{"id":2812,"date":"2023-10-12T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2023-10-12T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:53:00","slug":"manny-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/manny-walters","title":{"rendered":"How Manny Walters Reached 15 Million Listeners with an Unreleased Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something unique about the power of live music. It has an ability to connect people from all walks of live, in all parts of the world, to a magical moment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Manny Walters turned up to Sofar&#8217;s inaugural show in his hometown, Cape Town, unsure of what to expect. Unveiling a new song, <em>My Own Fault<\/em>, a track only ever performed in the privacy of his home, he won over the room with his performance. Soon after, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmLbBOpaiZs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we shared the video<\/a> and he won over the internet, racking up over 15 million views and becoming one of Sofar&#8217;s most watched performances ever.<\/p>\n<p>Join Manny as we look back at that day, as Manny tells us how this moment changed his life forever.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In The Moment: Manny Walters &#039;My Own Fault&#039; | Sofar Cape Town\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moVdH1XLX64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ready to discover more amazing artists? <a href=\"http:\/\/sofarsounds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out shows near you.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something unique about the power of live music. It has an ability to connect people from all walks of live, in all parts of the world, to a magical moment. In 2017 Manny Walters turned up to Sofar&#8217;s inaugural show in his hometown, Cape Town, unsure of what to expect. Unveiling a new song, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-videos","tag-manny-walters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}