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Warning! The following contains spoilers for the American Idol Season 19 finale. Read at your own risk!
American Idol s Season 19 finale was a three-hour epic with tons of cameos and performances, and the ending was certainly a surprise to some. It turns out that wasn t the only surprise of the night, as a previously planned performance with former two-time contestant Arthur Gunn and Sheryl Crow had to be changed last minute. Season 19 s Graham DeFranco was there to fill in, but why wasn t Gunn present at the finale to do his performance?
Arthur Gunn s absence was apparently even a mystery to the judges of
American Idol.
A Checotah, Okla., native, Underwood had been singing in church, at school and at local event since she was a kid. After high school, though, she gave up singing in an effort to be practical and find a more likely future career path. To that end, Underwood was in college at Oklahoma s Northeastern State University, studying mass communication with a focus on journalism, when she auditioned for
American Idol in 2004.
Underwood s audition happened in St. Louis that August. She sang Bonnie Raitt s I Can t Make You Love Me for judges Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson and earned a golden ticket to the show s Hollywood Round. Slowly but surely, she progressed through the competition: into the Top 24, then the Top 20 and so on.
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