Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Her audition: Lillie Kolich, 25, Albuquerque, New Mexico, “Back to Friends” by sombr: Lillie sounded unique from the opening note and earned very quick chair turns from Kelly Clarkson, Riley Green and Adam Levine. Eventually, Lillie enticed Queen Latifah to turn as well, giving her the final four-chair turn of Season 30. Lillie delivered a lovely ending to her performance too. Riley called her performance “amazing” and promised to have her perform at his bar. Kelly called her tone “rad” and loved the way she made the song her own. Queen Latifah also praised her unique rendition of the song and suggested Lillie could win the show. Lillie joined Team Latifah, completing her Season 30 team. (Watch her audition below)

Here’s more about Lillie:

* She-s from Albuquerque, N.M., but she’s now based in Nashville and has already released music.

* In fact, Lillie already has two songs with more than 200,000 streams on Spotify alone — “paper cuts” and “I bet,” both from 2025.

* “I Bet” is a duet with Julia Devlin in which two women who have been hurt by the same man unite in heartbreak instead of turning one another into villains.

* Both tracks are featured on Lillie’s six-song debut EP Lorraine, which dropped in March. The title track is the first song she wrote after moving to Nashville and she says the EP “explores love and healing (after heartbreak), resentment toward other women, the forgiveness that follows, and who I’ve become along the way.”

* And Lillie has another song dropping on Sept. 18 called “aftertaste.” “My ex lives in New York and the first time I went back there after we broke up, I drunk cried in an Uber and wrote this chorus,” Lillie explains in one of her social media post.

* She attended the University of Evansville in Indiana, graduating in 2022 with a major in theater performance.

* Musically, she says her inspirations include Gracie Adams, Taylor Swift and Lizzy McAlphine and her goal is to write songs with “deeply specific story-telling” about “universally felt emotions.”

* Performance highlights for Lillie to date include being selected to perform at the release show for Zach Bryan’s “Great American Bar Scene” and returning home to New Mexico for a soldout headline show in 2024.

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