{"id":2913,"date":"2011-08-01T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:11:56","slug":"kina-grannis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/kina-grannis\/","title":{"rendered":"KINA GRANNIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2914\" title=\"KINA-GRANNIS-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/KINA-GRANNIS-QandA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/KINA-GRANNIS-QandA.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/KINA-GRANNIS-QandA-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>KINA GRANNIS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Mission Viejo, Calif.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette,\u00a0Vertical Horizon<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Stairwells<\/em>, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> kinagrannis.com<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Kina Grannis decided to upload her\u00a0performance of her song \u201cMessage From Your Heart\u201d to YouTube in hopes of winning a contest. Win it she did, earning the clip a televised airing during the Super Bowl\u2014and an internet following that has since grown into the millions. \u201cOne of the most amazing things that came out of the whole experience was the relationship that formed between me and my supporters online,\u201d Grannis says. \u201cThey were right there on the journey with me, and every bit of success I had was thanks to them.\u201d Last year she independently released her debut album, <em>Stairwells<\/em>\u2014which has just been\u00a0re-released in remixed and expanded form on the indie label One Haven Music. \u201cI just want to share my music with as many people as I can,\u201d she says, \u201cin the hopes that it can do some\u00a0good for someone somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINA GRANNIS HOMETOWN: Mission Viejo, Calif. INFLUENCES: Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette,\u00a0Vertical Horizon ALBUM: Stairwells, out now WEBSITE: kinagrannis.com In 2007, Kina Grannis decided to upload her\u00a0performance of her song \u201cMessage From Your Heart\u201d to YouTube in hopes of winning a contest. Win it she did, earning the clip a televised airing during the Super Bowl\u2014and [&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":[2239,2240,1807,2241,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"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=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}