During the show, performer Daniel Jenkins unexpectedly invited him onstage to sing a few lines of “Viva Las Vegas.”
“It was my first time in Vegas and I had never performed before formally, only karaoke,” Alberti said. “Then he just handed me the mic and I sang a couple of lines, and that was it for me.”
He flew back to Las Vegas a month later after Jenkins invited him to compete at an Elvis tribute festival, despite having almost no experience on stage.
“I jumped right into the deep end,” he said. “There were Elvises from every country in the world.”
Since then, Alberti has traveled across the United States and Canada, competing and performing at Elvis festivals, appearing everywhere from Arizona and Georgia to Cape Cod, New York and Ontario.