{"id":742701,"date":"2026-08-19T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:14:08","slug":"the-communards-sarah-jane-morris-on-female-music-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742701\/","title":{"rendered":"The Communards&#8217; Sarah Jane Morris on female music inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former singer in The Communards says that researching her female musical inspirations has helped her to &#8220;fall in love&#8221; with their stories and helped her produce music in their honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Jane Morris cited Tracey Chapman, Amy Winehouse and modern artists including Raye among her inspirations, some of whom she has dedicated songs to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer-songwriter discussed her female musical inspirations ahead of performing her second concept album of songs written about and inspired by Chapman, Winehouse and Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morris, from St Leonards in West Sussex, said: &#8220;I wanted to find out about the singer-songwriters who had paved the way for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morris added: &#8220;I realised I was falling in love with their journey and realised how much they did shape popular music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The stories are all about men, so I realised it could be an album.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former singer in The Communards says that researching her female musical inspirations has helped her to &#8220;fall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}