Danyl Johnson made his first appearance on the live finals of the X Factor last night, the last contestant to perform.
He chose the show tune "And I'm Telling You" from the musical "Dreamgirls", which is generally considered to be a big Diva song, not usually performed by male singers.
Danyl has been a bit up and down sing that monster first audition that had him appearing on international talk shows and touted as a second Susan Boyle. Since then, the pressure has always been on him to come up with something as good.
This song gave him the opportunity to flex his vocal chords and he gave a pretty good account of himself, but I don't think it came close to his first audition in terms of overall performance (although that last note was pretty huge!)
Mixed messages from the X Factor judges though. Louis told him he was over-confident, that he needed to be more likeable and that he hadn't won the competition yet. Danii made a bit of a faux-pas that she later had to apologise for with references to Danyl's sexuality, Cheryl agreed with Louis that he was in danger of getting too cocky and Simon of course thought he was wonderful (Simon Cowell is Danyl's mentor in the competition after all).
Still, with the talent he's shown to date, Danyl Johnson has to be one of the favorites to win the X Factor this year, in anyone's book.
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