Get the tissues out for a Douglas Mills’ performance on “Idol.”
His song Sunday night was “especially chosen for the Black community, because they have gone through so much pain over the past few centuries,” he explained. “It’s time to bring awareness to it.”Mills delivered a powerful performance of “Strange Fruit,” a harrowing song recorded in the late ‘30s by Billie Holiday, and which has been described as “the beginning of the civil rights movement”.
The three judges were blown away. “Young man, that was superb,” enthused Lionel Richie. “You’re a superstar,” Katy Perry explained, when the youngster admitted he didn’t think he’d pass theLuke Bryan said the trio were “hypnotized” by the talent before them. “I’m speechless about it.”
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