{"id":1368,"date":"2019-12-15T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/?page_id=1368"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:07:31","slug":"about-saint-jhn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/about-saint-jhn\/","title":{"rendered":"About Saint Jhn and Wizkid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1452 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-2-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-2.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> professionally known as <\/span><b>Wizkid or Star Boy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a famous Nigerian singer and songwriter from Surulere, Lagos. He started recording music at the age of 11 and released his first album <\/span><b>Superstar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1454\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-3-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-3.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>\u00a0Carlos St John<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> professionally known as <\/span><b>Saint Jhn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was born in Brooklyn New York and is from a Guyanese descent. He split his time between New York and Guyana. He was inspired to be a musician because of his older brother and he started singing at 12 years. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He released his first album under the Saint Jhn moniker, <\/span><b>Collection One<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in March 2018. Prior to that, Jhn wrote songs for a number of acts, including Jidenna, Hoodie Allen, Usher, Kiesza, and others.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/song-lyrics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1697 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Screenshot-2019-12-17-at-2.34.33-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Allmusic.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun professionally known as Wizkid or Star Boy is a famous Nigerian singer and songwriter from Surulere, Lagos. He started recording music at the age of 11 and released his first album Superstar in 2011. \u00a0Carlos St John professionally known as Saint Jhn was born in Brooklyn New York and is from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1368\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}