{"id":518830,"date":"2010-04-07T06:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=99556"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:08:27","slug":"gabourey-sidibe-mother-will-compete-on-%e2%80%9camerica%e2%80%99s-got-talent%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518830","title":{"rendered":"Gabourey Sidibe Mother Will Compete On \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Off-Broadway singer and NYC subway powerhouse Alice Tan Ridley — who just happens to be the mother of Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe — is all set to perform<\/a> in front of the judges after successfully clearing Round One of NBC’s summer series America’s Got Talent<\/em>:<\/p>\n

<\/em>\u201cI have received an e-mail from the producers of the show and I have to appear before the judges in April. It\u2019s a big break for me and I would like to follow in Susan Boyle\u2019s footsteps and become a star in my own right.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Despite having a famous daughter, Ridley — a former teacher’s aide — earns a modest income entertaining thousands of commuters in the Big Apple. The lifelong music lover hopes Talent will be the ticket to her own Hollywood Cinderella Story:<\/p>\n

“I love the judges, Sharon [Osbourne] and Piers [Morgan], and I\u2019m really looking forward to trying and impress them although I have not decided what I will sing or wear yet. Singing is what I do so I’m looking forward to appearing on America\u2019s Got Talent and showing people what I can really do.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Former Off-Broadway singer and NYC subway powerhouse Alice Tan Ridley — who just happens to be the mother of Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe — is all set to perform in front of the judges after successfully clearing Round One of NBC’s summer series America’s Got Talent: \u201cI have received an e-mail from the producers of […]<\/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-518830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518830","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=518830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}