‘American Idol’ Recap: The Judges Deliver A Heartwarming Military Surprise

The second night of prerecorded American Idol auditions Thursday included a stop in Little Rock as artists sang for their chance to appear in the competition’s final 15th season.

In addition to his audition, he was the focus of one of Idol”s heartstring-tugging backstory features, which focused on his late mother, who homeschooled Courtney, encouraged him to audition for Idol and died from cancer a few years ago”. You could see her voicing a Disney princess in an animated classic.

Olivia has some maturity in her voice despite her young age, and while her audition to “When I Was Your Man” could use a little more melody, she shows off a lot of depth and to us, it’s all but guaranteed she gets a golden ticket. Over the past 13 seasons, IDOL finalists have released more than 200 albums, scored 449 No. 1 Billboard hits, garnered more than 250 million iTunes downloads and have been certified with 95 Gold and 83 Platinum records.

WALTHAM, MA-The sayonara season of “American Idol” has only just begun, but American media is going insane about Massachusetts’s Sonica Vaid.

“I gotta be honest, I liked it”, Connick said. She sang a stunning rendition of “Creep” by Radiohead. Fuller, Seacrest, judges and contestants past and present, and music and entertainment journalists — including Shirley Halperin, who to used cover the show for this very blog – were summoned to employ phrases like “lightning in a bottle”, “power and impact” and “part of American history” to describe it.

Before Halimi’s audition, the 26-year-old Kosovo native told the story of her dramatic weight loss.

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McIntosh, a 10th grader from Nashville, Tennessee credits her mother who is now serving in the Army for the reason she got her audition in the first place. “You took this famous Andrew Lloyd Weber song and sang it like you wanted to sing it”, Connick said. “That was a flawless performance”, the judge said. “All my votes for Sonika Vaid”, wrote Carol Foley Beal, one of dozens of comments on Vaid’s Facebook page. “There’s too much goodness in here right now”, said Harry.

“She might win”, Lopez said”.