UPDATE: "Singing baby" Melanie Amaro wins X Factor USA!
“Tens of thousands of hopeful singers auditioned. Based on your votes we are down to the final two. Who has America chosen as the winner?....The winner of the X Factor is...,” there was a total 13 seconds that expired before the announcer final eased the pain and shouted “Melanie Amaro”.
The 19 year old was stunned and then burst into tears before dropping to her knees and loudly thanked God for her amazing victory. For her effort she won a $5M recording contract and the chance to perform a Pepsi Commercial at the Super Bowl.
Earlier, the competition was further narrowed down to Josh Krajcik and Amaro after Chris Rene was eliminated midway in the two-hour finale that also saw performances by 50 Cent, Pitbull, Justin Bieber, Stevie Wonder and Leona Lewis.
After much tears and celebration Melanie was finally able to utter the words “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,” and then “Thank you so much, I am so happy and I don’t know what to say. This is something I wanted all my life”.
The 19-year-old Amaro, who was born in Florida but spent a number of her childhood days in the Virgin islands, had been tipped by the four judges to win following a powerful rendition of Beyonce's hit "Listen".
Amaro gets a $5 million contract with Simon Cowell's Sony Music-owned record label SyCo and a starring role in a new commercial from sponsor Pepsi.
“I want to say to America thank you for giving this girl the opportunity. She is going to represent this country. She is a star...,” said Cowell, who brought the show to American television after making it the most-watched in his native Britain. "We came here to find a superstar and we found a superstar," said Cowell.Krajcik, 30, who worked in a burrito restaurant before joining the show said “I feel amazing. Melanie deserves it, she has a wonderful voice. I got such an incredible experience here. I got to be myself, sing what I want to sing and I couldn’t be happier”.
Prior to the announcement of the winner, Melanie’s mother Deborah Sylvester Amaro said “I am proud, I am very excited. I am happy to see that Melanie is living her dream singing as a little girl. I love you Melanie, congratulations and all the best to you”.
In a previous interview with this news agency, Melanie’s mother, Deborah Sylvester Amaro had revealed her daughter is a “wonderful and humble young lady.”Giving a recap of Melanie’s early singing career, Mrs. Amaro traces it back to her pregnancy and Melanie’s infant stage.
“When I was pregnant with her, we are Christians, when I went for a revival meeting, the minister that was preaching called me up out of the crowd and told me, he put a song in my baby’s heart and she will always be singing,” Mrs. Amaro recalled, noting that she was seven months pregnant and didn’t even know she was having a girl baby.
She recalled when Melanie was just about six months old she would get up around 2 a.m. and would sing. “We don’t know what she is singing and she would go back to sleep and she hasn’t stopped singing since.”
She said her daughter has never really entered competitions before but was always singing at weddings, churches and other events.
Regarding her entrance into X-Factor in April 2011 and how she decided to get into it, Mrs. Amaro revealed that she pushed her daughter to enter into the competition and today is proud of that decision.
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