{"id":62703,"date":"2023-05-13T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/federal-ways-iam-tongi-advances-to-top-5-on-american-idol\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:45:50","slug":"federal-ways-iam-tongi-advances-to-top-5-on-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/federal-ways-iam-tongi-advances-to-top-5-on-american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Way’s Iam Tongi advances to Top 5 on ‘American Idol’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of competition, Decatur High School student Iam Tongi has reached the final stages of this year’s “American Idol.”<\/p>\n

Tongi, originally from Kahuku, Oahu, is now one of the top five competitors left on the show.<\/p>\n

His recent performances on the show continue to span genres and decades, and included Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home to Me,” Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” Alanis Morissette’s “Guardian” and a duet of Ed Sheeran’s “Photograph” with fellow competitor Oliver Steele.<\/p>\n

There are only a few more episodes left for “Idol,” which wraps up in late May. The show airs Sundays and Mondays on ABC, and can be streamed on Hulu.<\/p>\n

The fate of the contestants, including Tongi, comes down to audience voting. For more information on how to vote, visit https:\/\/idolvote.abc.com\/#faq<\/a><\/p>\n

Talk to us<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you an “American Idol” fan, a parent or student at Decatur, a member of the Polynesian community, or anyone else touched by Iam Tongi’s appearances on “American Idol?”<\/p>\n

We’d like to know what his performances mean for you, in terms of cultural representation, musicianship, or anything else. Email alex.bruell@soundpublishing.com to share your stories or thoughts on the rising musician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decatur High School student shows no signs of slowing down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":62704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62703"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}