{"id":4210,"date":"2014-09-07T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2014-09-07T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T17:12:16","slug":"michael-rice-singing-i-look-to-you-at-the-x-factor-2014-auditions-surprised-the-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/4210\/michael-rice-singing-i-look-to-you-at-the-x-factor-2014-auditions-surprised-the-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Rice singing I Look To You at The X Factor 2014 Auditions surprised the judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rice surprised the judges at his X Factor audition earlier this year when he performed a Whitney Houston classic.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old shop worker said: \u201cI was really worried about today because the judges\u2019 opinions could change your life forever. I just want to sing, this is all I want to do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When he tells the judges that he is going to be performing Whitney Houston\u2019s \u2018 I Look to You\u2019, the judges all sort of raise the eyebrows as if to say that the song might be too big for him to pull off, but when he started singing, the judges got a big surprise; michhael made the song his own and had a really good voice.<\/p>\n<p>After his performance Cheryl tells him: \u201cWaw! I mean you\u2019ve got some power in there, haven\u2019t you? You\u2019re like a little diva. I think you\u2019re a really fantastic singer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Michael-Rice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Michael-Rice.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Michael Rice\" width=\"570\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Michael-Rice.png 570w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Michael-Rice-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><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\/\/-->\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>Michael Rice surprised the judges at his X Factor audition earlier this year when he performed a Whitney Houston classic. The 16-year-old shop worker said: \u201cI was really worried about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-the-x-factor-2014","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Michael-Rice.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}