{"id":12141,"date":"2011-12-30T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12141"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T15:50:03","slug":"contestant-from-virgin-islands-wins-%e2%80%98the-x-factor%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12141","title":{"rendered":"Contestant From Virgin Islands Wins  \u2018The X Factor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 <strong>Melanie Amaro<\/strong> has \u201c<em>The X Factor<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The powerful 19-year-old vocalist from Sunrise, Fla., won the Fox talent competition last Thursday over soulful 30-year-old singer <strong>Josh Krajcik<\/strong> of Wooster, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amaro<\/strong>, who was mentored by judge <strong>Simon Cowell<\/strong> and was at one point eliminated then reinstated to the contest, was awarded the grand prize: a $5 million recording contract and a starring role in a Pepsi commercial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God,\u201d <strong>Amaro<\/strong> repeated after host <strong>Steve Jones<\/strong> announced her as the champion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite continued prodding from <strong>Jones<\/strong>, an overly emotional <strong>Amaro<\/strong> couldn\u2019t quite formulate words when she was revealed to have captured the most viewer votes, and she struggled through tears to reprise <strong>Beyonce\u2019s<\/strong> \u201c<em>Listen<\/em>,\u201d the soaring ballad that <strong>Amaro<\/strong> crooned at her audition and on Wednesday\u2019s final performance round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Melanie Amaro has \u201cThe X Factor.\u201d The powerful 19-year-old vocalist from Sunrise, Fla., won the Fox talent competition last Thursday over soulful 30-year-old singer Josh Krajcik of Wooster, Ohio. Amaro, who was mentored by judge Simon Cowell and was at one point eliminated then reinstated to the contest, was awarded the grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}