{"id":518,"date":"2026-06-07T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/?p=518"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:18:18","slug":"james-kenney-looked-so-nervous-then-he-started-singing-and-shocked-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"James Kenney Looked So Nervous\u2026 Then He Started Singing and Shocked Everyone."},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-24084\" class=\"article-post post-24084 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail  category-interesting\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">When James Kenney walked onto The X Factor USA stage in 2013, he didn\u2019t look like someone about to blow everyone away. Quiet, awkward, and visibly nervous, he seemed overwhelmed just standing in front of the judges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--mob b-r--middle_content\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But the moment he started singing, everything changed. His powerful voice instantly stunned the audience and left the judges speechless. What made the audition unforgettable wasn\u2019t just his talent \u2014 it was the contrast between his shy personality and the confidence that appeared the second the music began.<\/p>\n<p>Within moments, the entire room went from uncertainty to complete disbelief.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"entered litespeed-loaded\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFtDeqTDUB0?si=jRKGtjuovPsC2ehN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFtDeqTDUB0?si=jRKGtjuovPsC2ehN\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--mob b-r--after_content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"rating-box\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When James Kenney walked onto The X Factor USA stage in 2013, he didn\u2019t look like someone about to blow everyone away. Quiet, awkward, and visibly nervous, he seemed overwhelmed &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnnews24h.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}