{"id":3302,"date":"2011-03-07T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T00:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/fantasia-to-sing-march-18-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:00:27","slug":"fantasia-to-sing-march-18-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/fantasia-to-sing-march-18-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasia to sing March 18 in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Fantasia, a rhythm and blues singer who won the American Idol season three competition in 2004, will perform at 8 p.m. March 18 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fantasia headlines the &#8220;Love and Laughter&#8221; concert that also features R&amp;B singers LeToya Tuckett, a former member of Destiny&#8217;s Child; Tank, who once sang background for Ginuwine; and Jeremih, who released his debut single &#8220;Birthday Sex,&#8221; that peaked at No. 4 on the Billbaord Hot 100 in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Comedian Joe Torry will host the event. Torry is a former host of the HBO series Def Comedy Jam.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fantasia won a Grammy Award Feb. 12 for Best Female R&amp;B Vocal Performance for &#8220;Bittersweet&#8221; off of her latest album &#8220;Back To Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tickets are $59, $49, $39 and $29. A limited number of $150 tickets are available and include early entry at 6:30 p.m. to meet the artists, a photo and commemorative gift package.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For tickets go to www.showarecenter.com or call 253-856-6999.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasia, a rhythm and blues singer who won the American Idol season three competition in 2004, will perform at 8 p.m. March 18 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":3303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}