It\u2019s been a big year for Bay Area singer Kehlani, who returned to her hometown of Oakland Monday to celebrate her new self-titled album and thank supporters.<\/p>\n
Fans lined up down the street and around 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland\u2019s Temescal district. Thousands bought the album and then waited for hours to meet and chat with the artist.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOakland music artist Kehlani speaks after performing at a downtown rally to celebrate Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Grammy-winning singer also spoke about her impact on the local music scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s big for the community because so much beautiful R&B comes out of the Bay Area, and it\u2019s time for that to be really recognized,\u201d Kehlani told NBC Bay Area. \u201cThere\u2019s so many great artists here that can see what I do and see that they can also do it too. I\u2019m really proud to be part of that legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kehlani\u2019s upcoming schedule is packed.<\/p>\n
Following the Oakland event, she is set to receive a Billboard Women in Music award before returning to tour in the Bay Area and the United Kingdom starting next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a big year for Bay Area singer Kehlani, who returned to her hometown of Oakland Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-289008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}