Simply Sam, the American Idol 2020 winner, returned for Season 22 to carry out Whitney Houston’s “One Second in Time.”
The singer went viral final 12 months after revealing that regardless of successful Season 18 of the ABC competitors, she needed to return to performing within the NYC subways.
Simply Sam gained the singing present amid the Covid lockdowns and carried out from dwelling. Her return to the present allowed her to sing on the Idol stage and in entrance of the judges as soon as once more.
“That is manner higher than an iPhone from dwelling,” Simply Sam mentioned following her efficiency.
Host Ryan Seacrest tossed it to Katy Perry to say one thing to Simply Sam, to which the pop star mentioned, “I ain’t bought notes.”
“However I’ll say is, you a hundred percent deserve that confetti,” Perry added. “It was lengthy overdue and it appears so nice on you. I’m simply so happy with who you’ve turn out to be.”
Luke Bryan mentioned, “I’m so glad you had your second. It’s so good to take a seat right here and listen to your voice once more on this room. You undergo every thing it took, from dwelling to get you to win American Idol, so that you can have your second in time, it was actually, actually particular.”
Lionel Richie mentioned he was “sitting right here like a proud papa bear.”
“I’m so happy with you,” he continued. “I do know the challenges that you simply’ve been by and you’ve got charmed us all. The truth that you will have now come again all grown up and stable as a rock, I can solely say, God has his arms firmly on you.”