That American singing competition the semifinals started with a good night for Evergreen State.
Washingtons Allen Stone won the jury vote and an automatic seat in the grand finale on May 9th. The singer, who performed “A Bit of Both”, is a Grammy nominee for appearing in 2012 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis album The heist.
Allen will be joined in the finale by four other artists from the April 25 episode, based solely on fans’ polls.
Highlights from the evening included the Oklahoma K-pop artist Alexa who performed an energetic version of her song “Wonderland”, ex The voice winner Jordan Smith who represented Kentucky with his song “Sparrow” and Wyoming’s Ryan Charles who performed his country-rap earworm “New Boot Goofin ‘.”
In addition, three artists from last week earned places in the second semifinal round on May 2nd. American Samoa’s TenelleNorth Carolina John Morgan and California Sweet taboo advanced after the combined fan and jury vote. They joined Michigan’s Ada Leannwho won the automatic jury seat last week.