Aspiring pop singer Kaya Stewart bought a musical help from her well-known father throughout her current audition for “American Idol.”
On Sunday evening’s episode of the singing competitors sequence, Stewart left judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie shocked when her dad, Dave Stewart, appeared beside her. Through the Nineteen Eighties, the elder Stewart was one half of the era-defining British pop duo the Eurythmics. Along with Annie Lennox, he’s liable for “Candy Goals (Are Manufactured from This)” and “Right here Comes the Rain Once more,” amongst different basic songs.
In a pretaped interview, Stewart appeared unfazed by her father’s inventive legacy, at the same time as she cited his affect on her personal fledging music profession.
“Music has been part of my life since earlier than I used to be even born,” the 23-year-old mentioned. “My dad was in a bunch referred to as the Eurythmics. Once I was born, my dad was on tour, and I used to be going to reveals once I was nonetheless in my mother’s tummy.”
Watch Kaya Stewart’s “American Idol” audition under.
She went on to notice: “The musician’s life-style has been one thing that’s simply been part of my life. There was by no means a query of what I needed to do with my life. That was all the time going to be what I used to be going to do.”
Dave Stewart’s look prompted Richie to recall a shared reminiscence of being inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame collectively final yr.
Maybe anticipating the “nepotism child” discourse which may come up, Perry requested why Kaya would pursue “American Idol” given all the “completely different alternatives and connections” she may entry because the little one of a Grammy winner.
The present, Kaya mentioned, offers her an opportunity to “sing my very own music,” thus opening “an entire new world for me.” She went on to carry out “This Tattoo,” a melancholy ballad co-written together with her father.
The decision from Bryan, Perry and Richie was unanimously constructive, and Stewart will proceed to the following spherical. Nonetheless, Perry warned her that the judges have been prone to “be a bit bit extra nitpicky with you” given her household background.
“You recognize the enterprise,” she mentioned, “and the enterprise is actual.”
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