{"id":4422,"date":"2018-08-21T23:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T23:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2019-01-03T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T08:04:12","slug":"marc-martel-somebody-to-love-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/marc-martel-somebody-to-love-audition\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Martel &#8211; Somebody To Love Audition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To win an online competition to join the original drummer of Queen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogertaylorofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Taylor<\/a>, on-stage for the Queen Extravaganza Live Tour, Christian rock musician <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmartelmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Martel<\/a> performed an amazing cover of Somebody To Love in an audition that you have to hear to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PS: He won. Freddie Mercury would have been proud. We found another song he sang as well, and shared it below. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updated 2019: Recorded in December, (and almost immediately went viral), we ran across an entire medley that Marc recorded and decided to share it below. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Freddie Mercury Medley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VIRALMUSICNOW\/videos\/363052401169876\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Somebody To Love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen Extravaganza - My &quot;Somebody To Love&quot; audition\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dREKkAk628I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crazy Little Thing Called Love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen Extravaganza - Marc Martel Crazy Little Thing Called Love Audition\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8qmFEh5zsBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4>Did you enjoy this post? Leave a comment below and let us know! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/echoingwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> for more great content.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Christian rock musician Marc Martel&#8217;s audition of Queen&#8217;s Somebody To Love would have made Freddie Mercury proud. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/marc-martel-somebody-to-love-audition\/\" title=\"Marc Martel &#8211; Somebody To Love Audition\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[506,1133,1130,1131,1132],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-around-the-web","tag-cover","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-marc-martel","tag-queen","tag-somebody-to-love"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoingwalls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}