Alright, who's watching the final year (15th season) of American Idol?? I am! I mean, I've been watching well I can't say since the beginning because that would be a lie but I have been watching since the year Carrie Underwood won. Who knew? My first year watching = having one of the best winners.
Anyways, last year it was announced that American Idol would only have one more season. Due to ratings and other competition (The Voice) so there were going to be a lot of tough decisions that were going to be made to find the LAST American Idol.
As they say, Kelly Clarkson was the first page of the American Idol book and the winner of this season will be the ending so it kind of has to go out with a strong finish.
Now this season so far from the auditions, I have a few that I picked so far who I think might be the winner and one of those was John Wayne Schulz, a previous contestant who just missed the Top 24 back on season 10.
Here's his audition video from that season:
Credit: John, American Idol, FOX,
and AmericanIdolFan2011
Even though, he didn't make the Top 24 (Scotty McCreery made it instead and won), John decided to come back for the final season to honor his mom who sadly passed away a few months after his return from Season 10.
He came back and auditioned with the song "The Dance" by Garth Brooks and he nailed it with his smooth voice and emotion that he gave when singing the song, as well doing it in a different way than Garth did. Here. See it for yourself:
Credit: American Idol, FOX, and John Wayne Schulz
I mean come on, he was perfect! Again, with his smooth country voice, emotion, and different rendition of the song. OK, it does help that he also has the looks as well.
I remembered him from Season 10 and knew that I would be cheering for him for the rest of the season because I felt that he had a great chance to win the big thing. He has the whole package: the looks, the voice, the personality, and more.
When the show got to Hollywood week, they didn't show him too much so we weren't necessarily sure if he made it passed the first round but he did on Twitter say that he did. Then it was up for the group round. Again, we didn't see him much but we did get a glimpse of his group and he made it through the round again.
Then it came to the final solo performance before the Idol contestants get a chance to perform LIVE to prove the judges that they can make it to Top 24.
BUT while John was preparing for the final performance on the Hollywood stage, he lost his hat! His lucky cowboy hat. Can anyone say "oh no!"? He's not the same without the hat. Ok he's still who he is without that hat but the hat completes him. You know what I mean?
Credit: American Idol, FOX, and John Wayne Schulz
As you notice, he sang Keith Urban's song John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16 and to me, he was really good. It also looked like Keith Urban liked it as he sang along with him.
But unfortunately, it wasn't good enough. The judges separated the remainder of the contestants into three rooms and sadly John was in the room that did not move to the next round. I was disappointed and I'm sure lots of people were as he was for us "the one to beat".
The following night (Thursday) the 51 remaining contestants faced the audience and the judges announced the Top 24. To me, there may be two or three country singers but none like John Wayne Schulz.
But have no fear even though he's not on American Idol anymore, he's still working on his music career as he now is being managed.
So now that it's finally aired I can officially announce that John Wayne Schulz is being co-managed by yours truly as...
Posted by Jimmy Swan on Wednesday, February 3, 2016
So I have a feeling John will be making it in the country music world. Oh, you're probably wondering if he ever found his hat, right? Don't worry, someone asked him in a tweet and he answered that person saying that the hat is now safe and sound with him!
Ok, going back to John. Not only does he now have managers but he also has his version of "The Dance" on iTunes and Amazon. I completely recommend buying/downloading the song to show your support for him and to show that he definitely should've been in the Top 24.
Here is the song on his YouTube page:
Credit: John Wayne Schulz and the producers
If you are a country music fan as I am, you would love him and support him in anything he has in the future. I know, I sure. I'm a fan for life. Because like I previously wrote above, he's the whole package and is something that country radio needs and wants.
Go Follow John Wayne Schulz on all of his social media (the ones I know of) accounts:
Until Next Time
CGoerlich <3
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