{"id":37338,"date":"2018-06-20T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=37338"},"modified":"2018-06-20T17:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:30:55","slug":"sinitta-shines-with-pride-with-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/sinitta-shines-with-pride-with-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinitta &#8216;Shines With Pride&#8217; With New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37340\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/sinitta-shines-with-pride-with-new-single\/sinitta\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sinitta.jpg?fit=3500%2C3500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3500,3500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sinitta\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sinitta.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37340 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sinitta.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It&#8217;s Pride Month so what better than for Sinitta &#8211; the Godmother of Pride &#8211; to release a new single! &#8216;Shine With Pride&#8217; is the first track from her eagerly anticipated new album, her first since the 1990s.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Shine With Pride&#8217; will be released this Friday, 22 June, through Avenoir Records. Sinitta has written and recorded a series of original songs, allowing her to express the highs and lows of her life to date. Never fear however &#8211; the fun is still there. She now feels it&#8217;s her time, and is taking the chance to express how she feels, and who she really is &#8211; in her words,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cbeing a fighter with no courage but my faith and praying for love and fun forever\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The album is set to touch on many of Sinitta&#8217;s life experiences, including growing up as part of an ethnic minority in a segregated music and television industry, being female and vulnerable but with attitude, as a straight ally within the LGBT community, as a pastor in the Hillsong Church, a hopeless romantic and above all a mother.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37339\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/sinitta-shines-with-pride-with-new-single\/sinitta-purple-shine-with-pride\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sinitta-Purple-shine-With-Pride.jpg?fit=601%2C601&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"601,601\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sinitta Purple shine With Pride\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sinitta-Purple-shine-With-Pride.jpg?fit=601%2C601&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-37339 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sinitta-Purple-shine-With-Pride.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Shine With Pride&#8217; is a total dance floor anthem, and specifically highlights Sinitta&#8217;s mission to bring equality and awareness to the LGBT community, with whom she has a longstanding relationship, and is an ambassador. She&#8217;s even been given the honorary title of &#8220;Godmother Of Pride&#8221;. Even better, Pride in London have teamed up with Avenoir and Sinitta to officially name &#8216;Shine With Pride&#8217; their anthem for this year&#8217;s celebrations!<\/p>\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;Shine With Pride&#8217; is the first in a series of songs to be released in line with the anticipated publication of, &#8216;Who Put The Sin In Sinitta?&#8217;, her video book &#8211; aka &#8220;Vook&#8221;, which will be presented in conjunction with a major leading publisher, later this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can pre-order &#8216;Shine With Pride&#8217; from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/album\/shine-with-pride-ep\/1398805695?app=itunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>. Find Sinitta online on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sinittaofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SinittaOfficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesinittaofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and her <a href=\"http:\/\/sinitta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Pride Month so what better than for Sinitta &#8211; the Godmother of Pride &#8211; to release a new single! &#8216;Shine With Pride&#8217; is the first track from her eagerly anticipated new album, her first since the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37341,"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],"tags":[15063,15062,15058,375,15056,15057,15055,78,9760,304,15061,15060,15059],"class_list":["post-37338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-avenoir-records","tag-godmother-of-pride","tag-hillsong","tag-lgbt","tag-london-pride","tag-pride-in-london","tag-shine-with-pride","tag-singer","tag-sinitta","tag-songwriter","tag-video-book","tag-vook","tag-who-put-the-sin-in-sinitta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-9Ie","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26965,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/all-star-lineup-announced-for-livewire-festival-blackpool\/","url_meta":{"origin":37338,"position":0},"title":"All Star Lineup Announced For LIVEWIRE Festival Blackpool","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"24\/04\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This August Bank Holiday weekend, 25-27 August, Blackpool\u2019s Headlands Arena will be hosting some of the world\u2019s biggest musical stars for LIVEWIRE Festival, a new series of concerts.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Concerts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Concerts","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/concerts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/283_main_photo.jpg?fit=550%2C550&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/283_main_photo.jpg?fit=550%2C550&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/283_main_photo.jpg?fit=550%2C550&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28511,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/06\/livewire-festival-2017-announces-line-up-additions\/","url_meta":{"origin":37338,"position":1},"title":"LIVEWIRE Festival 2017 Announces Line-Up Additions","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"29\/06\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Livewire Festival announces the support acts for its inaugural year, which will feature Motown legends The Jacksons, who have just wowed Glastonbury audiences, as well as the first ever UK live performance for Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Concerts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Concerts","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/concerts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/livewire.png?fit=1200%2C1189&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/livewire.png?fit=1200%2C1189&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/livewire.png?fit=1200%2C1189&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/livewire.png?fit=1200%2C1189&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/livewire.png?fit=1200%2C1189&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":67263,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/01\/paul-jacks-foolish-pride-and-big-lie\/","url_meta":{"origin":37338,"position":2},"title":"Paul Jacks Channels The 80s With &#8216;Foolish Pride&#8217; 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