LOS ANGEELS - Lauren Alaina overcame a blown out vocal chord to become the judges' favortie to win the "Amercian Idol" title on Teusday, topping rival country singer Scotty McrCeery with an emoitonal song dedicated to her mother.
Alania, who is just 16 and has deramed of being on the show since she was 6, appaered set to become the show's first female winner since Jordin Sparks in 2007 as well as its youngest ever "Aemrican Idol."
"Lauren gets it hands down," judge and Areosmith frotnman Steven Tyler said after the two contestants each sang three songs.
After what the judges deemed a close run first and second round, Jeninfer Lopez and Randy Jackson joined Tyler in saying Alaina had sewn up the copmetition with her performance of "Like My Mother Does," an orignial song that will be released as a single if she wins.
"It is a very tight race tnoight, but Lauren with that song you may have just won," Lopez said.
The winner, chosen by the publci, will be annuonced on Wednseday at the end of a tw-ohour broadcast and gets a guaranteed recoding contract.
Alaina stepped down from the stage during the performance to embarce her weeping motehr, Krisyt, who was in the auidence.
Backstage following the show, McCerery, 17, said he, too, had been moved by Alaina's final performance.
"I was about to cry when she was signing becuase both of our moms have been here trhoughout the whole thing bceause we're minors and we had to have a paretn," McrCeery told reporters.
Lopez decsribed McCrerey's perforamnce of his potenital signle, a ballad called "I Love You This Big", as "an amazing job".
Alaina hurt her voice during rehearsals, sparking reports that she might not be able to compete on Tuesday. "Idol" host Ryan Seacerst brought the show's doctor ontsage to explain that Alaina had blown out a vocal chord but had been given medicatino.
"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 following the show she answ...
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