{"id":6347,"date":"2011-11-24T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2011-11-24T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T15:03:43","slug":"the-x-factor-usa-week-5-top-9-leroy-bell-sings-%e2%80%98angel%e2%80%99-on-thanks-giving-theme-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/6347\/the-x-factor-usa-week-5-top-9-leroy-bell-sings-%e2%80%98angel%e2%80%99-on-thanks-giving-theme-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor USA Week 5 Top 9: Leroy Bell sings \u2018Angel\u2019 on Thanks Giving theme night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leroy Bell angel top 9\" src=\"\/images\/usa\/thexfactor\/2011\/live\/leroybell_m.JPG\" title=\"Leroy Bell angel top 9\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"716\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leroy Bell sings Sarah McLachlan&#8217;s &#8216;Angel&#8217;  for  Thanks Giving theme night. He&#8217;s thankful for his mother for fostering his love of music, admitting that he is still grieving as his mother has passed away. <\/p>\n<p>For us Leroy gave an emotional performance on the night which was a fitting tribute to his mum.  He really felt the song and you could tell he was thinking about her. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Judges Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LA thinks it was &#8220;really good&#8221; and appreciated the message but didn&#8217;t think it was his best performance despite being heartfelt.<br \/>\nPaula disagrees with LA, saying that there was &#8220;so much passion and connection&#8221; tonight. She says that LeRoy gave the most beautiful performance in the competition. <\/p>\n<p>Simon also disagrees with LA, insisting that tonight is the first night that he got to know LeRoy more and that it was a great tribute to his late mother. &#8220;You really made your mark this week. Congratulations!&#8221; he adds.<br \/>\nNicole says that tonight was &#8220;his moment&#8221; and applauds him for letting to and giving it his all.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\t\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R21pOnLZBq4?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leroy Bell sings Sarah McLachlan&#8217;s &#8216;Angel&#8217; for Thanks Giving theme night. He&#8217;s thankful for his mother for fostering his love of music, admitting \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/6347\/the-x-factor-usa-week-5-top-9-leroy-bell-sings-%e2%80%98angel%e2%80%99-on-thanks-giving-theme-night\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xfactorusa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}