{"id":248,"date":"2010-07-06T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T01:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:31:07","slug":"whos-next-nikki-yanofsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/07\/whos-next-nikki-yanofsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Yanofsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHO&#8217;S NEXT: <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>NIKKI YANOFSKY<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/whos-next-Nikki-Yanofsky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-249\" title=\"whos-next-Nikki-Yanofsky\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/whos-next-Nikki-Yanofsky.jpg\" alt=\"Nikki Yanofsky\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/whos-next-Nikki-Yanofsky.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/whos-next-Nikki-Yanofsky-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Montreal, Quebec<\/p>\n<p><strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Ella Fitzgerald,<br \/>\nAretha Franklin, \t\t\tBillie Holiday<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Nikki<\/em>, out now<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/nikkionline.ca\" target=\"_blank\">nikkionline.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THINGS HAVE MOVED QUICKLY FOR NIKKI YANOFSKY-AT 12 she was singing in front of 100,000 people at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, by 13 she had been nominated for a Juno award (Canada\u2019s equivalent to the Grammys), and at 16 she\u2019s just released her debut studio album, <em>Nikki<\/em>. she began singing as a child, and knew even then she wanted to perform for a living. she began listening to jazz in her early teens, keying in especially on the music of Ella Fitzgerald\u2014in 2008 she released a live album of Fitzgerald songs, <em>Ella \u2026 of Thee I Swing<\/em>. <em>Nikki<\/em> was produced by grammy winners Phil Ramone and Jesse Harris, and features a mix of standards and original songs written by Yanofsky with Harris and singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith. \u201cThe album is very personal, and allows the listener to get to know me,\u201d she says. \u201cyou hear where i came from through the musical influences, and you hear where i\u2019m going through the originals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO&#8217;S NEXT: NIKKI YANOFSKY HOMETOWN: Montreal, Quebec INFLUENCES: Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday ALBUM: Nikki, out now WEBSITE: nikkionline.ca THINGS HAVE MOVED QUICKLY FOR NIKKI YANOFSKY-AT 12 she was singing in front of 100,000 people at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, by 13 she had been nominated for a Juno award (Canada\u2019s equivalent to [&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":[844,80,843,99,98,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}