Jimmie Allen was overcome watching Mike Parker bring his legacy to life.
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Skyler Maxey-Wert brought a unique element to his “American Idol” audition that the judges “have never experienced.”.
The 25-year-old artist may be a professional ballet dancer but he’s also an impressive singer who was encouraged to audition for the show by Incubus’s Brandon Boyd, after the lead vocalist came across one of Maxey-Wert’s singing videos on his Instagram page.
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The Pennsylvania native has been perfecting the art of ballet for 20 years. He began studying the highly technical form of dance at the age of five and attended the prestigious Lancaster School of Ballet and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre. At age 18, Maxey-Wert moved to Germany, where he now resides, to launch his dance career and is currently the Second Soloist with Semperoper Ballett, after getting promoted in 2020.
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Maxey-Wert has always had a passion for singing and participated in open mic from time to time but has been on “such a specific path for so long” that he never “took the time to invest” in himself as a singer until now.
“One day Brandon Boyd reached out and he said, ‘I think you’re talented. If you want to, I think you should audition for ‘American Idol’,” Maxey-Wert told “Idol” judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan.
His audition cover of Donny Hathaway’s “For All We Know” wowed the judges and earned him a standing ovation.
Richie complimented his talent, calling it “a gift to ‘American Idol’,” while Bryan noted that if he incorporates ballet into his singing performances
Jimmie Allen was overcome watching Mike Parker bring his legacy to life.
Long Island-native Christian Guardino struck a major chord with the judges on ABC’s “American Idol,” earning him a spot among the show’s top 24 contestants — and a trip to Hawaii to compete at Disney’s Aulani resort. Guardino, 22, was born with a rare condition that causes blindness, but he beat the odds and is now on the road making a name for himself on one of the industry’s biggest stages — which he told The Post’s Angela Barbuti is “so exciting — but it’s craziness.” Can you explain the condition you had as a kid? I was born with a rare disorder called Leber congenital amaurosis, but we call it LCA. It’s a disorder that causes a gene that’s missing in your eye, because if the gene isn’t there, it’s not producing proteins that your cells need to live, so they all start to die off and then it causes inevitable blindness.
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Katy Perry shared a maternal moment with two moms-to-be during Sunday's episode of Contestants Haley Slaton and Sam Moss were paired up to sing a duet after Sam announced that she was, in fact, four months pregnant. «Since my audition, life has thrown me a huge curveball,» Sam shared. «Becoming a mom this year was not part of my plan, but it brings a whole new reason and motivation to continue to do what I love.» Haley, who had been pregnant during her initial audition, was in her eighth month during the pre-taped performance and both contestants struggled with emotions and endurance as they prepared for their duet of Robyn's «Dancing On My Own.» Katy pulled the women aside to give them a pep talk before the performance and the moment left her in tears. «My lifelong thing is I'm never enough,» Katy shared with the singers.
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her Instagram page, and her dad’s. For her audition song, Maybee opted for Stevie Wonder’s “Lately,” and she surprised the judges with her alto voice.“It’s a cool alto sound,” judge Katy Perry commented.Luke Bryan was similarly impressed.
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contestants are keeping it in the family! Former top eight finalist Nadia Turner got the surprise of a lifetime during season 20’s fourth auditions episode on Sunday, after getting tricked into attending her daughter, Zaréh’s audition, on the guise that they were headed out to enjoy a mother-daughter spa day.Zaréh, not only competed on the show 17 years after her mother but wore the same gold halter top for her audition that Nadia wore to her audition for the show's fourth season in 2005. Season 4 is the season Carrie Underwood famously won, after going head-to-head with Bo Bice.With the help of Ryan Seacrest and the American Idol crew, Zaréh was able to fool her mom, blindfolding her and bringing her to the show's set for the big reveal.Ryan was there to meet Nadia and once he took her hands and said his signature, «This… is ,» the jig was up.
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. The 23-year-old musician auditioned during Sunday's episode while five and a half months pregnant with a baby boy.«Being on the show pregnant is actually not going to be an obstacle for me,» Haley assured viewers on Sunday, telling host Ryan Seacrest that she'd already named her little guy, Jaelyn. She performed Miley Cyrus' «The Climb» for judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan, who all seemed to be on the fence after the performance. Luke called the audition «not perfect,» saying, «There were some amateur moments, but then there were some real moments.
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as contestant Sam Finelli faced his fears and auditioned for judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan. The 28-year-old bakery assistant opened up about his struggles with autism, expressing how music helped him get through a difficult childhood.«I don't connect with people very well. It's just a small part of who I am,» Sam explained.