{"id":7122,"date":"2025-10-16T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7122\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:00:09","slug":"lilo-stitch-american-idol-winner-plays-st-pete-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7122\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lilo &#038; Stitch&#8217; &#8216;American Idol&#8217; winner plays St. Pete on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"780\" data-attachment-id=\"345893\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/iam-tongi-st-petersburg-concert-jannus-live\/attachment\/wtongifacebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wtongiFacebook.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iam Tongi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Iam Tongi&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wtongiFacebook.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wtongiFacebook.jpg?fit=780%2C780&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wtongiFacebook.jpg\" alt=\"A young, dark-haired individual wearing a denim jacket and bracelets. They are smiling slightly, leaning forward, and pointing a finger directly at the viewer. The background is a solid, warm terracotta color.\" class=\"wp-image-345893\"  \/>Iam Tongi Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=788245530834578&amp;set=a.103529532639518&amp;type=3&amp;from_lookaside=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wtongi \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamtongiofficial.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William \u201cIam\u201d Guy Tongi <\/a>got in front of new fans over the summer when his new version of \u201cHawaiian Roller Coaster Ride\u201d landed on the soundtrack for Disney\u2019s live action \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old winner of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d season 21 kicked off a fall tour this week with three Florida dates including this one. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/iam-tongi-20841753\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Iam Tongi play Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Monday, Oct. 20 are still available for $36.01.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760644809_401_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/oct-16-22-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 16 \u2013 22, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iam Tongi Credit: wtongi \/ Facebook William \u201cIam\u201d Guy Tongi got in front of new fans over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7588,5725,7565,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-iam-tongi","tag-jannus-live","tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}