{"id":24226,"date":"2024-05-01T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24226"},"modified":"2024-05-01T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T15:59:21","slug":"homegrown-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/homegrown-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Homegrown Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23dcdcdc&amp;d=issuu_may24&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=24&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\">Julia Gagnon has the world humming Maine\u2019s tune.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>interview by Clif Travers<\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><em>American Idol<\/em> is in its 22<span class=\"s1\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span> season and remains a top star-maker machine in the singing-competition industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">It\u2019s boosted the careers of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Jennifer Hudson. And now its light is shining on a local singer, Julia Gagnon. Will it spread its stardust on this 21-year-old songstress from Cumberland? In her audition, viewed by over 1.3M so far, Gagnon did Aretha Franklin proud by belting out \u201cAin\u2019t No Way,\u201d impressing the judges and earning her one of three platinum tickets that let her skip straight past the first round of Hollywood Week. Now she\u2019s piped her way through multiple elimination rounds, landing her in the Top Ten at press time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">What\u2019s all of this like for you?<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HometownHero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HometownHero.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HometownHero-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HometownHero-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1295],"class_list":["post-24226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-may-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24270,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226\/revisions\/24270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}