{"id":2910,"date":"2011-08-01T23:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:08:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:08:26","slug":"francesca-battistelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/francesca-battistelli\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2911\" title=\"FRANCESCA-BATTISTELLI-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/FRANCESCA-BATTISTELLI-QandA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/FRANCESCA-BATTISTELLI-QandA.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/FRANCESCA-BATTISTELLI-QandA-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HOMETOWN:<\/strong> New York City<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">INFLUENCES:<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>John Mayer, Nichole Nordeman, \t\tStevie Wonder<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Hundred More Years<\/em>, out now<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">WEBSITE:<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>francescamusic.com<\/p>\n<p>When she wrote and recorded her debut album, 2008\u2019s <em>My Paper Heart<\/em>, all New York native Francesca Battistelli had to worry about was the task at hand. When she went to work on the new follow-up, <em>Hundred More Years<\/em>, she had quite a bit more on her mind. \u201cThis time,\u201d she says, \u201cI remember thinking, \u2018OK, if I can just get through these four things\u2014being pregnant, writing and recording my album, moving to a new city and touring.\u2019\u201d Battistelli, who now lives in Nashville with her husband and infant son, is already a rising star in the Christian pop genre\u2014but she\u2019s determined not to just preach to the converted. \u201cThere are some very personal songs on this record, because what I tend to write naturally are songs from my life,\u201d she says. \u201cBut this time I\u2019m definitely focused more on thinking outside my own experience, looking at what\u00a0other people are going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI HOMETOWN: New York City INFLUENCES: John Mayer, Nichole Nordeman, Stevie Wonder ALBUM: Hundred More Years, out now WEBSITE: francescamusic.com When she wrote and recorded her debut album, 2008\u2019s My Paper Heart, all New York native Francesca Battistelli had to worry about was the task at hand. When she went to work on the [&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":[2236,2237,2238,1807,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"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=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}