{"id":6617,"date":"2017-06-12T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2017-06-12T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:29:01","slug":"tennille-antoinette-cathryn-toni-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6617","title":{"rendered":"TENNILLE, ANTOINETTE CATHRYN, &#8220;TONI&#8221;, 1940-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter; keyboardist.\u00a0 Born May 8, 1940, Montgomery.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Frank and Cathryn Tennille.\u00a0 Family moved to Balboa, California, in 1959.\u00a0Married; Kenneth Shearer; married Daryl Dragon. \u00a0Education&#8211;attended Auburn University; performed with the musical group Auburn Knights as a student.\u00a0 Formed the popular duo &#8220;The Captain and Tennille&#8221; with her husband Daryl Dragon in 1973; earned five gold albums; six gold singles, two platinum albums and one platinum single.\u00a0 Won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toni Tennille; A Memoir.\u00a0 Taylor Trade Publishing, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Singer-songwriter; keyboardist.\u00a0 Born May 8, 1940, Montgomery.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Frank and Cathryn Tennille.\u00a0 Family moved to Balboa, California, in 1959.\u00a0Married; Kenneth Shearer; married Daryl Dragon. \u00a0Education&#8211;attended Auburn University; performed with the musical group Auburn Knights as a student.\u00a0 Formed the popular duo &#8220;The Captain and Tennille&#8221; with her husband Daryl Dragon in 1973; earned five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}