{"id":36374,"date":"2018-05-29T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=36374"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:39:29","slug":"judith-hill-the-pepper-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/judith-hill-the-pepper-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Hill &#8211; &#8216;The Pepper Club&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36375\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/judith-hill-the-pepper-club\/judith-hill-press\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Judith-Hill-Press.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Judith Hill &amp;#8211; Press\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Judith-Hill-Press.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Judith-Hill-Press.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Judith Hill has performed backing vocals for Michael Jackson, Josh Brogan, and Stevie Wonder; she additionally dueted with Jackson on &#8216;I Just Can&#8217;t Stop Loving You&#8217; during his &#8216;This Is It&#8217; tour. She opened for on John Legend&#8217;s &#8216;All Of Me&#8217; tour in 2014, and had her debut album produced by Prince. Judith auditioned for season four of The Voice, broadcast in 2013, singing Christina Aguilera&#8217;s song, &#8216;What A Girl Wants&#8217;, causing all four judges &#8211; Adam Levine, Shakira, Usher, and Blake Shelton all pressing their buttons and turning their chairs to choose her. Eventually she chose to join Team Adam, who said, &#8220;She&#8217;s going to be a Grammy-winning superstar, and she&#8217;s on my team&#8221;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;The Pepper Club&#8217;, Hill&#8217;s latest release, is a fierce funk-pop &#8211; a sixties feeling song with a modern edge. The track has everything Hill is known for: fantastic delivery, exquisite sense of rhythm, and of course her wonderful voice. The song comes with a a fun, dance music video, with director Jon Jon Augustavo transforming a truck-stop petrol station, diner, and motel into a playground, for joyous performers. The camera lens swirls around Judith and her collaborators, joining in as they dance around the floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Choreographer Misha Gabriel, who&#8217;s known for working with the likes of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson, and Hill says that Gabriel &#8220;played an integral part in making this video magical.&#8221; The synchronised dance routines nonetheless allow each diner patron to express their personality. Urban dance pioneer Bradley Rapier plays Mr. Tibbs;\u00a0So You Think You Can Dance?\u00a0Season 14 winner Lex Ishimoto plays Charlie; Ishimoto\u2019s girlfriend (and fellow\u00a0SYTYCD\u00a0contestant), Taylor Sieve, plays Charity; well-known choreographer Tessandra Chavez plays Georgia Mae; Travis Wolfe Jr., an incredible new talent, plays Penny; and the cast is rounded out by the stunning Melany Centeno playing Josephina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/judithhill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judith Hill<\/a> from her official website and <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/JudithHillOfficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_85970\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DS_KY_Y-V5k?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Judith Hill - The Pepper Club (Official Music Video)\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DS_KY_Y-V5k\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Hill has performed backing vocals for Michael Jackson, Josh Brogan, and Stevie Wonder; she additionally dueted with Jackson on &#8216;I Just Can&#8217;t Stop Loving You&#8217; during his &#8216;This Is It&#8217; tour. She opened for on John Legend&#8217;s &#8216;All Of Me&#8217; tour in 2014, and had her debut album produced by Prince. Judith auditioned for season four of The Voice, broadcast in 2013, singing Christina Aguilera&#8217;s song, &#8216;What A Girl Wants&#8217;, causing all four judges &#8211; Adam Levine, Shakira, Usher, and Blake Shelton all pressing their buttons and turning their chairs to choose her. Eventually she chose to join Team Adam, who said, &#8220;She&#8217;s going to be a Grammy-winning superstar, and she&#8217;s on my team&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,640],"tags":[11893,14545,1217,14542,3531,376,14544,491,78,304,14543,2837],"class_list":["post-36374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-adam-levine","tag-janet-jackson","tag-john-legend","tag-judith-hill","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-michael-jackson","tag-misha-gabriel","tag-prince","tag-singer","tag-songwriter","tag-the-pepper-club","tag-the-voice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-9sG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57136,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/11\/star-studded-evening-of-festive-music-and-merriment\/","url_meta":{"origin":36374,"position":0},"title":"Star-Studded Evening Of Festive Music And Merriment","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"12\/11\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Harry Shearer & Judith Owen Present... 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