Jennifer Lopez's vision of La'Porsha Renae and Trent Harmon
in the American Idol final comes true as Dalton Rapattoni is eliminated
Jennifer Lopez early during the final season of American
Idol predicted that La'Porsha Renae and Trent Harmon would be the last two
singers standing.
The 46-year-old singing superstar turned out to be right on
Wednesday as Dalton Rapattoni was eliminated and Mississippi singers La'Porsha
and Trent advanced to the finale.
When host Ryan Seacrest asked J-Lo who she thought might
take the title she initially said La’Porsha, but later told Trent he ‘deserves
to win’.
It’s so close,’ she mused indecisively.
J-Lo more than a month ago after watching Trent perform
said: ‘You’re amazing, I had a vision of you and La’Porsha at the end.'
One of the most moving performances of the night was
La’Porsha’s version of Rihanna’s love song Diamonds.
La’Porsha sang for her baby daughter, sobbing profusely when
the crowd began to chant her name.
‘It is the final,' J-Lo reminded him.
Jennifer then told La’Porsha: ‘I can’t wait to go to a show
of yours and see you let loose…just go off…I’m gonna be there.
‘I have nothing to say, it was amazing,’ said jazz pro Harry
Connick Jr.
La’Porsha’s performance was the highlight of the first half
of the two-part American Idol finale in its final 15th season.
Round one featured songs each of the three artists would
release if they were to win the Idol crown.
Round two included tracks picked for Trent and La'Porsha by
Idol’s creator, English entrepreneur Simon Fuller, 55.
This is gonna be the closest race in Idol history,’ said
Keith, 48.
‘I think it’s going to be the first time in a long time that
we’re going to have a real battle, agreed J-Lo.
Trent’s last song was Chandelier by Australian singer/
songwriter Sia.
‘You should be very proud of yourself,’ said Harry, 48.
‘I’m so grateful to be here,’ said the 25-year-old who did an R&B number called Falling, which demonstrated his vocal range.
His second song was picked by Fuller - If You Don’t Know Me By Now by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
It’s the best song that Freddie Mercury never wrote by the
way,’ chimed in Keith, who is married to Nicole Kidman.
‘I knew you’d be here in the final two…you deserve to win,’
said J-Lo, who’d previously decided that La’Porsha had the upper hand by a
small margin.
The Texan pop rocker Dalton Rapattoni was eliminated after
making it to the final three.
I’m just happy that America cared to listen for so long,’ he
said just before he left.
‘When you join a competition like this you want to find
success but you don’t think that you’re going to find yourself,’ he gushed,
saying that he’d learned a lot as ‘a human being’.
The 20-year-old’s swan song was a soft rock tune called
Strike A Match.
‘So Kelly, a woman started it, a woman’s gonna finish it,’
said the 22-year-old, referring to Kelly Clarkson who won the first season of
Idol in 2002.
La’Porsha’s first tune was a soaring ballad called Battles.
Fuller picked Dionne Warwick’s A House Is Not A Home for her
second tune.
J-Lo, who had been earnestly singing along from her desk,
screamed her approval.
‘That’s one of my top five songs of all time, I love Luther
Vandross’ version too, now we have the La’Porsha version,’ she praised
enthusiastically.
Harry praised her mastery of melody calling it the most
‘complex’ song she has done so far.
The last ever winner of Idol will be announced on Thursday.
Industry bigwig Scott Borchetta, who was wearing some kind
of reptile coat, will sign them to Big Machine Records.
The legacy of American Idol will live on through Big
Machine Records…it will be showtime, go time for real,’ said the 53-year-old
music executive.
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