{"id":8159,"date":"2011-05-09T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2011-05-09T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:51:16","slug":"tribute-acts-cruise-ships-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8159","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Crooners Sound Like\u2026Anybody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen singers who sound a lot kind of like the artist whose songs they&#8217;re performing. Usually, these &#8220;tribute acts&#8221; on cruise ships (and off) focus their vocal chords on one performer. Neil Diamond\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetemptations.com\/\">The Temptations<\/a>\u2026Britney Spears&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/kennyrogers.musiccitynetworks.com\/\">Kenny Rogers<\/a>\u2026Gladys Knight\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/web.eltonjohn.com\/index.jsp\">Elton John<\/a>&#8230;take your pick.<\/p>\n<p>On almost every cruise ship we&#8217;ve boarded, there has been a no-name group that sings in the bars, or in the atrium or wherever they&#8217;re wanted. They sing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neildiamond.com\/\">Neil Diamond<\/a> AND The Temptations AND <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britneyspears.com\/femme-fatale-tour\/\">Britney Spears<\/a> AND Kenny Rogers AND <a href=\"http:\/\/gladysknight.com\/\">Gladys Knight<\/a> AND Elton John AND\u2026you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>You hear the sound, and they&#8217;re remarkably good. Then you peek over the balcony into the atrium, or around the corner into a lounge, and inevitably these gifted performers are all from the same country.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even their first language.<\/p>\n<p>How does that happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen singers who sound a lot kind of like the artist whose songs they&#8217;re performing. Usually, these &#8220;tribute acts&#8221; on cruise ships (and off) focus their vocal chords on one performer. Neil Diamond\u2026The Temptations\u2026Britney Spears&#8230;Kenny Rogers\u2026Gladys Knight\u2026Elton John&#8230;take your pick. On almost every cruise ship we&#8217;ve boarded, there has been a no-name group&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=8159\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruise Crooners Sound Like\u2026Anybody<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,36,19,15],"tags":[204,86,35,612,613,471],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ship-entertainment","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-philippines","tag-talent","tag-tribute-acts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}