{"id":300987,"date":"2026-06-09T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300987\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:36:08","slug":"sotd-6-9-26-i-remember-tampa-by-baluga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300987\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTD 6\/9\/26: I Remember Tampa by Baluga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"341\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-20.png\" class=\"attachment-260721 size-260721 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This week SOTD is featuring songs about Tampa Bay. WMNF Song of the Day exists to promote new, live, and local music. Every weekday, SOTD brings you a new song and information about upcoming events. You can help WMNF by contributing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.wmnf.org\/-\/NUTTFGGY?member=SPKBNGPB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WMNF Summer Fund Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">The WMNF Song of the Day for June 9, 2026 is \u201cI Remember Tampa\u201d by Baluga. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Baluja, born Miguel Baluja Jr. on April 29, 1957, in South\u00a0Tampa, is an independently produced singer-songwriter who has released nine CDs over the past decade and earned a degree in Mass Communications from\u00a0University of South Florida. Writing songs since 1976 at the age of 17, Baluja spent years crafting heartfelt music before seriously recording his work around 2000, often blending simple acoustic arrangements with loops and sampled rhythms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baluja\u2019s song \u201cI Remember Tampa\u201d stands out as a deeply personal love letter to his hometown, driven by a vibrant calypso-salsa beat and rich nostalgia. The lyrics paint vivid images of\u00a0McFarlane Park, moss-filled trees, and beloved landmarks and memories tied to old Tampa. The accompanying video features scenes from the\u00a0Tampa Bay Rowdies,\u00a0Elvis Presley, the \u201cOld Sombrero\u201d stadium, and Jai aLai.\u00a0 Mike shares this line with all who reminisce about Tampa, \u201cI remember\u00a0Tampa and she remembers\u00a0me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find more Baluja songs on <a href=\"https:\/\/baluja.bandcamp.com\/album\/i-remember-tampa-anthology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week SOTD is featuring songs about Tampa Bay. WMNF Song of the Day exists to promote new,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[126417,135,137,136,51018],"class_list":["post-300987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baluga","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wmnf-song-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}