{"id":26989,"date":"2013-12-09T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=26989"},"modified":"2013-12-09T21:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:14:37","slug":"nelson-mandela-tribute-now-is-the-time-by-soweto-native-and-montrealer-lorraine-klaasen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=26989","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela Tribute: &#8220;Now is the Time&#8221; by Soweto Native and Montrealer Lorraine Klaasen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26993\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26993\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131209-133336.jpg\" alt=\"Lorraine Klaasen-pic via: LorraineKlaasen.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26993\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorraine Klaasen-pic via: LorraineKlaasen.com<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26995\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26995\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SM120913-600x328.jpg\" alt=\"Lorraine Klaasen performing tribute to Nelson Mandela\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26995\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorraine Klaasen performing CBC&#8217;s tribute to Nelson Mandela<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Music played a vital role in South Africa&#8217;s anti-apartheid movement. <\/p>\n<p>So CBC Music commissioned Montreal singer Lorraine Klassen to write a song to celebrate Mandela&#8217;s life. Lorraine was born and raised in Soweto, South Africa, and she&#8217;s the daughter of the legendary South African jazz singer, Thandie Klassen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thandie was one of Nelson Mandela&#8217;s favourite singers. She performed at his wedding and at his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pVzWtkKZ-I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela Tribute: Now is the Time by Lorraine Klaasen-via CBC Music<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton26989\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D26989&amp;text=Nelson%20Mandela%20Tribute%3A%20%26%238220%3BNow%20is%20the%20Time%26%238221%3B%20by%20Soweto%20Native%20and%20Montrealer%20Lorraine%20Klaasen&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music played a vital role in South Africa&#8217;s anti-apartheid movement. So CBC Music commissioned Montreal singer Lorraine Klassen to write a song to celebrate Mandela&#8217;s life. Lorraine was born and raised in Soweto, South Africa, and she&#8217;s the daughter of the legendary South African jazz singer, Thandie Klassen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26989"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26999,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions\/26999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}