Years earlier than Benson Boone was backflipping on awards present phases and at large music festivals, he was a contestant on Season 19 of American Idol. The rising star was on the present in 2021, however mysteriously withdrew from the competitors about midway by.
As Boone, who opened for Taylor Swift on one of many London dates of her Eras tour in 2024, continues to make waves within the music business, we’re wanting again at his time on Idol. Scroll down to seek out out why he left the present and extra.
What occurred to Benson Boone on American Idol?
Boone was 18 years outdated when he auditioned in entrance of judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie. He revealed that he had solely been singing for a yr on the time. “I don’t know the place it got here from,” he admitted. “It’s change into a very huge ardour of mine actually shortly.”
He obtained standing ovations from Richie and Bryan for his audition rendition of “Punchline” by Aidan Martin. Perry advised him she might see him successful the present. Boone obtained the golden ticket to Hollywood Week, however was by no means on the present once more.
“It was a really exhausting alternative,” Boone stated in an announcement. “I didn’t actually know who I needed to be as an artist but, and I didn’t need to present the world somebody I’m not. Social media is the most important alternative to get individuals to know you personally. Hopefully, they won’t solely like my music, however they’ll perceive and like me as an individual, so I’m greater than only a track to them.”
Why did Benson Boone give up American Idol?
In 2022, Boone appeared on The Zach Sang Present and defined his choice.
“The rationale I give up American Idol is as a result of I needed to do music. I don’t need individuals to be like, ‘Oh, Benson Boone. American Idol blew him up. That’s the place he comes from,’” he shared “No. I need to be Benson Boone as a result of I write smash hits and so they love my music. That’s why I give up. I simply didn’t need that label on me.”
He added that he’s all the time been a “threat taker” his entire life. “I’ve been that means in sports activities, or in cliff leaping, or stuff like that,” Boone continued. “I all the time wish to really feel the joys of not figuring out totally how one thing’s going to go. Clearly, it is a very totally different class than leaping off a cliff into 10-foot water.”
Boone credited his mother and father with enjoying a “huge half” in his choice making. “I talked to my mother whereas I used to be on American Idol. After I advised them I needed to give up, they don’t know something about music, in order that they have been very confused about why I needed to give up. As soon as I defined it, like, ‘I don’t need to have this label posted on me for all times, that I’m the American Idol child. But when I actually need to do music, and I actually assume I can do it, then I’m going to strive my finest to get so far as I can,’ they only believed in me. I believe it was as a result of they believed in me that I actually thought I might do it.”
How far did Benson Boone make it on American Idol?
Boone made all of it the way in which to the High 24 earlier than voluntarily withdrawing. He was changed by previously-eliminated contestant Anilee Record.
Record wound up getting eradicated the next week and Chayce Beckham went on to win the season.