{"id":81906,"date":"2021-06-08T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/mj-rodriguez-something-to-say\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:00:21","slug":"mj-rodriguez-something-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/mj-rodriguez-something-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Pose star, MJ Rodriguez, releases new single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michaela Ja\u00e9, otherwise known as MJ Rodriguez, has released \u201cSomething to Say,\u201d following successful turn as Blanca Evangelista in Pose, a series starring the most transgender actresses in the history of television. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>While the latest series of Pose airs, Michaela Ja\u00e9 has shared &#8220;Something to Say&#8221;. Somewhere between funk, pop and RnB, the singer communicates a contagious and aspirational joy: &#8220;<em>Seems like every time we try to make it better, we just can\u2019t get through. We can\u2019t lose. It\u2019s a sign that we should speak the way we\u2019re feeling, take the walls down, break the ceiling. Love you know, it\u2019s really got a hold on me and I just wanna figure this out. We don\u2019t gotta do this alone if we try to come together as equals starting over today.<\/em>&#8221; Her anthem rings out loud: &#8220;<em>Black and brown and yellow and white, let\u2019s stand for something love tonight.<\/em>&#8221; <\/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=\"Michaela Ja\u00e9 - Something To Say\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/veCVnmnUqqY?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><figcaption>Michaela Ja\u00e9 &#8211; Something To Say<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The rising star grew up with an African-American mother and an African-Puerto Rican father. A true figure on the ballroom scene, she became world famous following her starring role in the series Pose, whose third and final season has just been released and follows Black and Latino queer people in 1980s New York City. In 2019, this role allowed her to become the first transgender woman to win the Imagen Awards, aimed at recognizing positive representation of Latinos in the entertainment industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Catch Michaela Ja\u00e9 in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>. <\/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-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/af173c68-something-to-say-michaela-ja%C3%A9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81718\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaela Ja\u00e9, otherwise known as MJ Rodriguez, has released \u201cSomething to Say,\u201d following successful turn as Blanca Evangelista in Pose, a series starring the most transgender actresses in the history of television. While the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":81729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[1455,39974,241],"location":[8210,7976],"yst_prominent_words":[34280,8934,8414,8447,39968,39967,39964,8402,39971,27292,9164,23282,39965,39963,8543,39966,24630,9194,40097,40096],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81906"}],"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=81906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81906"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=81906"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=81906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}