{"id":54439,"date":"2017-07-10T02:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T02:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54439"},"modified":"2017-07-10T02:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T02:40:46","slug":"hip-chick-alert-puts-the-spotlight-on-tessa-souter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54439","title":{"rendered":"Hip Chick Alert puts the spotlight on Tessa Souter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hipchickalert.com\/hip-chick-alert-puts-the-spotlight-on-tessa-souter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Hip Chick Alert puts the spotlight on Tessa Souter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hipchickalert.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hip Chick Alert<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/perezjazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Perez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hipchickalert.com\/hip-chick-alert-puts-the-spotlight-on-tessa-souter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hipchickalert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tessa.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tessasouter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Souter<\/a> was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> to a Trinidadian father and an English mother. She studied piano from the age of 8 until, at 12, her piano teacher heard her voice and encouraged her to take up singing. She learned guitar by ear to accompany herself and began writing songs. She graduated with a degree in English literature from London University and got her first job in journalism at <em>Parents<\/em> magazine, before going on to freelance as a features writer for, among other British press <em>The Independent<\/em>, <em>The Times<\/em>, <em>Elle<\/em>, <em>Vogue<\/em>, as well as <em>Australian Elle<\/em>,<em> Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> and <em>HQ<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0nKll2iaOU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/hipchickalert.com\/hip-chick-alert-puts-the-spotlight-on-tessa-souter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Souter has recorded and performed with many of the jazz world\u2019s elite, including Steve Kuhn, Kenny Werner, Joel Frahm, Joe Locke, Billy Drummond, Lew Soloff, Romero Lubambo, Charnett Moffett (she is featured on his Spirit of Sound album and has appeared with him at the Jazz Standard), Alan Broadbent, Francois Moutin, Alec Dankworth, Nikki Iles, Jim Hart, Lynne Arriale and Howard Johnson -fantastic folks to be around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,25],"tags":[27245,1392,20480],"class_list":["post-54439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-hip-chick-alert","tag-music","tag-tessa-souter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54440,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439\/revisions\/54440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}