM: Achin\u2019 and Shakin\u2019, out now WEBSITE: laurabellbundy.com FOR LAURA BELL BUNDY, THE ROAD TO NASHVILLE BEGAN in New York City. She had been performing country music for several years, but caught the attention of Music City as the Tony-nominated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[853,854,93,856,70,851,852,10160,855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}