{"id":54696,"date":"2020-06-29T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/beyonce-black-is-king\/"},"modified":"2020-06-30T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:23:08","slug":"beyonce-black-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/beyonce-black-is-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 announces the movie Black is King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The movie, written and directed by the singer, will premiere on the Disney+ platform on July 31.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After her first visual album <em>Lemonade<\/em> in 2016 on HBO, Queen B is back and unveils a new musical film written, directed and produced by herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;The voyages of Black families, throughout time, are honored in a tale about a young king\u2019s transcendent journey through betrayal, love and self-identity. His ancestors help guide him toward his destiny, and with his father\u2019s teachings and guidance from his childhood love, he earns the virtues needed to reclaim his home and throne.<\/em><\/p><p><em>These timeless lessons are revealed and reflected through Black voices of today, now sitting in their own power. \u201cBlack Is King\u201d is an affirmation of a grand purpose, with lush visuals that celebrate Black resilience and culture. The film highlights the beauty of tradition and Black excellence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Black is Black<\/em> celebrates Black heritage and culture with several songs from the album <em>The Lion King: The Gift<\/em>, based on the original soundtrack of the Lion King remake. The film should feature prestigious guests such as Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Childish Gambino and her husband Jay-Z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Black is King<\/em> will be available on Disney+ on July 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Beyonc\u00e9 &quot;Black is King\u201d | Disney+ Teaser Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IfKOacT7oX0?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie, written and directed by the singer, will premiere on the Disney+ platform on July 31. After her first visual album Lemonade in 2016 on HBO, Queen B is back and unveils a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4401],"location":[7976],"yst_prominent_words":[16760,16867,16755,16753,9172,16816,9892,8407,8414,8933,16756,16824,8441,16794,8402,16820,16793,16790,8449,16815],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54696"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=54696"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}