{"id":2375,"date":"2013-09-06T17:49:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2013-09-06T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:49:37","slug":"abi-alton-from-guisborough-brought-country-music-to-the-x-factor-2013-auditions-singing-travelling-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2375\/abi-alton-from-guisborough-brought-country-music-to-the-x-factor-2013-auditions-singing-travelling-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Abi Alton from Guisborough brought Country Music to The X Factor 2013 auditions singing Travelling Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abi Alton from Guisborough, near Middlesborough, a Morrisons employee, brought a bit of country to The X Factor auditions and impressed with her performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/abialton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/abialton.png\" alt=\"abi alton the x factor\" title=\"abi alton the x factor\" width=\"590\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/abialton.png 590w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/abialton-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not often we get to hear country music on The X Factor, and on previous occasions where we have seen contestants performing country on the show, they rarely leave a lasting impression on the judges.<\/p>\n<p>However, 18-year-old Abi hopes to change all that. She performed her version of Travelling Soldier by Dixie Chicks for the judges at her first audition and it seems to have struck a chord with the panel, of Louis Walsh, Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne and Gary Barlow.<\/p>\n<p>Abi, who currently works in a part time job on the checkouts at Morrisons, says her dad is her best friend and her biggest supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Barlow tells the teen after her audition: \u201cYou are totally what this show needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BG-ve8mR7JI?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi Alton from Guisborough, near Middlesborough, a Morrisons employee, brought a bit of country to The X Factor auditions and impressed with her performance. It is not often we get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/abialton.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}