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Speaker 1: I want to bring in Kyraate waits here. How are

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Speaker 1: you I'm good?

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Speaker 2: Ryan? Her?

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Speaker 1: Are you I'm good? So she tried out for American

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Speaker 1: Idol five times before making it through to see the judges.

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Speaker 1: Forget about the fact that you're a great singer. What

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Speaker 1: kept that drive? That's what's interesting to me, to keep

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Speaker 1: going five times after being told no in an audition.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've always loved the show. I grew up watching it,

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Speaker 2: as a lot of people did, and ever since I

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Speaker 2: was a little girl, of course, singing his run in

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Speaker 2: my family, and I just never saw myself doing anything

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Speaker 2: else but being a singer. And I guess that's what

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Speaker 2: pushed me to keep trying. You know, throughout life, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna get told no a lot, but you're never gonna

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Speaker 2: get told yes if you stop trying. So I just

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Speaker 2: I put all my heart and soul into that and

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Speaker 2: it paid off.

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Speaker 1: And here's the moment when you from Kentucky were on

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Speaker 1: the line and heard you were gonna after the fifth

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Speaker 1: time move on to see the judge. We're gonna ask

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Speaker 1: you to sing for Katy Perry, Luke Bryant and Lionel

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Speaker 1: Richie on American Goals Thank you all so much. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe this. I've been trying for so long. Thank

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Speaker 1: you all so much. How that feel to you?

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Speaker 2: I was in shock, like I was literally shaking because

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Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting to hear that. You know, after so

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Speaker 2: many times of being told no, you just kind of

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Speaker 2: get used to it and you're like, well, well, if

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Speaker 2: I get told no again, that'll be it and I'll

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Speaker 2: just try to get next year. But they finally said

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Speaker 2: what I'd been longing to hear. So that was just indescribable.

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Speaker 2: I was so excited.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three years old from Kentucky and here's your singing.

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Speaker 1: I just loved these stories of determination. You sleep.

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Speaker 2: Com comany, tell me so beautiful?

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Speaker 1: Kira waits there? And how about that a different kind

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Speaker 1: of diamond in the rough.

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Speaker 2: I love your cry that you have in your voice.

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Speaker 2: I love the volume. One thing it was clear to

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Speaker 2: me when you went to that note of the full scream,

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Speaker 2: no fear, fear.

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Speaker 1: And then what happened after that?

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Speaker 2: I got told I, I mean, you've never been in

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Speaker 2: Hollywood before.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing absolutely not. Well, it's a great story and

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Speaker 1: I love your determination growing up there in Kentucky, saying

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Speaker 1: up to the mountain. You're a stay at home mom,

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Speaker 1: two year old daughter, and an inspiring individual. Kyra Waits,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for auditioning for us. And if

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Speaker 1: you want to see go look, go watch your story.

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Speaker 1: It's really heartwarming. You can see it on Hulu on

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Speaker 1: American Idol. Big hugs to you and good luck. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, Ryan, Bye bye bye, Kyra Waits, isn't

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Speaker 1: that great? Auditioned five times before she got through, and

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Speaker 1: did you hear what she said? She was I wasn't

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Speaker 1: expecting it, and I was going to come back next year.

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Speaker 1: Like she already had in her mind that she was

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Speaker 1: going to come back for it. She already trained herself

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Speaker 1: on the nose. Felt very inspired.