I saw these two guys in front of a video camera talking to people -- one had this jet black hair, the other had brown hair with frosted tips and it ended up being Brian Dunkleman and Ryan Seacrest. I remember going to a room in front of who I later found out was Ken Warwick and an assistant and I sang a verse and a chorus.
There had been rumors filtering down that Paula Abdul was there and there was this guy there who was unbelievably mean. I was nervous. I remember we crossed paths on the way to the bathroom and it was that super awkward moment of me trying to be a gentleman letting her go to the bathroom first and she very politely told me to go first.
W alking into the judge's room, it was such a dramatic moment. You had to walk through this massive sliding door as if you were walking through some medieval dungeon. I walk in and I saw the three judges. Paula was the only one that I knew. There was Nigel Lythgoe and a bunch of suits and people behind monitors. I focused on Paula, the one anchor I had in a sea of unknown faces, and I sang.
And I was very fortunate to be well-received. I had never been to California before. It was just so beautiful. When we landed in Los Angeles, they took us to Pasadena. Between LAX and Pasadena there were so many sights to see. Of course you want to see the Hollywood sign. I was just dying. I was fascinated by the weather. I was fascinated by the culture. The fact that they had crosswalks where you could cross diagonally, that was something I had never seen before.
I was 22 years old and completely green, yet I still understood the significance of the fact that when I was in Hollywood Week, I was dancing and singing on the same stage that Michael Jackson had done the moonwalk on.
Hollywood Week really weeds out the people who cannot keep up with the pace. It purposely puts you through the ringer, and Nigel told us that.
They told us it was going to be difficult, that they were going to put us through the paces and that we were going to struggle. They kept us protected from the public. They kept us protected from the press. There was an innocence and a family atmosphere.
You never really saw much of us in our downtime because they were protecting us so much, in the best ways, from being overwhelmed. They took such great care of us. There was a big mansion up off Mulholland Drive. It was absolutely beautiful, but it was meant to be used for video shoots and photo shoots.
That first week they started cutting folks and it got real, right away. The key to moving forward? Lopez seemed, frankly, stunned by the performance, sharing that, while she had initially been unsure about Mitchell, she had just been made a convert. The judges thought his song choice had been a copout.
She started too low, landed off pitch, and earned mostly pity from the audience. She won over both the audience and the judges. Thomas Stringfellow may not be the best singer in the competition he has a strange little squeak, for one thing , but he is certainly among the most appealing.
She sang the heck out of the song, while moving confidently across the stage and shaking the fringes on her dress like a pro. The album was released on Feb. The album was an instant hit, going to No. A few months later he was dropped by his record label, RCA Records. On the bright side, he spent much of touring internationally, and the Illinois native got engaged to girlfriend Jonna Walsh in July The couple married in fall A crotch-grabbing performance by Usher earlier this season offered but one example of the family-unfriendly antics that make some traditionalists wince.
Of course, music has been incorporated into the worship services of many faiths for centuries. Most church music stayed there. Recently, the show tumbled to its lowest numbers since Scott Thumma, a scholar at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research who has written widely about mega-churches, recalls visiting a youth service at a large church in the Washington, D.
The entertainment portion featured dramatic stage lighting and electric guitars. The music played in mega-churches can extend far beyond the gospel or Christian pop one might expect.
Danny Gokey, who finished No.
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