{"id":30072,"date":"2015-08-11T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30072"},"modified":"2015-08-11T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:31:49","slug":"applause-for-soufjan-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/applause-for-soufjan-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Applause for Soufjan Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why this video from 2014 popped up in my Twitter timeline recently, but I&#8217;m glad it did.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got <em>The Voice<\/em> television talent show here &#8212; where judges initially face away from the would-be stars in order to focus on the voices &#8212; but other countries have <em>The Voice Kids<\/em>, for 8- to 14-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a kid named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SoufjanOFFICIAL\" target=\"_blank\">Soufjan Ibrahim<\/a> sang Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8220;Applause&#8221; for his audition on <em>The Voice Kids Germany.<\/em> The judges were blown away, and now I can&#8217;t stop watching it.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qwI32Si0ipE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Soufjan didn&#8217;t make it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/survivorsucks.yuku.com\/topic\/108219\/the-voice-like-velvet-all-inside?page=234#.VcqftrcSE8g\" target=\"_blank\">finals<\/a>. Alas!<br \/>\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why this video from 2014 popped up in my Twitter timeline recently, but I&#8217;m glad it did.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got The Voice television talent show here &#8212; where judges initially face away from the would-be stars in order to focus on the voices &#8212; but other countries have The Voice Kids, for 8-&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/applause-for-soufjan-ibrahim\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[298,42,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lady-gaga","7":"category-music","8":"category-tv","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30073,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions\/30073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}