{"id":12325,"date":"2012-01-17T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2012-01-17T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:54:51","slug":"four-young-men-find-success-as-r-b-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12325","title":{"rendered":"Four Young Men Find Success As R & B Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong>
\n Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

While growing up in St. Petersburg, Taz<\/strong>, S.L.M.<\/strong>, Dorian<\/strong>, and P.T.<\/strong> (known as Fanta-C<\/strong>) tried to immolate the popular R&B groups they had heard their parents listening to, and they grew up listening.<\/p>\n

“Groups like the Temptations<\/strong>, Jodeci<\/strong>, O’Jays<\/strong> and others were the ones who had the biggest influence on us,” said Taz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to be real singers and performers, and keep the tradition of the old school R&B groups alive.”<\/p>\n

The quartet has been honored with a request to perform as part of the Black Heritage Celebration. These four young men first came to Tampa during a show promoted by Too Smooth<\/strong>, and opened for the successful R&B group, Silk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Entering their 15th year of singing together, Taz<\/strong> said they got their first break when they moved to Atlanta and landed a deal with Sony Records.<\/p>\n

“We thought we were ready for the big time but we found out we weren’t mature enough to handle the success. It turned out to be a real learning experience for all of us.”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fanta-C<\/strong> has been on the road quite a bit, and now they are preparing to shoot a video in February.<\/p>\n

“We want everyone to come out and join us for our album release party,” said Taz<\/strong>. “No one will leave disappointed. We have a live band behind us this time, and we want the world to know that R&B is not dead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer While growing up in St. Petersburg, Taz, S.L.M., Dorian, and P.T. (known as Fanta-C) tried to immolate the popular R&B groups they had heard their parents listening to, and they grew up listening. “Groups like the Temptations, Jodeci, O’Jays and others were the ones who had the biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}