{"id":140986,"date":"2016-12-25T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=140986"},"modified":"2016-12-25T06:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T04:31:46","slug":"merry-christmas-from-the-pha-real-voices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-from-the-pha-real-voices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from the Pha Real Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colin Mann singing sensations, the Pha Real Voices, wish Germiston\u2019s residents a very Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Watch them sing here:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lNToRIcG67o' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The GCN met the\u00a0Pha Real Voices in September 2015 when it was announced the 15 lucky students would be sharing the stage with international superstar\u00a0Pharrell Williams.<\/p>\n<p>This opportunity formed part of the MySchool Sing With Us competition prize, a strategic collaboration between Woolworths and the Grammy Award-winning musician.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Pharrell, American singer-songwriter, producer, fashion designer and philanthropist, hand-picked the group from 10 finalists, after local judges Jon Savage, Katlego Maboe and Theo Crous had whittled down over 200 entries to just 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/98893\/local-school-overwhelmed-by-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: The Pha Real Voices dream comes true \u2013 for real<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/105655\/pha-real-voices-share-their-whirlwind-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pha Real Voices share their whirlwind experience<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='9903cf90f7b73ae6861b8ce73a2f235a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,\u201d sing the Pha Real Voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":109173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-140986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}