American Idol Winner Abi Carter

well America has spoken just 48 hours ago she took home the coveted title of American Idol please welcome Abby Carter thank you conratulations oh my go thank you thank you Abby you look shocked take us to oh my God okay well first of all I can't watch that without crying just a little bit I get it I get it no I was definitely shocked I mean how could you not be yeah but you heard yourself I mean you I you had to know that it no really it seem in were you preparing yourself to not hear your name absolutely it was like will Mosley will Mosley will Mosley like it was just ringing in my head and and um and I just expected that to kind of come out of Ryan's mouth I mean he's amazing aming he's a country singer I mean they famously love the country singers on this show and I just and I was so happy for him too I was like I was ready for it I was going to be like good job dude like love you yeah you you look genuinely surprised have you had a Time have you had time to celebrate at all I'm sure it's been a whirlwind for the past 48 Hours have you slept yeah not enough right not enough right uh no honestly this is the celebration being here thank you very interesting you're from Indio California um and I had never heard of this before this segment but you actually were humming in uturo fun fact I did not know that babies could do that yeah I didn't either so when my mom was pregnant with me she went in for an ultrasound and you know the doctor was listening he was listening for a heartbeat and he kind of like takes off his headphones he kind of throws them down and he's like Andrea you need to listen to this I I don't even know what I'm hearing it sounds like whale sounds she's singing in your stomach and my mom was shocked she was like you're lying but she listened to it she heard it I looked it up recently apparently it's a thing and sometimes babies will sing in their mom's stomachs and that recording is available on itun did your mom listen to a lot of music my mom is a singer herself so I mean I was always listening to her saying probably it from the wom what is would you say is the best advice that you've been given since you started this journey oh my goodness to stay true to myself to be myself throughout the whole process I remember after my audition both Luke Bryan and liel Richie came out to me no cameras no nothing they just came out to me and they were like hey you're going to kind of be thrown into this and you're going to see so many talented people and they're going to be so different from you and and you're going to think to yourself that you need to change and be like them and change to kind of fit into their mold maybe genre maybe sounds maybe rasp whatever it is and he said don't do that you need to you have something special you need to continue to be yourself and and hone in on that that is a great advice and they clearly saw something that they knew was really special when those two say it you know it means something I mean to be to do to do this this competition you're under a lot of pressure oh each and every week what did you learn about yourself through the process oh my gosh I learned that I am so much bigger than I ever thought I mean I can I realize that I'm not you don't have to stay in the box that you think you're put in that you kind of put yourself in I mean and and honestly the judges they pushed me to to get out of that box to stay myself but to try different things I always thought that I would be the girl who just sat behind the piano cuz she had no stage presence and could not interact with with people in a crowd and I learned that I just love performing I love running around a room and having a good time so it sounds like they gave you really really good advice all through the process abely

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Length: 4min 15sec (255 seconds)

Published: Tue May 21 2024