{"id":8921,"date":"2013-02-06T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:52:22","slug":"michelle-rene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/michelle-rene\/","title":{"rendered":"MICHELLE RENE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8923\" title=\"MICHELLE-RENE-Issue-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MICHELLE-RENE-Issue-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MICHELLE-RENE-Issue-No24.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MICHELLE-RENE-Issue-No24-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>MICHELLE RENE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Phoenix, Ariz.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Fleetwood Mac, Ella Fitzgerald,\u00a0Patsy Cline<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> As yet untitled EP, out 2013<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> michellerene.com<\/p>\n<p>As a teen, Michelle Rene performed at county\u00a0fairs, music festivals and sports arenas in her hometown of Phoenix. She even hosted her own weekly live concert event, but a crowning moment came when she was named the best new act in country music\u2019s largest talent competition, Country Showdown, at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium in 2006. That prompted the move to Music City to chase her dream. \u201cPacking my life into my old Ford Explorer and driving across the country to pursue a life in music was definitely a leap of faith,\u201d she says. Since that leap, Michelle has served as a supporting act for LeAnn Rimes, Naomi Judd and Montgomery Gentry. Her not-yet-titled five-song EP charts the triumphs and challenges of a young artist. \u201cI feel the songs on this project are a glimpse into my life,\u201d she says. \u201cIt leaves me feeling very vulnerable and I\u00a0wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHELLE RENE HOMETOWN: Phoenix, Ariz. INFLUENCES: Fleetwood Mac, Ella Fitzgerald,\u00a0Patsy Cline ALBUM: As yet untitled EP, out 2013 WEBSITE: michellerene.com As a teen, Michelle Rene performed at county\u00a0fairs, music festivals and sports arenas in her hometown of Phoenix. She even hosted her own weekly live concert event, but a crowning moment came when she was [&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":[5995,844,5261,5993,5997,5996,5994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921"}],"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=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}