{"id":8634,"date":"2018-03-14T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2018-03-14T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:50:14","slug":"pink-floyd-backing-vocalist-claudia-fontaine-dead-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2018\/03\/pink-floyd-backing-vocalist-claudia-fontaine-dead-at-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd backing vocalist Claudia Fontaine dead at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Vocalist <strong>Claudia Fontaine<\/strong> died yesterday. She was 57.<\/p>\n<p>An accomplished vocalist who began working in her teens, she provided backing vocals for <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> on the 1994 tour of &#8220;The Division Bell,&#8221; which would become the &#8220;Pulse&#8221; (1995) album.<\/p>\n<p>A member of <strong>Afrodiziak<\/strong> in the &#8217;80s (pictured, with Fontaine on the left), Fontaine also worked with <strong>Elvis Costello &amp; the Attractions<\/strong>, <strong>The Specials<\/strong>, <strong>The Jam<\/strong>, <strong>Howard Jones<\/strong> , <strong>Squeeze<\/strong>, <strong>Joe Cocker<\/strong> and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vocalist Claudia Fontaine died yesterday. She was 57. An accomplished vocalist who began working in her teens, she provided backing vocals for Pink Floyd on the 1994 tour of &#8220;The Division Bell,&#8221; which would become the &#8220;Pulse&#8221; (1995) album. A member of Afrodiziak in the &#8217;80s (pictured, with Fontaine on the left), Fontaine also worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8636,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}