{"id":2560,"date":"2013-09-15T20:25:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:25:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:25:49","slug":"souli-roots-brought-reggae-to-the-arena-with-bob-marley-at-the-x-factor-2013-arena-auditions-and-when-through-to-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2560\/souli-roots-brought-reggae-to-the-arena-with-bob-marley-at-the-x-factor-2013-arena-auditions-and-when-through-to-bootcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Souli Roots brought Reggae to the arena with Bob Marley at The X Factor 2013 arena auditions and when through to Bootcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>34 year old Souli Roots brought the sound of Jamaican Reggae to The X Factor 2013 arena auditions and gets everyone in the party mood with her rendition of a Bob Marley classic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/souli-roots.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/souli-roots.png\" alt=\"souli roots x factor arena\" title=\"souli roots x factor arena\" width=\"421\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/souli-roots.png 421w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/souli-roots-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican born singer even got Louis Walsh to reveal that he\u2019s a big reggae fan \u2013who would have thought it.<\/p>\n<p>Looking very much like a Reggae star with the old crazy hair thing going on, Souli sang \u00a0Three Little Birds by the late Bob Marley and we loved the vibe. And so it would seem did the judges, because by \u00a0the middle of her song, they were all up, dancing and smiling along.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Gary admitted that he wasn\u2019t convinced by her singing talent though and told Roots:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had a great time today but it\u2019s got to come down to the vocals, they weren\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in the end the other three judges saw something in her and sent her to bootcamp with three yesses.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vorflkMZWys?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34 year old Souli Roots brought the sound of Jamaican Reggae to The X Factor 2013 arena auditions and gets everyone in the party mood with her rendition of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/souli-roots.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}