Brajawn Upshaw of American Idol Season 23 (ABC Photo)
Idol kicked off Season 23 on March 9 with Carrie Underwood joining Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan at the judges’ table.
Audition episodes will continue to air each Sunday until Hollywood Week begins.
Here’s more about Brajawn.
* He’s a 22-year-old from Cleveland, Ohio, now living in Temple, Ga.
* He works as a mail handler and his Idol audition came as something of “an unexpected surprise,” he told his hometown newspaper.
* That’s because his mother Tasha, realizing her son’s love of music, signed him up for his initial audition with the show.
* Brajawn told the newspaper he’s loved music since being introduced to it by his third-grade teacher.
* Since then, he’s been involved in choir, in an acapella group and taken dance and acting lessons.
* Brajawn also apparently writes music. In a Jan. 19 social media post, he writes that he was performing a song of his own for the first time.
* He has more than 62,000 followers and 650,000 likes on his TikTok.
* Idol leaked a portion of his audition. He says he was inspired by watching a documentary of Luke Bryan in which his father encouraged him to follow his dreams, promising he could return home to the family farm if it didn’t work out.
* Brajawn sang “Lovely” by Billie Eilish and Khalid for his audition and had all three judges applauding by the end of the performance.
* In announcing his Idol audition, Brajawn writes: ” Imagine watching the world go round for years and only having a few things that make you smile. This show was one of those things for me.”
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