{"id":41125,"date":"2014-08-20T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41125"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:47:56","slug":"chicano-singer-ixya-herrera-keeps-traditional-music-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/08\/20\/chicano-singer-ixya-herrera-keeps-traditional-music-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicano Singer Ixya Herrera Keeps Traditional Music Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140820Uprising\/2014_08_20_ixya.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Ixya Herrera <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140820Uprising\/2014_08_20_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/ixya_herrera.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Ixya Herrera was only 12-years-old when she launched her musical career by sharing the stage with her idol Linda Ronstadt at the Tuscon Mariachi Conference in 1992. Amazed by Herrera\u2019s performance, Ronstadt invited the young singer to perform on her \u201cFiesta Mexicana Tour\u201d. Four years later, Herrera released her first album, Primavera (Mexican Classics) which earned her a star for musical excellence from Billboard Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Oxnard California, Herrera was raised in a household filled with music. As a musician she was deeply influenced by her father Fermin Herrera. Herrera\u2019s father is not only a Chicano studies Professor at Cal State Northridge, but also a world renowned harpist and founder of the el son jarocho group, Conjunto Hueyapan.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Ixya Herrera just released her third album last month called \u2018Voz y Guitarra\u2019 featuring legendary Mexican guitarist Elias Torres. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/voz-y-guitarra-feat.-elias\/id890605659\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Ixya Herrera&#8217;s latest album. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ixya Herrera was only 12-years-old when she launched her musical career by sharing the stage with her idol Linda Ronstadt at the Tuscon Mariachi Conference in 1992. Amazed by Herrera\u2019s performance, Ronstadt invited the young singer to perform on her \u201cFiesta Mexicana Tour\u201d. Four years later, Herrera released her first album, Primavera (Mexican Classics) which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41130,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions\/41130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}