Perth-based teenager Jordan Anthony is over the moon with pleasure after profitable a golden ticket to American Idol’s prime 20.
Plucked from relative obscurity — the 19-year-old from the northern suburbs has the social platform TikTok to thank for his abilities being found overseas.
“I was singing a Teddy Swims song literally sitting in my car. That was the video that was found, saying, ‘We really like your voice, have you heard of American Idol?’”
Taken aback, Anthony supplied a powerful “yes” to the prospect of auditioning in entrance of judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan for a spot within the competitors.
But there was a slight hiccup.
“Do you know that I’m on the other side of the world?” he requested producers.
“We do now!” they stated.
Every week later the teen was on his approach to Santa Barbara in California, the place he impressed the musical icons together with his rendition of Lewis Capaldi’s Forget Me.
Admitting his enterprise into songwriting on the age of seven was a mechanism to deal with being bullied, the rising star discovered his “tribe” in musical theatre and hasn’t seemed again.
“I was very much in that world from pretty young. But through my experiences of bullying throughout most of my early schooling, I came home one day and I just wrote my very first song,” he revealed.
“I found it so healing to be able to come home and put pen to paper, and express those emotions.”
Now a assured younger man with the world at his ft, he admitted stepping in entrance of his idols for the primary time was daunting.
“It didn’t really feel real. I honestly felt like I was walking through Madame Tussaud’s or something,” he recalled.
Following appearances on The Voice and Junior Eurovision in his youthful years, Anthony is hoping to trip this new alternative so far as he can.
But with household and connection on the coronary heart of his journey by way of music, it’s not been simple conserving it to himself.
The new season of American Idol is coming quickly to 7plus.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
