{"id":6675,"date":"2012-06-13T02:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2012-06-13T02:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:08:52","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEAKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6676\" title=\"Speakers-Q-and-A-May-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Speakers-Q-and-A-May-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Speakers-Q-and-A-May-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Speakers-Q-and-A-May-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>SPEAKERS<\/h1>\n<p>HOMETOWN: New Orleans<br \/>\nMEMBERS: \u201cKeon B\u201d Brown (vocals), Blair Taylor (music)<br \/>\nALBUM: <em>New Frequency <\/em>EP, out now<br \/>\nWEBSITE: speakersmusic.com<\/p>\n<p>Blair Taylor was getting established as a go-to musician and producer in his native New Orleans when singer and rapper Keon B moved to town from Waynesboro, Ga. When Keon heard Taylor\u2019s production work, he was impressed enough to try contacting him. \u201cI called and texted Blair for a whole year after hearing this CD, and he never responded. I\u2019m still mad about it,\u201d he says with a laugh. The two were finally introduced by a mutual friend, and found common musical ground immediately. \u201cMost of the artists who came to me were doing R&amp;B and rap,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cKeon was trying to do pop, and I was ready to branch out into other genres.\u201d The two formed speakers and relocated to L.A. \u201cWhat motivates us is trying to figure out how to communicate,\u201d Keon says. \u201cWe were given this ability, and we want to use it to help change people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPEAKERS HOMETOWN: New Orleans MEMBERS: \u201cKeon B\u201d Brown (vocals), Blair Taylor (music) ALBUM: New Frequency EP, out now WEBSITE: speakersmusic.com Blair Taylor was getting established as a go-to musician and producer in his native New Orleans when singer and rapper Keon B moved to town from Waynesboro, Ga. When Keon heard Taylor\u2019s production work, he [&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":[3954,3754,3953,10160,3955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675"}],"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=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}