{"id":2640,"date":"2016-09-19T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T09:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2016-09-19T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T09:45:42","slug":"jazzy-b-first-south-asian-star-to-join-the-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/?p=2640","title":{"rendered":"Jazzy B first South Asian star to join the walk of fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary bhangra\u00a0musician\u00a0Jazzy B was\u00a0inducted into B.C.&#8217;s Hall of Fame\u00a0Saturday, earning\u00a0a star on Vancouver&#8217;s Granville Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great moment for me, a great moment for my family, my\u00a0friends,&#8221; said Jaswinder Singh Bains, known to his fans as Jazzy B or the &#8220;Crown Prince of Bhangra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bains is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcentertainmenthalloffame.com\/agency.php?view=news&amp;nid=8086\" target=\"_blank\">first South Asian star to join the walk of fame<\/a>.\u00a0He\u00a0was born in Punjab, India\u00a0and raised in Surrey, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Jazzy B&#8217;s\u00a0debut album,\u00a0<em>Gugian da Jorra,\u00a0<\/em>was\u00a0released in 1993\u00a0and since then he&#8217;s garnered thousands of fans from across the world.<\/p>\n<p>He travels between Canada, India and his home in Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary bhangra\u00a0musician\u00a0Jazzy B was\u00a0inducted into B.C.&#8217;s Hall of Fame\u00a0Saturday, earning\u00a0a star on Vancouver&#8217;s Granville Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great moment for me, a great moment for my family, my\u00a0friends,&#8221; said Jaswinder Singh &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,3,1],"tags":[74,121,122,123,91,124,120],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-jazzy-clothing","category-event-reports","category-jazzyb","tag-b-jazzy","tag-bc","tag-canada","tag-first-south-asian-artist","tag-jazzy-b","tag-superstar","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazzyb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}