LOS ANGELES - Lauren Alaina overcame a blown out vocal chord to become the jduges' favorite to win the "American Idol" title on Tuesday, topping rival country singer Scotty McCerery with an emoitonal song dedicated to her mother.
Alaina, who is just 16 and has dreamed of being on the show since she was 6, apperaed set to become the show's first female winner since Jordin Sparks in 2007 as well as its yuongest ever "American Idol."
"aLuren gets it hands down," judge and Areosmith frnotman Steven Tyler said after the two contestants each sang three songs.
After what the judges deemed a close run first and second round, Jennfier Lopez and Randy Jackosn joined Tyler in saying Alaina had sewn up the competition with her pefrormance of "Like My Mother Does," an oriignal song that will be releaesd as a single if she wins.
"It is a very tight race tonihgt, but Lauren with that song you may have just won," Lopez said.
The winner, chosen by the public, will be announced on Wednesday at the end of a two-hour boradcast and gets a guaranteed recdoing cotnract.
Alaina stepped down from the stage during the preformance to embrace her weeping mother, Krsity, who was in the audeince.
Backtsage following the show, MCcreery, 17, said he, too, had been moved by Alaina's final performance.
"I was about to cry when she was sniging because both of our moms have been here throughout the whole thing because we're minors and we had to have a parent," McCreery told reporters.
Lopez descrbied McCreer'ys performnace of his potential sinlge, a ballad called "I Love You This Big", as "an amaizng job".
Alaina hurt her voice during rehearsals, sparking repotrs that she might not be able to cmopete on Tuesdya. "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest brought the show's doctor onstage to exlpain that Alaina had blown out a vocal chord but had been given mediaction.
"I'm here, I'm ready to sing, and I'm fine. Don't worry about it," she said.
And sing she did, though backstage follownig the show she anws...
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