{"id":155435,"date":"2026-02-07T22:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155435\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:38:02","slug":"el-paso-singer-julian-kalel-to-audition-on-american-idol-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155435\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso singer Julian Kalel to audition on &#8216;American Idol&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Pasoan will audition for &#8220;American Idol&#8221; on Monday. <\/p>\n<p> Julian Kalel will have his audition aired on Monday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Kalel expressed his excitement on Instagram, saying, &#8220;Still feels unreal \u2014 I can\u2019t wait to share this moment with you all.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Kalel started writing songs at the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Kalel has been an advocate for mental health. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I realized those same chords  could become ropes for others to grab onto. Anxiety doesn&#8217;t care how old you are. Depression lies. Sometimes, the only way out is through a melody,&#8221; Kalel states in his website. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My music is where brokenness meets hope &#8211; where Americana grit connects with modern country soul. These songs are my truth. The struggles, the faith, the hard-won hope. If you&#8217;ve ever needed music that understands what you&#8217;re going through, you&#8217;ve found it here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:<a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/entertainment\/godsmack-to-headline-free-outdoor-concert-at-speaking-rock-casino?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/entertainment\/godsmack-to-headline-free-outdoor-concert-at-speaking-rock-casino?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Godsmack to headline free outdoor concert at Speaking Rock Casino<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Pasoan will audition for &#8220;American Idol&#8221; on Monday. Julian Kalel will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-155435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}