{"name":"John Phillips","title":"John Phillips","id":429,"slug":"john-phillips","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/429/?format=json","bio_short":"John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001), was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/The%2BMamas%2B%2526%2BThe%2BPapas\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">The Mamas &amp; The Papas</a>.  Phillips was born in Parris Island, South Carolina. His father was a retired United States Marine Corps officer who won an Oklahoma bar from another Marine in a poker game on the way home from France after World War I. His mother was a Cherokee  Native his father met in Oklahoma.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/JohnPhillips.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":536,"title":"California Dreaming","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/california-dreaming/"},{"id":518,"title":"Kokomo","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/kokomo/"},{"id":817,"title":"San Francisco","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/san-francisco/"},{"id":274,"title":"Sveitapiltsins draumur","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/sveitapiltsins-draumur/"}]}