{"id":664,"date":"2019-03-23T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/23\/2019322hamden-celebrity-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:34:53","slug":"2019322hamden-celebrity-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/23\/2019322hamden-celebrity-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamden celebrity of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Avery Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:2500.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:100.0%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Avery-Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"Avery Wilson.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Avery-Wilson.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Avery-Wilson.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x2500\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Avery Wilson.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5c9500e7ec212d1e3315b744\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Avery Wilson, Vocalist and Contestant on NBC\u2019s <em>The Voice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Wilson is an R&amp;B artist, born and raised in Hamden. He is best known for his appearance on the NBC television program, \u201cThe Voice.\u201d Wilson, just 16 years old at the time, was a member of team Cee-Lo, where he was eliminated after the \u201cknockout rounds.\u201d He was then signed with notable producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/clive-davis-20740991\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Clive Davis<\/span><\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcarecords.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">RCA Records<\/span><\/a>. In October 2018, Avery released his first EP \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/fyi-ep\/1438058815\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">FYI<\/span><\/a>\u201d which included his singles \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mw8aKSTQfBI\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Do You<\/span><\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ABy3TfsTyg\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Dollar Bill<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hamden native Avery Wilson worked until he made it onto The Voice. Learn more about his journey from here to stardom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-homepage","tag-hamden-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}