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Updated: March 5, 2024 @ 9:22 pm
Kyra Waits is going to Hollywood!
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Kyra Waits is going to Hollywood!
Berea local Kyra Waits emerged from her American Idol audition victorious — she’s going to Hollywood!
Waits previously disclosed to the Register that, even though the environment was “welcoming” and she felt close to the other American Idol hopefuls, she was nervous during her audition.
However, the fear did not overcome Waits as she belted “Up to the Mountain” by Patty Griffin to judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Ritchie.
After Waits ended her song, Perry asked, “I know it’s all about God’s timing, but why did it take so long?”
Waits replied shyly, “I guess I just wasn’t giving enough, but I tried my best here today.”
Judges Bryan, Ritchie, and Perry all praised Waits through her self-doubt.
Perry felt that Waits had a “great” audition, though it was a little “unrehearsed.”
She remarked, “You’ve got a huge voice in there that just needs some shaping. You’re a different kind of diamond in the rough.”
Bryan noted that he loved that “raw” sound in Waits’s voice.
“Big, big, big voice,” he said. “I love your cry that you have your voice. I love the volume. You’re just raw and young and new at all this.”
Ritchie’s comments focused primarily on Waits’s focus and tenacity.
He said, “You might have been here 100 times, as you said, but one thing was clear to me when you went to that note of the full scream. No fear! I thought, ‘She is not going to let this door close. Not one more time.’”
Waits’s best proved to be good enough, as she was unanimously passed through to the next round in Hollywood by the American Idol judges.
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