{"id":454083,"date":"2026-02-07T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:45:07","slug":"franklin-resident-auditions-for-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454083\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin resident auditions for American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SOUTH CENTRAL, Ky. (WBKO) &#8211; Christian Brown is a resident in Franklin, Kentucky, who started singing when he was only 15-years-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown describes this opportunity and the excitement he\u2019s had since applying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt is my favorite show, it really is. I mean, American Idol. That\u2019s why I auditioned. You know, that\u2019s why I even applied because I saw that and I was like, American Idol, I could be an American Idol, said Brown. \u201cI really, you know, I believed in myself. And the further I went into this after applying, I really built myself up and I really built up the confidence, and that\u2019s what helped me make it to the audition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown says, his dad, Marty Brown, who\u2019s also a musician, is who inspired him to get into singing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy dad is my hero, he really is, and he has raised me to be a very strong independent singer and a father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He also says, his son is another reason for his motivation to sing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cHe is my rock, he is the reason why. He\u2019s my inspiration to want to keep going with American Idol,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Catch his audition on American Idol, February 9th, at 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBKO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH CENTRAL, Ky. (WBKO) &#8211; Christian Brown is a resident in Franklin, Kentucky, who started singing when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[12287,212527,88,34088,3729,212526,92],"class_list":["post-454083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-american-idol","tag-christian-brown","tag-entertainment","tag-ky","tag-local","tag-resident-from-franklin","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}