2008 Woodie Awards
'Idol' hopefuls drive for the goal
Issue date: 10/26/05 Section: News
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Three North Greenville students could have been the next Kelly Clarkson, or the next William Hung.
Setnick Sene, senior broadcast media; Brooke Stanley, sophomore early childhood education; Candy Maxwell, senior business administration; Matthew Rollins, senior interdisciplinary studies; and Delecta Rollins, senior interdisciplinary studies and coordinator of student activities, drove to Greensboro, N.Cc to audition for American Idol on Monday, Oct. 3.
Maxwell and Rollins went for moral support for the other members of their group during the audition.
"I went because Delecta is my best friend and I know that she really has potential," said Maxwell.
Groups of four people were broken up between the 13 booths set up in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Stanley and Rollins were placed in the same group, but Sene was moved to another group.
Rollins was the first to audition. After she sang her first song "I Want to Dance With Somebody," the judge asked her to sing another song.
"I was so nervous because everyone else that was being asked to sing two songs was being sent to the next round," said Rollins.
Rollins sang her second song, "When You Say Nothing At All."
"Then the judge told me that I had five seconds to go over to the side and prepare and then come back and sing something totally different than my first two songs," said Rollins. "I ended upsinging Mariah Carey's 'Hero,' which is now what my friends are coming up and singing to me all the time."
The judge then told Rollins that he pictured her as a country girl, and he wanted her to sing a country song. She couldn't think of a country song at first and ended up singing "Lesson in Leaving" because a contestant off to the side told her the song. Upon a request for yet another song, Rollins chose "How Do I Live Without You."
Rollins ended up singing five songs before the judge dismissed her.
"He took me to the side and told met that I had waited too late to audition and wanted me to go to the Las Vegas audition," said Rollins.