{"id":294505,"date":"2010-02-08T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92339"},"modified":"2010-02-08T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:51:05","slug":"%e2%80%9cprecious%e2%80%9d-star%e2%80%99s-mom-alice-tan-ridley-still-singing-her-heart-out-new-york-city-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294505","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPrecious\u201d Star\u2019s Mom, Alice Tan Ridley, Still Singing Her Heart Out New York City Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice Tan Ridley, mother of Academy Award-nominated Precious<\/em> star Gabourey Sidibe, has been singing her heart out in subway stations around New York City three days a week for 18 years!<\/p>\n

A R&B\/Gospel fixture in the Big Apple, Ridley worked as a nursery-school teacher and a Department of Education teacher’s aide before relocating her act to Manhattan\u2019s train stations — she also croons in Penn Station and 14th Street\/Union Square. Although most people would see her daughter as the one with the more glamorous gig, Alice refuses to accept handouts from her kid.<\/p>\n

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While Gabourey, 26, could be well on her way to a life of a big spending in Hollywood, Ridley — a proud Harlem native — says she’s happy to continue hitting the high notes for straphangers.<\/p>\n

“My name is not on Gabby’s paycheck,”<\/em> Alice explained to The New York Post<\/a><\/em> on Monday. “For a while, I was teaching and doing the singing, burning the candle at both ends to support my family\u2026”<\/em> Now the songstress says she makes enough money each day to “pay the bills and feed the kids.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alice Tan Ridley, mother of Academy Award-nominated Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, has been singing her heart out in subway stations around New York City three days a week for 18 years! A R&B\/Gospel fixture in the Big Apple, Ridley worked as a nursery-school teacher and a Department of Education teacher’s aide before relocating her act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}