Singer – Amanda Mena: “I want to come to the country and make music so that they know me”

Young singer Amanda Mena has made American Idol history by having the shortest audition ever for the musical talent-seeking contest.

Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie and Luke Bryan were the jurors that valued the performance of Mena, who performed her emotional version of the song “Golden Slumbers” by The Beatles, sending it immediately to American Idol 2021 Hollywood Week, which began yesterday in Los Angeles .

“I was very surprised and like in shock. They told me they had never done something like this, so the recognition is double, “said Amanda Mena, who is now 18 years old, but who has been in the public eye since she was a child, when at age 11, she won the talent show La Voz Kids.

From there it would happen, four more years it takes America’s Got Talent, where he obtained the Golden Buzzer, passing the semifinal of that contest to the semifinal.

As he took these steps, many doors were opened to him, and this new adventure that just started yesterday is one of them. It is what the young artist born in Boston, Massachusetts, of Dominican parents considers.

In this activity, called by those who participate as “Hell’s week”, you will have to face hundreds of young singers, in a contest in which you will have to show the concept of the artist you want to be, the genre you like and the how it will be sold to the public. “I am prepared, mentally, physically and vocally,” he says, with the same firmness with which he faces the stage.

Especially when he has to interpret a song of soul or rhythm and blues, genres in which he puts his soul, an example of this is his performance when he obtained the aforementioned Golden Buzzer, with the song “You make me feel like a natural woman” (co-written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin) and recorded by Aretha Franklin. “Being able to be on stage and connect with people, that fills me completely, it’s something beautiful,” he says.

But, because she prefers the aforementioned musical styles, she does not limit the breadth of her range of possibilities, since Mena does not want to be considered a singer of only one gender. “I like Latin music, the urban, I want to be a versatile artist, I don’t want to stay singing ballads, or salsa; it is very important to be able to be in all genres ”, he assures, who has had the opportunity to navigate in different rhythms.

That is why it is not surprising that he is promoting the song “El Destino”, a single of urban music in which he is duet with the dembowsero El Fecho.

This is a way that, although most of her life has been in the United States, she feels Dominican, so she wants to make herself known here, even if her eyes look abroad as well. “I want to come to the country and make music so that they know me,” he says, since he feels that it is an obligation to make a career in a land that he considers his.

An admirer of strong women in music, such as Whitney Houston, Beyonce or Lady Gaga, she understands well that show business is full of lies and deceptions, and that the female sex has it even more complicated. But luckily, he is accompanied by a team led by his parents, and to whom he is grateful for the moment of taking off from a career that can go far.

This has not been the case for several of her competition partners, many of whom have had to abandon their dreams of being a music star, something that Amanda Mena is not fighting for.

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