{"id":15962,"date":"2015-02-04T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:23:44","slug":"baylor-senior-again-reaches-hollywood-on-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/02\/baylor-senior-again-reaches-hollywood-on-american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor senior again reaches Hollywood on &#8216;American Idol&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15965\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wright2-jan15.jpg\" alt=\"Savion Wright on American Idol\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wright2-jan15.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wright2-jan15-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wright2-jan15-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baylor Bears are not strangers to\u00a0televised singing competitions, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2008\/08\/alumna-a-finalist-for-next-great-american-country-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">singer-songwriter Megan Conner<\/a>, BFA &#8217;02 (<em>The Next Great American Country Star<\/em> finalist, 2008), to <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2013\/06\/the-voice-final-6-includes-baylor-sophomore-holly-tucker\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Voice<\/em> finalist Holly Tucker<\/a>\u00a0(2013), to three <em>American Idol<\/em> competitors (<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/01\/former-chapel-worship-leader-passes-first-round-of-american-idol-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Megan McCallon<\/a>, BA &#8217;06, in 2010; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2014\/01\/second-bear-advances-on-american-idol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Watt<\/a>, BM &#8217;08, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2014\/01\/baylor-junior-reaches-hollywood-on-american-idol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Savion Wright<\/a> in 2014).<\/p>\n<p>But for the first time, one of those performers is back for another try. After reaching\u00a0Hollywood last year,\u00a0Wright &#8212; now a Baylor senior &#8212; aims to make it even further this year. So far, so good; Wright aced his audition in Nashville, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zXjF7lvMCCM\" target=\"_blank\">singing Eric Clapton&#8217;s &#8220;Change the World&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(see it below),\u00a0and is through to Hollywood once more. (<em>American Idol&#8217;s<\/em> Hollywood Week begins tonight on FOX.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXjF7lvMCCM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If Wright&#8217;s voice sounds familiar, it\u00a0could be from <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2014\/01\/baylor-junior-reaches-hollywood-on-american-idol\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year&#8217;s <em>American Idol<\/em><\/a> &#8212; or from his past performances at Common Grounds, in Baylor Chapel, and in recent Baylor Homecoming parades.\u00a0You can hear more\u00a0of his work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Savionjw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">his YouTube page<\/a>, and follow his progress via Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SavionJWright\" target=\"_blank\">@SavionJWright<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SavionJWright\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic\u00a0\u2019em, Savion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor Bears are not strangers to\u00a0televised singing competitions, from singer-songwriter Megan Conner, BFA &#8217;02 (The Next Great American Country Star finalist, 2008), to The Voice finalist Holly Tucker\u00a0(2013), to three American Idol competitors (Megan McCallon, BA &#8217;06, in 2010; and Bryan Watt, BM &#8217;08, and\u00a0Savion Wright in 2014). But for the first time, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-student-life","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}