{"id":8182,"date":"2017-02-01T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2017-02-11T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T19:32:01","slug":"the-sample-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/01\/the-sample-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sampha Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/01\/arts\/music\/sampha-process-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Sampha, a Wounded Voice for Drake and Beyonc\u00e9, Steps Out With \u2018Process\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by JOE COSCARELLI\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/joe-coscarelli\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"JOE COSCARELLI\" data-twitter-handle=\"joecoscarelli\">JOE COSCARELLI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_oM1DFL43Lk\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"109\" data-total-count=\"109\">Sampha, the experimental British pop singer and electronic producer, sounds like someone who has seen things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"439\" data-total-count=\"548\">For years, some of the biggest names in music (and the best talent scouts) \u2014 including Drake,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IDvu1ehPq0g\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, Kanye West and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YTtrnDbOQAU\" target=\"_blank\">Solange<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 have deployed his lush, tender soprano, which can feel wounded but never weak, to telegraph their vulnerability. Through guest appearances on tell-all songs like Drake\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oNM2TfYc9bk\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cToo Much\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and Mr. West\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lSg2UP0p7RQ\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSaint Pablo,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Sampha has made himself a go-to collaborator for those in search of emotional heft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"364\" data-total-count=\"912\">So it\u2019s peculiar, then, given his ability to touch souls with his voice, that Sampha (born Sampha Sisay) long shied away from singing. As a child, he was known at home mainly as a dancer, doing Michael Jackson moves at the urging of his four much older brothers. When a career in music dawned on him, he thought of becoming a producer like Pharrell or Timbaland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"303\" data-total-count=\"1215\">\u201cWhen I started, I was just making lots of beats, and I wasn\u2019t even intending to sing over them,\u201d Sampha said last month in a low murmur, trailing off more often than he finished sentences. \u201cI didn\u2019t even have a microphone at home \u2014 I would have to go to someone else\u2019s house to record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"303\" data-total-count=\"1215\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/01\/arts\/music\/sampha-process-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Sampha, a Wounded Voice for Drake and Beyonc\u00e9, Steps Out With \u2018Process\u2019 By\u00a0JOE COSCARELLI Sampha, the experimental British pop singer and electronic producer, sounds like someone who has seen things. For years, some of the biggest names in music (and the best talent scouts) \u2014 including Drake,\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9, Kanye West and\u00a0Solange\u00a0\u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}