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Is American Idol Marybeth Byrd’s first singing competition? Meet the season 21 contestant before the premiere episode

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American Icon is set to get back with another season this week and will invite new ability to its stage. The primary episode will highlight vocalists from New Orleans, Las Vegas, and Nashville.

The debut episode’s summation peruses:

“With assistance from hotshot passes judgment on Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, watchers set out on a cross country search across New Orleans, Las Vegas and Nashville to track down the following singing sensation.”

The forthcoming American Symbol contender Marybeth Byrd has recently showed up on TV and partaken in another singing unscripted TV drama. In 2019, she was one of the competitors that contended in NBC’s The Voice season 17 where she came to the Main 8 under John Legend’s group.

During her visually impaired tryout, she performed Heavenly messenger from Montgomery and turned every one of the four seats in any case settled on needing to go in Legend’s group.

During the show, the Main 13 were approached to devote a tune to somebody who enlivened them, and the forthcoming American Symbol season 21 vocalist committed a melody to her late granddad who spent away the day preceding her visually impaired tryouts.

In the episode, she made sense of that her preferred melody, Go Lay High on that Mountain, was one that she and her granddad frequently played together. While she battled with her sadness, her coach urged her to involve it in her exhibition, and that is the very thing she did.

“I can’t imagine a superior method for respecting his memory than for me to do what he maintained that me should do from the day I was born. I realize he has the best seat in the house for Monday.”

The adjudicators were intrigued by her presentation and Blake Shelton told her that her exhibition helped him to remember his late dad and that he knew precisely the way in which she felt attempting to overcome it. He added that he couldn’t actually pay attention to a similar tune some of the time since it’s so tragic.


John Legend said by sharing her distress, she permitted the country to see the pieces of her that made her what her identity is and that she turned into a vocalist and a performer due to her granddad.

The impending American Symbol candidate is as of now 21 years of age and an understudy at Arkansas State College which she goes to practically. In 2021, she was the beneficiary of the Youthful Craftsman of the Year grant from the Kansas Down home Music Grants.

“One of her objectives is to be a good example for other youthful specialists attempting to track down their sound, certainty, and way in the extreme business of music. Most importantly and prior to whatever else, she believes her life should celebrate God and to favor others.” Tune in on Sunday, February 19, at 8 pm ET to see what happens when American Symbol season 21 debuts on ABC.