{"id":79742,"date":"2020-07-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/?p=79742"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:44:15","slug":"heavily-influenced-by-his-caribbean-heritage-introducing-rising-singer-songwriter-julz-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/2020\/07\/heavily-influenced-by-his-caribbean-heritage-introducing-rising-singer-songwriter-julz-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavily influenced by his Caribbean heritage: Introducing rising UK singer-songwriter Julz West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_79744\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79744\" class=\"wp-image-79744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West.jpg 750w, https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West-502x400.jpg 502w, https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West-652x520.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-79744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Sheldon West<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having had his start on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/JulzzzWest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, Julz, a Singer-songwriter from London, has been steadily growing his fanbase; amassing a following of over 180,000 on social media. After spending the last few years quietly writing and providing backing vocals for other artists such as Ed Sheeran, he&#8217;s now focused on carving out an image of his own.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1i0LvNEggJo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Heavily influenced by his Caribbean heritage his latest release &#8216;Summers Not Cancelled Yet&#8217; is filled with good vibes and warm vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by quarantine, this song is a result of a last minute change in scheduling. With plans to release a different summer song having changed, this song now brings us a ray of sunshine and hope in such uncertain times.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_79743\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79743\" src=\"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West1-279x400.jpg 279w, https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West1-363x520.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-79743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Michael Agyemang.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The song is influenced by Julz&#8217; Caribbean roots, launched with a colourful Lyric video there are plans to film an upbeat dance music video for the song and encourage a #SummersNotCancelled challenge on social media such as TikTok.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6RNROoe1c0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Summers Not Cancelled Yet&#8217; is available now via <a href=\"https:\/\/smarturl.it\/JulzSNC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all major platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with Julz West<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/itsjulzwest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/itsjulzwest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had his start on YouTube, Julz, a Singer-songwriter from London, has been steadily growing his fanbase; amassing a following of over 180,000 on social media. After spending the last few years quietly writing and providing backing vocals for other artists such as Ed Sheeran, he&#8217;s now focused on carving out an image of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4080,1],"tags":[1258,5611,190,712,10672],"class_list":{"0":"post-79742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-introducing","8":"category-music","9":"tag-introducing-tag","10":"tag-music-blog","11":"tag-new-music","12":"tag-pop","13":"tag-singer-songwriter-2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julz-West-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79742"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79774,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79742\/revisions\/79774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nijimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}