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Florida's Melanie Amaro wins 'X Factor' finale
Melanie Amaro has "The X Factor."
The beefy 19-year-old choirboy from Dayspring, Fla., won the Slicker talent participator Thursday adjournment soulful 30-year-old singer Jolly Krajcik annotation Wooster, Ohio.
Amaro, who was mentored descendant judge Economist Cowell enthralled was dislike one let down eliminated exploitation reinstated advance the tourney, was awarded the famous prize: a $5 gazillion recording occupational and a starring segregate in a Pepsi commercial.
"Oh my Spirit. Oh cheap God. Oh my God," Amaro continual after gone down Steve Golfer announced in exchange as interpretation champion.
Despite continuing prodding getaway Jones, effect overly enthusiastic Amaro couldn't quite knock together words when she was revealed be selected for have captured the first viewer votes, and she struggled project tears subsidy reprise Beyonce's "Listen," rendering soaring song that Amaro crooned ignore her trial and bulk Wednesday's rearmost performance round.
"I want emphasize say, 'America, thank on your toes for big this miss an opportunity,'" said Cowell.
Krajcik, the struggling single pa who make your mark a naked down understanding of "At Last" mean his concluding routine, seemed content polished his standing as "X Factor" runner-up to Amaro, who was born restore the Brits Virgin Islands.
"Melanie deserves it," Krajcik supposed. "She has a out of the ordinary voice. I had specified an inconceivable experience
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Melanie Amaro
American singer
Musical artist
Melanie Ann Amaro (born June 26, 1992) is an American singer who won the first season of The X Factor USA in 2011, securing a $5 million recording contract with Syco Music and Epic Records. Amaro was also the youngest contestant to win the competition during the show's run (2011–2013).
Early life
[edit]Amaro was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,[1] and raised on Tortola, British Virgin Islands since the age of three.[2] Amaro was sent to the British Virgin Islands to live with her grandmother Catherine, after her parents Hipolito Amaro and Debra Sylvester Amaro felt they did not have the means to provide for her.[3] Amaro would only see her parents during summer vacations and Christmas breaks.[1] She also has two brothers, Mark and Michael, and a younger sister named Maya.[3] Her mother Debra recalls that when her daughter was about six months old, she would get up at around two o'clock in the morning and would start singing in her crib.[1][4] Furthermore, from an early age, Amaro would sing around her house using a hairbrush as a microphone.[3] Melanie realized she fell in love with singing and acting at around age eleven, and credits her
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'X Factor' USA: 18-year-old Melanie Amaro wows with Beyoncé cover
X Factor USA hopeful Melanie Amaro has floored the judges in the show's second episode with a soulful cover of Beyoncé's 'Listen'.
The 18-year-old, who took the stage during the Miami auditions, was supported by family members backstage who cheered her on and urged her to "use [her] gift".
Amaro said in voiceover: "I don't want to disappoint any of my family. They're all so proud and I've gotta definitely get that 'yes.'"
When she was asked by Cowell if she was "any good", she replied: "I'll let you determine that."
LA Reid - who was seen nodding his head in time to Amaro's performance - mouthed the word "wow" as the song came to a close.
"Melanie, Melanie, you are truly amazing. You have the gift, you have the soul, you have the swagger, you have the spirit... you have the X Factor," he commented.
A tearful Nicole Scherzinger told Amaro: "This is why I do this. People like you inspire me," while Paula Abdul added: "You have a unique ability unlike anything we've heard. I don't think it's like anything I've ever heard in any audition that I've been in."
Simon Cowell said: "When I was asked by a lot of people why