Season 12 Episode 3

She’s already sang for President Barack Obama, so does Kiara Lanier have what it takes to make it far in American Idol 2013?
 
Our Season 12 Top 40 spoiler list doesn’t name have the towering Chicago beauty, but we still loved her version of Celine Dion’s “The Prayer,” which you can watch below.
 
Who knows, we might be eating our words come Hollywood Week!

We’ve never seen a contestant to bring her kid into her American Idol audition. But Seretha Guinn’s daughter London was so cute, how could we say no?
 
The Charlotte, North Carolina native auditioned on the sly without telling her boyfriend, who was in a serious car accident last year. She wanted to surprise him with good news, and we’re pretty sure a ticket to Hollywood......

If Miss Greater Baton Rouge can’t make it to Hollywood Week, who will?
 
Thankfully, Megan Miller impressed the American Idol 2013 judges by showing up to her audition in crutches (the poor girl was in an accident only three days prior), and with her take on Etta James’s “Something’s Got a Hold On Me.”
 
So does this beauty queen make it into the Top 40...

We were surprised as anyone else that Ashley “Blondie” Smith turned out to have one heck of a voice! The bespectacled singer gave off some serious crazy vibes, but her version of Carrie Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova” had the American Idol 2013 judges raising their eyebrows in a good way.
 
So how far does Ashley get on Season 12 of Idol? We didn’t see...

Mariah Pulice’s heartbreaking struggle with anorexia made the American Idol 2013 judges tear up, but will the Chicago native’s perseverance carry her past Hollywood Week?
 
Our Season 12 Top 40 spoiler list doesn’t name Mariah as one of the lucky singers to make it to Las Vegas. She made a tearful exit during Round 3 of Hollywood Week, but her sister vowed that she'd...