{"id":2806,"date":"2023-10-05T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2023-10-04T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:28:44","slug":"happy-birthday-heather-headley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Heather Headley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this day, October 5, 1974, singer, songwriter, and actress Heather Headley was born in Trinidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Headley initially gained recognition for her soulful singing voice. She released her debut album, &#8220;This Is Who I Am,&#8221; in 2002, which included hit songs like &#8220;I Wish I Wasn&#8217;t&#8221; and &#8220;He Is.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, Headley released the album Audience of One which went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&amp;B Gospel Album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her music career, Heather Headley has also been successful in the world of musical theater. She made her Broadway debut in 1997 in the musical &#8220;Ragtime,&#8221; for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She later starred as Aida in Elton John and Tim Rice&#8217;s musical &#8220;Aida,&#8221; winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Headley has continued to perform on Broadway and in other theater productions, showcasing her exceptional vocal talent and acting abilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heather Headley - In My Mind (Official Video)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9dfZyfckKPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, October 5, 1974, singer, songwriter, and actress Heather Headley was born in Trinidad. Headley initially gained recognition for her soulful singing voice. She released her debut album,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[345,431,344,361,351,347,348],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-music-history","tag-fleetdjs-2","tag-heatherheadley","tag-thefleetmag-2","tag-todayinmusichistory-2","tag-webreakrecords-2","tag-webringtheurbanculturetou-2","tag-welivetheurbanculture-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefleetmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}