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Jan 20 2009
Kai Kalama Closes The Show In Style - San Francisco Auditions - American Idol 8
Kai Kalama entered the San Francisco auditions with a heavy heart, but he closed out the San Francisco auditions in style! He sang “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” the Platters’ hit single and he basically tore the roof off the place.
That wouldn’t have been an easy thing to do, since Randy, Paula, Simon and Kara only sent 12 total individuals to Hollywood from San Francisco. There were far more terrible singers than there ever were good and so Kalama had his work cut out for him.
But his timbre and tone were very nice and even though he has to take care of his ailing mother, who is suffering from a seizure disorder according to American Idol, he certainly didn’t let that affect him this evening!
In fact, if he can just get some personality to go with that tremendous instrument, we may have ourselves a Top 50 contestant. But I think it’s safe to say everyone knows it can’t be easy to show your personality when you are going through something like Kalama is right now.
In the end he got four yeses from the judges and so if they think he’s that good (and they’re quite picky, you know) then there has to be something special about him.
And he’s so adorable: http://www.thenossip.com/2009/01/20/kais-san-francisco-treat/