{"id":4657,"date":"2008-07-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T07:00:00","slug":"myspace-seeks-karaoke-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/4657-myspace-seeks-karaoke-elvis.html","title":{"rendered":"MySpace seeks karaoke &#039;Elvis&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis imitators have through August 4 to upload to <a href=\"http:\/\/ksolo.myspace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ksolo.myspace.com\/<\/a> videos of themselves singing Presley songs. <\/p>\n<p>A winning performer selected by judges from Elvis Presley Enterprises and MySpace, the world&#8217;s leading social-networking website, will get to strut their stuff on stage at the icon&#8217;s former home in Memphis, Tennessee, during the annual Elvis Week.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis Week begins August 9 and features events honoring the legendary artist, who died on August 16, 1977 of heart failure at the age of 42.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We can&#8217;t wait to see the talent that comes from this contest,&quot; said MySpace Karaoke general manager Nimrod Lev.<\/p>\n<p>The Elvis karaoke king will get to perform with musicians that toured with Elvis from 1969 to 1972 and backed him on a pair of Gospel albums.<\/p>\n<p>While departed, Elvis has an official MySpace page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/elvis\" target=\"_blank\">www.myspace.com\/elvis<\/a> . <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;ve been excited about what a great tool this has become to communicate and connect with Elvis fans around the world,&quot; said Kevin Kern of Elvis Presley Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySpace Karaoke on Monday invited wannabe kings of rock-and-roll to upload videos of their best Elvis Presley imitations for a shot to perform at Graceland in his memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}