Idol returned to ABC on Sunday, Feb. 18 with the coaching trio of Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan back intact.
Here’s more about Kennedy.
* This young woman from West Plains, Kentucky, is a mortician and country music artist.
* What’s makes her story truly unique is how the former led to more opportunities at the latter.
* Kennedy works as an embalmer for the owners of funeral homes in New Albany and Louisville, Ky., she explained to The News Enterprise last February.
* Twenty-two at the time, she’d been singing since she was young and performed at local jamborees.
* So when the owners of the funeral home opened a country music venue in West Point, Ky., they asked Kennedy to become their house singer. Check out her impressive cover of “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” below.
* She also emcees the weekly Grand Ole County Music Show.
* And as a result, she’s wound up performing with the Nashville Imposters and opening for Gene Watson, who recorded a number of hit country songs in the 1970s.
* In the interview with The News Enterprise, Kennedy said she was also invited to tour with the Nashville Imposters, who do a George Jones / Johnny Cash tribute show.
* Kennedy hasn’t released original music yet and recently launched an Instagram account to help promote her Idol appearance.
* And to take the singing mortician twist a step farther, there’s a video on her Facebook page in which she’s wheeled into the country music show inside a coffin, then pops the lid open to begin the show with the Linda Ronstadt hit “That’ll Be the Day.”
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