{"id":7971,"date":"2019-01-30T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2019-01-30T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:25:08","slug":"statement-from-anant-singh-on-the-passing-of-music-legend-james-ingram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/statement-from-anant-singh-on-the-passing-of-music-legend-james-ingram\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement From Anant Singh On The Passing Of Music Legend James Ingram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was with deep sadness that I learnt of the passing of James Ingram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had an amazing velvet smooth voice and was a giant in the music industry.  I am delighted to have known him, having been introduced to him by our mutual friend, Quincy Jones who is also very distraught about his passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We subsequently worked together when he did the song \u2018One More Time\u2019 for the end title sequence for our film, SARAFINA!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SARAFINA - ONE MORE TIME - JAMES INGRAM\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/314234632?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We send his family our sympathies and love, as we celebrate his remarkable life and talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anant Singh<br \/>Durban, South Africa<br \/>30 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was with deep sadness that I learnt of the passing of James Ingram. He had an amazing velvet smooth voice and was a giant in the music industry. I am delighted to have known him, having been introduced to him by our mutual friend, Quincy Jones who is also very distraught about his passing.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/statement-from-anant-singh-on-the-passing-of-music-legend-james-ingram\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statement From Anant Singh On The Passing Of Music Legend James Ingram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}