{"id":48367,"date":"2013-11-13T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/48367\/lira-celebrates-ten-years-of-musicorlira-celebrates-her-first-decade\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T07:20:21","slug":"lira-celebrates-ten-years-of-musicorlira-celebrates-her-first-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2013\/11\/13\/lira-celebrates-ten-years-of-musicorlira-celebrates-her-first-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lira celebrates ten years of music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lira will be celebrating her first decade in the music industry with two spectacular shows at Carnival City, on November 29 and 30, in the Big Top Arena.<\/p>\n<p>With five studio albums, two live DVDs, two live CDs and multi-platinum sales, Lira is one of the biggest names on the local music scene and has much to celebrate since making her debut 10 years ago.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She has become one of South Africa&#8217;s most iconic songwriters and performers and has many SAMA awards and SAMA nominations to her name.<\/p>\n<p>Lira is no stranger to performing live at Carnival City; the DVD of her 2009 concert went on to achieve triple platinum sales status and won the award for &#8220;Best Global Chart DVD&#8221; at the 2010 SAMAs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When asked about her First Decade Celebration Lira said: &#8220;It will be a three-tier experience for the fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an artist, I communicate what I value the most: love, celebration and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is through these three things that fans can engage with me, through my recorded music, my live performances and my soon to be released biography.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seeing a Lira concert is always a special occasion, as the woman herself said: &#8220;It is going to be spectacular, a beautiful presentation of music and dance reflecting on the last 10 years.&#8221;<\/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='07882514141f3f7512e11dfd1757d2d3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lira celebrates her first decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,5,3686],"tags":[2173,1012,1003,972,1013,979,974,973],"class_list":["post-48367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-carnival-cirty","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-entertainment-2","tag-fun","tag-germiston","tag-music","tag-show"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["carnival cirty","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","entertainment","fun","germiston","music","show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48367","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}