American Idol_ Loretta Lynn's Granddaughter Stuns Judges

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00:00 Growing up I sang on the road with my grandma's a country singer so I kind of grew up like your grandma

00:04 Loretta Lynn, uh

00:06 well, yeah, grandma is

00:08 What? Oh, wow. Yeah

00:10 American Idol hopeful Emi Russell shocks the judges revealing her grandma is country music legend Loretta Lynn

00:17 You have to keep watching. This is a dream

00:19 Good. Yeah, tell us who you are. My name is Emi Russell. And where are you from? I'm from Nashville, Tennessee

00:27 So tell us about yourself during the 24 year olds pre-taped video

00:31 She took fans inside her late grandma's ranch where her mom Patsy Russell grew up and see her little slippers

00:37 People from all over the world come here and everything that people walk into is literally like her bedroom her bathroom her kitchen

00:44 her riding room

00:47 When I was a little girl growing up I never dreamed about ever been a country singer

00:57 I guess I was just too big of a dream for a little girl that

01:00 You know that didn't have much didn't have hardly anything

01:05 Loretta whose career in country music spanned more than 60 years died in 2022

01:10 She's one of the biggest country music singers of all time

01:14 But to me, she's just my grandma and growing up on the bus and all that was very normal to me

01:19 Are you nervous you feel prepared? I'm as prepared as I think I can't be I'm scared

01:25 I'm gonna do it. I know that your meemaw would be

01:28 So proud of you and while Emi has a big legacy behind her she wants to pave her own path. I want to own

01:35 My voice. Yeah, and I want to own it. I understand

01:39 But that's why I want to challenge myself and come out here and like really step in and be like, okay

01:44 Come on, Emi. Emi goes on to show the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

01:48 Making her idol debut with an original song about eating disorders

01:52 So I took a trip around the world to hold the hands of orphan girls

01:58 Saw the war felt the pain in miracles in his name, but I just wanna be I

02:06 Just wanna be

02:09 Skinny

02:11 Emi leaving the judges impressed and scoring herself a ticket to Hollywood Emi

02:16 you're an

02:19 A+ songwriter. Thank you. So is your grandma?

02:22 Thank you my dear you have promise and I like your promise

02:27 Each one of us is trying to battle something that we're trying to overcome in your case. You have big shoes

02:33 We just got to lift you up and get you more confident and you just need to own it. They're really entering into a

02:40 University as Lionel X put it a crash course a fast-paced

02:47 crash course of the music industry

02:50 And so we we just like teach them everything we know in all of our years and even if they don't win American Idol

02:57 They come back late. I mean they go home just like full of so much hope

03:03 I was thinking about my grandma, but I was also like give me she's with you. No, it's your turn

03:08 I think I'm more like her now than I was whenever I was trying to be like her excited. I'm really excited

03:13 You

03:16 You

03:18 (music fades)

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