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Hunter Behrman of American Idol Season 22

American Idol returns Sunday, Feb. 18, with Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan once again serving as judges.

Here’s more about Hunter:

* Hunter is worship pastor at New Life Church in Liberty Hill, Texas, where he’s been serving for about six years.

* He’s also the youth pastor there along with his wife Lindsey, according to his website bio.

* Hunter grew up in the Canton, Ohio, area and began singing in church at a young age.

* In an interview with the Liberty Hill Independent, Hunter recalled that his family sang at a large church in Ohio that had multiple services each Sunday.

* “One Sunday, they had six services. I had to sing at all six. By the last one, I was so tired that they stuck me on a stool and I feel asleep on it with a microphone in my hand.” He was only 5 or 6 at the time.

* Hunter was being interviewed by the newspaper because he was one of 10 singers selected as finalists in the 2023 Hallelujah Auditions — a Christian music American Idol style competition.

* Hunter performed “Gratitude” by Brandon Lake at the finals in Burlington, Iowa, last May. You can check out a snippet of the performance below. Aaron Coulson was the Hallelujah Auditions Season 3 champ.

* On social media, Hunter credited the competition for helping him get more comfortable as a singer and performer. “Before entering in to this competition I had never even posted a video of myself singing,” he writes in one Instagram post.

* Hunter announced his American Idol audition on TikTok with an impressive cover of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” He had posted a photo from his audition on Instagram in mid-December.

* And in another post, he celebrates being able to check off a childhood dream — auditioning for Idol. “I’m grateful to the producers who put me through and most of all to God for giving me the ability to do what I love to do,” he writes.

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