{"id":475,"date":"2005-07-20T07:25:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2005\/07\/toya_alexis_is_the_truth\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T07:25:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T11:25:25","slug":"toya_alexis_is_the_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/toya_alexis_is_the_truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Toya Alexis is the Truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of seeing\/hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyaalexisonline.com\/\">Toya Alexis<\/a> perform last night when she opened for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esthero.net\/\">Esthero<\/a> (who also wrecked shop, but we all knew she would).  Toya can sing her ass off.  As I just learned from her site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/idol\/CTVShows\/1076268611124_71670914\/\" title=\"Toya Alexis - 2003 Top 6\">she was a finalist in <em>Canadian Idol<\/em> a couple of years back<\/a>.  Based on how she sang last night I can&#8217;t imagine what the five people who placed above her sounded like.  Her site says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000A5E6RI\/tradermike-20\">her debut CD, <em>S.O.B Story<\/em><\/a>, is dropping on August 2nd so keep an eye out for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of seeing\/hearing Toya Alexis perform last night when she opened for Esthero (who also wrecked shop, but we all knew she would). Toya can sing her ass off. As I just learned from her site, she was a finalist in Canadian Idol a couple of years back. Based on how she&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/toya_alexis_is_the_truth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toya Alexis is the Truth!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":356,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/10\/trio_brings_the_pain\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":0},"title":"Trio Brings the Pain","date":"July 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Trio is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. I was just scanning through the listings on my TiVo and came across several music shows airing on July 16 and 17. You may want to set your recorders to catch some of these: Montreux Jazz Festival - \"Alternative Montreux\" -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":478,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/20\/move_to_china_become_a_rapper_make_millions\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":1},"title":"Move to China, Become a Rapper &#038; Make Millions!","date":"August 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I was reading an article in Business 2.0 about Americans who are making it big in China when I noticed a picture of a brotha with two Chinese girls next to him. (reminds me of that line from Digital Undergrounds 'Sex Packets', but I digress...) So of course I skipped\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Business&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":260,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/02\/tavis_smileys_new_tv_show_on_pbs\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":2},"title":"Tavis Smiley&#8217;s New TV Show on PBS","date":"January 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've really missed Tavis since BET was dumb enough to send him packing. He's finally got another TV show, this time on PBS. Check your local listings and set your recorders. (via the EUR) SOMEBODY GET TAVIS SMILEY SOME WATER 'Mr. Always Working' is coming back to late-night TV. *Sometimes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":310,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/16\/a_little_drum_bass_for_ya\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":3},"title":"A Little Drum &#038; Bass for Ya","date":"April 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm in a Drum & Bass mood as I prepare for the Progression Sessions show (LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad, Ed Rush & Optical, Mayhem) toninght in Atlanta. So I've uploaded some of my favorite D&B tracks. These were my first exposure to the genre. 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Here's a little bit about the first 'trade' (via Culture Critic Seeks Home) As a budding anthropologist, I could not help but read this as an unabashed look at race\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":420,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/dj_sound_provider_mix_1_radioblog_style\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":5},"title":"DJ Sound Provider Mix #1, Radio.Blog Style","date":"November 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a nice, smooth selection 'provided' by my boy Ade. He's been playing around with a CD mixer he picked up a while back and this is actually the second CD that he's let any of us hear. He, like EJ, gets a lot of his music 'provided' by Darryl\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}