{"id":8735,"date":"2010-05-21T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=8735"},"modified":"2010-05-21T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:08:16","slug":"she-sings-for-breakfast-lunch-and-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=8735","title":{"rendered":"She sings for breakfast, lunch and dinner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Didi Dumbuya (aka) Queen D was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone &#8211; the fourth of five children- but she migrated to the United States of America at an early age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to her parents, music has always been Queen D&#8217;s joy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Throughout her early years she made lot of noise in our ears and our neighbors. She would sing for breakfast, sing for lunch, and sing for supper,&#8221; her parents told salonejamboree.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking back, Queen D says singing for her parents and neighbors was her first musical lessons. She was greatly influenced by the songs of R&amp;B singers such as Whitney Houston, Brandy, Ace of Base and Maria Carey, and she would often practice their every style of singing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being born to a father who had earned a PhD in Political Science and a mother who also earned a Masters degree in same, music was a definite big no for the Queen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Like my sisters and brothers who&#8217;re also aiming to earn degrees in Political Science and Education, I was expected to carry the same dream. My mind, however, was focused on entertainment,&#8221; says Queen D.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didi Dumbuya (aka) Queen D was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone &#8211; the fourth of five children- but she migrated to the United States of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191,1],"tags":[3144,3145],"class_list":["post-8735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-didi-dumbuya","tag-queen-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}