In honour of Black History Month, Sony Music asked its artists to share a few thoughts about who influenced them.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Tenpenny says it was Michael Jackson and Usher that set him on the course.<\/p>\n
“Obviously I go straight to music from Michael Jackson to Usher early on I was just obsessed with their music, their melodies, how they danced. I just wanted to be like that and they just kind of influenced how I create music, how I write music, how I sing melodically. I sung to their records all the time. I know there\u2019s not a doubt in the world that I would be here without their music and their influence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In honour of Black History Month, Sony Music asked its artists to share a few thoughts about who influenced them.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":83286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[7001,7034,1802,7035,7036],"class_list":["post-85260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-black-history-month","tag-michael-jackson","tag-mitchell-tenpenny","tag-sony-music","tag-usher"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 21:08:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/02\/mitchell-tenpenny-on-how-michael-jackson-and-usher-influenced-him\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}