{"id":269963,"date":"2026-04-28T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:55:08","slug":"who-went-home-on-american-idol-humbles-daniel-stallworth-ends-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269963\/","title":{"rendered":"Who went home on American Idol? Humble&#8217;s Daniel Stallworth ends run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humble ISD music teacher Daniel Stallworth is coming home after finishing in the top seven on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/movies_tv\/article\/Houston-s-Andrea-Valles-could-be-the-next-16070382.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">American Idol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stallworth was eliminated from the singing competition when the judges narrowed the competition down to five.<\/p>\n<p>Stallworth went bold with in his last round\u00a0with his renditions of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cFearless\u201d and \u201cBest Part\u201d by H.E.R. and Daniel Caesar but didn\u2019t make the final five.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi-born music teacher and musician had wowed the judges with his audition, accompanying himself on piano for an acoustic version of Journey\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And American Idol judge Lionel Ritchie praised the music teacher when he brought out his take on the singer-songwriter&#8217;s 1983 hit, &#8220;All Night Long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stallworth, who is listed as a music\u00a0teacher in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humbleisd.net\/o\/rpe\/staff?search=Stallworth\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">River Pines Elementary School<\/a>&#8216;s staff directory, appeared grateful for his American Idol opportunity with a Facebook post message to his followers: \u201cHe\u2019s not done with me yet!!!!!! Thank you @americanidol.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humble ISD music teacher Daniel Stallworth is coming home after finishing in the top seven on American Idol.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-269963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269963","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=269963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}