Nineteen year-old Sarah Krueger from Eau Claire, WI impressed more than just the judges in Minneapolis. With her soulful rendition of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” she earned herself a trip to Hollywood. Simon Cowell said of Sarah “Very good Sarah, you’ve got a lot of control over your voice, you look great, very good” while Randy Jackson felt that Sarah was “very refreshing”. Krueger took a bit of a chance with the song choice as Katharine McPhee sang it several times during Season 5 and absolutely nailed it each time. Thankfully Sarah knew her range and did a fantastic job. Her high school choir director Paul Gilbertson wasn’t surprised by her performance, “I’ve told a lot of people, the only thing I’ve done for her is give her more places to sing,” he said. “She has a 100 percent natural voice.”
In other news Reality TV Magazine has done a little Internet sleuthing to try and predict which contestants make it to the semi-finals. By determining the registration date of certain contestant’s domains to the date of the cut in November they have predicted that Anna Kearns, Shyamali Malakar, and Sanjaya Malakar have made it into the semifinals. The three had their domains privately registered on November 18, a day after the rumored cuts were made. Read the entire story here.