{"id":14165,"date":"2011-09-29T12:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=14165"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T09:57:34","slug":"a-star-in-the-making-chris-rene-x-factor-14165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/a-star-in-the-making-chris-rene-x-factor-14165\/","title":{"rendered":"A star in the making: Chris Rene X-Factor \/ Young Homie Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14167\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14167\" title=\"chris-rene-x-factor-nationalturk-8902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chris-rene-x-factor-nationalturk-8902.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Rene amazing X-Factor performance\" width=\"610\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Rene what an amazing X-Factor performance that was!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Chris Rene stunned the judges and audience in the first episode of X-Factor not only with a rendition of his original melodic hip-hop track &#8216;Young Homie&#8217; and his compelling backstory..Young Homie Video<\/h1>\n<p>Chris Rene show off some undeniable talent, which was immediately found response in the eyes and bodies of all 4 judges, as soon as the trash collector and ex-drug addict started to sing one of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Musical talent runs obviously in Rene&#8217;s family. His grandfather, Leon Rene, was a songwriter back in the 30\u2019s &#8211; 50\u2019s &#8212; his most famous composition is probably \u201cRockin\u2019 Robin.\u201d Leon\u2019s son, Chris\u2019s father Rafael \u201cGoogie\u201d Rene, was a moderately successful jazz and soul singer in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s. These days, Chris\u2019s sister Gina and brother Gabriel are both members of an electronica group called Soulstice.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Rene : Talented boy from the streets wins the heart of America<\/h2>\n<p>Chris Rene has also a dark side and saw rock-bottom more than once in his life. Drugs were a part of Chris Rene\u2019s life for a long time before he got clean. According to police records, Chris Rene was arrested for possession in both 2002 and 2007. He managed to clean up his act in time to audition for the X-Factor; being a father also helped him in this cause<\/p>\n<h3>Here is the video of Chris Rene, performing his own song &#8216;Young Homie&#8217;<\/h3>\n[media id=473 width=610 height=340]\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Rene stunned the judges and audience in the first episode of X-Factor not only with a rendition of his original melodic hip-hop track &#8216;Young Homie&#8217; and his compelling backstory..Young Homie Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,45,1,118,895,14],"tags":[17986,17977,17979,17978,17982,17984,17980,17981,17985,17983],"class_list":["post-14165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-entertainment","category-general","category-hot","category-life","category-world","tag-america-x-factor","tag-chris-rene","tag-chris-rene-america","tag-chris-rene-x-factor","tag-chris-rene-young-homie","tag-chris-rene-young-homie-video","tag-x-factor","tag-x-factor-chris-rene","tag-x-factor-usa","tag-young-homie-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}