{"id":4011,"date":"2011-11-01T06:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2011-11-01T07:03:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T14:03:51","slug":"peter-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/peter-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"PETER BALDWIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>PETER \u00a0BALDWIN<\/h2>\n

HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Anchorage, Alaska
\nINFLUENCES:<\/strong> Erykah Badu, James Brown, Michael Jackson
\nALBUM:<\/strong> Peter Baldwin in Vodville <\/em>EP,\u00a0out now
\nWEBSITE:<\/strong> peterbaldwinrocks.com<\/p>\n

Peter Baldwin grew up singing in the church\u00a0where his mother served as choir director. As a high schooler he eventually formed his own choir, and learned to play a variety of instruments. After graduation he headed for Orlando, Fla., to study recording at Full Sail University. Baldwin began performing in the area, building up a local fan base with his combination of soul, folk, jazz and pop. He released an acoustic album in 2008, but considers his new EP his formal debut as an artist\u2014he wrote, produced and arranged every note, and released it on his own Rock Ya Girl label. \u201cVodville,\u201d he explains, is his shorthand for the group of musicians with whom he surrounds himself and the unique creativity that sparks among them. \u201cNaming the EP Peter Baldwin in Vodville<\/em> is my way of paying homage to the people I work with,\u201d he says, \u201cand an invitation to listeners to join me in Vodville.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Vodville, he explains, is his shorthand for the group of musicians with whom he surrounds himself and the unique creativity that sparks among them.”<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PETER \u00a0BALDWIN HOMETOWN: Anchorage, Alaska INFLUENCES: Erykah Badu, James Brown, Michael Jackson ALBUM: Peter Baldwin in Vodville EP,\u00a0out now WEBSITE: peterbaldwinrocks.com Peter Baldwin grew up singing in the church\u00a0where his mother served as choir director. As a high schooler he eventually formed his own choir, and learned to play a variety of instruments. After graduation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[2682,2687,2689,2688,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011"}],"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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}