posted by Administrator on May 16
Syesha Mercado was a late-blooming American Idol seventh-season finalist, but once she hit her stride, she rode it all the way to the Top 3.
“When I first stepped into the competition, I was really in a little shell,” Mercado told reporters during a Thursday conference call.
“I don’t feel like I was at my full potential because of the entire negative mind frame that I was in because of, like ‘Oh, nobody really sees who I am.’ And I was so focused on that that it was really harming my performance. And once I got my mind right again… I became more comfortable with myself and the stage. And the feeling of being overlooked completely subsided, and it was just a matter of being consistent every week and eventually, people would recognize me, and that’s exactly what happened.”
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