Mississippi won the daily double on American Idol Sunday night. Calvin Upshaw of Marks and Canton's Hannah Everhart earned Gold Tickets to the next round on the popular show. The 26 year-old Upshaw may have once been incarcerated but he didn't let that mistake hold him back as he wowed Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan.
The hard work paid off. Calvin got the gold ticket!
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Good luck to him. If he can pull himself out of Marks, MS and make something of himself it will be a great day.
Good for these two. I hope the beat for them.
But Singing shouldn’t be a career goal. Young people need to learn application development and take some of those $50k a year STEM jobs that are going to imported H1B visa holders.
Dreaming of becoming a Country singer, Hip Hop/R&B star, or NASCAR driver is absolutely unrealistic. Everyone is capable of learning to code with some dedication.
I've heard both of them, and if that is the best MS has to offer, well. Anyway, these shows are set-ups; not real. Honey Boo Boo and Mama June. Now that's real entertainment.
Remember then criminals and felons were considered bad people? I do.
Now, they are celebrated.
@1:31
Perhaps you have missed the 10s of thousands of wrongful convictions that have been thrown out over the last few decades. Look into The Innocence Project. Corrupt and incompetent prosecutors were getting pleas and convictions against innocent African American males for decades because of systemic racism. Our criminal justice system is absolutely broken when the white son of an affluent attorney gets a few months for aggravated assault (and an expungement) but a black male gets a few years for the same crime.
1:34 ~ The one thing every imprisoned person has is common is that they are all innocent. Gotcha.
Your statement is as silly as the left’s “school to prison pipeline” where prions are just popping up around innocent “good boys”
Like Baretta said, “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime”
Now please go stick your head back in the sand.
12:35, I get your point. Just glad my family's matriarch didn't read it, God rest her soul. We have numerous career musicians in our family. But, we're weird like that.
1:34- please enlighten us with a valid definition of
"systemic racism"....and please include valid examples.
Bad pitchy
Click on 'view profile' and visit his photos, his destruction of the English language and his 'pie in the sky' dreams of becoming the next Pavarotti. I see nothing about his incarceration and don't care. He's just another boy from across the tracks who thinks he's a rock star and gonna buy his mamma a house uptown.
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