{"id":2435,"date":"2020-02-01T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2020-02-01T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T23:37:40","slug":"alicia-olatuja-a-singer-with-a-strong-and-luscious-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Olatuja A Singer With A Strong And Luscious Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you have listened to acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger Alicia Olatuja you won\u2019t soon forget her. Praised in the New York Times as \u201ca singer with a strong and luscious tone,\u201d Olatuja combines the earthy with the sublime, bringing a grounded relatability to genres as lofty as classical, as venerated as jazz, and as gritty as R&amp;B. On her stunning Resilience Music Alliance debut, Intuition: Songs From The Minds Of Women, Olatuja lends her distinctive approach to celebrating the artistic output of noted female composers. Olatuja\u2019s vocal excellence stunned a global audience of millions during the second inauguration ceremony for President Barack Obama, the nation\u2019s first African American president, in 2013 with a soaring featured solo during the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir\u2019s rendition of \u201cThe Battle Hymn of the Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2436\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2436\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CgohJz_fd-WGdFXcYS5v_LDSD8kLoewM25EuMe_TMK7X74MXQzT33LUOuixeP3s3sIbGF8DKzA8CzzC1geTjYq_Ks0-d-e1-ft-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CgohJz_fd-WGdFXcYS5v_LDSD8kLoewM25EuMe_TMK7X74MXQzT33LUOuixeP3s3sIbGF8DKzA8CzzC1geTjYq_Ks0-d-e1-ft-300x167.png 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CgohJz_fd-WGdFXcYS5v_LDSD8kLoewM25EuMe_TMK7X74MXQzT33LUOuixeP3s3sIbGF8DKzA8CzzC1geTjYq_Ks0-d-e1-ft.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stream Video Alicia Olatuja | Live at BRIC House<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though most didn\u2019t know her name, her pristine voice and poise made a visible impact on the dignitaries in attendance, with reporters and social media lavishing her with praise. Olatuja has performed extensively with The Julliard School\u2019s jazz ensembles, shared the stage with Chaka Khan, BeBe Winans, Christian McBride, Dr. Lonnie Smith and has appeared at the national and international music festivals with her own band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you have listened to acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger Alicia Olatuja you won\u2019t soon forget her. Praised in the New York Times as \u201ca singer with a strong and luscious tone,\u201d Olatuja combines the earthy with the sublime, bringing a grounded relatability to genres as lofty as classical, as venerated as jazz, and as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[72,73,74,75,76],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-artists-lounge","tag-alicia","tag-luscious","tag-olatuja","tag-singer","tag-strong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}