{"id":7045,"date":"2012-08-02T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2012-08-14T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:09:54","slug":"haley-reinhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/haley-reinhart\/","title":{"rendered":"HALEY REINHART"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7046\" title=\"Haley-REINHART-June-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Haley-REINHART-June-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Haley-REINHART-June-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Haley-REINHART-June-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>HALEY REINHART<\/h1>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Wheeling, Ill.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> The Beatles, Nina Simone, Tony Bennett<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Listen Up!<\/em>, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> haleyreinhart.com<\/p>\n<p><em>American Idol<\/em> alum Haley Reinhart\u2014who finished third in season 10\u2014recorded her debut album <em>Listen Up!<\/em> following the show\u2019s international tour. \u201cI wanted to wait till I could put all my focus and energy into the album and be very hands-on with every single aspect,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was really important to me that the record have an organic, soulful sound that reflects the kind of artist I want to be.\u201d Reinhart co-wrote nine of the 10 tracks on\u00a0<em>Listen Up! <\/em>and collaborated with leading writer-producers including Mike Elizondo and Busbee. The result was a mainstream pop album \u201cwith elements of soul, rock, R&amp;B and even some jazz,\u201d she says. Reinhart\u2019s parents are both musicians, and she credits their eclectic taste for rousing her own curiosity. \u201cI\u2019m lucky to have grown up in a house where good music was always playing,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge part\u00a0of what makes me the artist I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Blake Boldt<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALEY REINHART HOMETOWN: Wheeling, Ill. INFLUENCES: The Beatles, Nina Simone, Tony Bennett ALBUM: Listen Up!, out now WEBSITE: haleyreinhart.com American Idol alum Haley Reinhart\u2014who finished third in season 10\u2014recorded her debut album Listen Up! following the show\u2019s international tour. \u201cI wanted to wait till I could put all my focus and energy into the album [&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":[1354,4525,4477,4475,4478,4300,4476,842,4479,3818,3674,4480,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045"}],"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=7045"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7124,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}