{"id":96469,"date":"2005-12-20T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a5b9b6ba-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-12-20T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T02:38:00","slug":"a5b9b6cb-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a5b9b6cb-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Island tunes rock the house in Christmas in Paradise Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was truly a night of livewire music and spectacular videos, as Marianas Music Videos provided local music lovers an early Christmas treat Monday night by organizing the islands&#8217; biggest concert featuring local artists.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cChristmas in Paradise Concert,\u201d the event drew more than 16 individual and group artists at Saipan World Resort&#8217;s Royal Taga Hall.<\/p>\n<p>MMV producer and local artist A.J. Baldevia and Amerasia hosted the Christmas in Paradise Concert, which featured Pete Magofna&#8217;s rap music in Chamorro, the island rock and roll beat of Split Attitude, and Tagalog Christmas songs of local favorite Jerry Alcantara. Dubba D also brought down the house with their hip-hop rap number and debuted their own musical composition entitled So Much.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Teen CNMI Divana Dela Cruz and local artist Walter Manglona performed Christmas songs, while Tinian Team Nono showed their electrifying dance moves.<\/p>\n<p>Other performers included Baldevia, local star Amber Mendiola, The All Star Islanders, Amerasia, Larson Silas, Marcelino Quiroz, Man\u2019amko Rockers, Virgil Viray, and Mark Nauta, among others.<\/p>\n<p>MMV, the local verison of the world-renowned MTV, has produced 15 music videos, and plans to come up with a local music video channel that will feature local talents 24 hours daily, seven days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was truly a night of livewire music and spectacular videos, as Marianas Music Videos provided local music lovers an early Christmas treat Monday night by organizing the islands&#8217; biggest concert featuring local artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}