{"id":4411,"date":"2016-02-05T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?post_type=kortnieuws&#038;p=4411"},"modified":"2016-02-05T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:03:59","slug":"oscar-zia-komt-uit-de-kast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/uncategorized\/oscar-zia-komt-uit-de-kast\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Zia comes out of the closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">* Automatically translated *<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Swedish singer Oscar Zia, who takes office on 20 February in <em>Melodifestivalen<\/em>, has disclosed that he is homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish <em>Melodifestivalen<\/em> continues to shake this year, while the competition only opens on Saturday. After <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/landen\/zweden\/svt-ontslaat-charlotte-perrelli-als-co-presentatrice-melodifesitvalen\/\" target=\"_blank\">the dismissal of Charlotte Perrelli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/landen\/zweden\/diskwalificatie-in-melodifestivalen-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">the disqualification of Anna Book<\/a> this morning came the news that girls Idol Oscar Zia has come out of the closet.<\/p>\n<p>He found the time now to come out since he brings <em>Human<\/em> in two weeks in the third heat of <em>Melodifestivalen<\/em>. &#8216; This song is so personal. It&#8217;s about the doubts and concerns that I knew. I can not on stage knowing that I have a role to play, &#8220;says the 19-year-old singer who participate in <em>Melodifestivalen<\/em>for the third time, for the second time as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>The singer admits that he long doubted about his <em>coming out<\/em> has fear for his career. &#8216; Now I&#8217;m in harmony with myself. I keep the same person, perhaps even a better, &#8216; he says.<\/p>\n<p>This morning he already posted a picture on instagram. He just got heartwarming comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:600px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:38.3333333333% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BBZXSQ7xah1\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Godmorgon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by OSCAR | ZIA (@oscarzia) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-02-05T07:32:07+00:00\">April 4, 2016 at 11:32 pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His song for Melodifestivalen &#8216; is about the doubts that he has had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[566,649,35,628,178,44],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gay","tag-homo","tag-melodifestivalen","tag-oscar-zia","tag-sweden","tag-zweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}