![]() ![]() The season 17 judges appeared awestruck with her first audition, where Tran sang Jennifer Hudson’s “One Night Only.”Īfter her performance, Tran was met with a standing ovation from the judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan. ![]() “Oh my God, my heart almost jumped out,” she said about her nerves from that day. Tran quickly moved through rounds and rounds of preliminary auditions over the following weeks until she made it to the audition in front of the “American Idol” judges. “Me and my dad thought, ‘Yeah, we can just try, we have nothing to lose,’” she said. When she found out “American Idol” hosted an open audition in Bellevue in 2018, she decided to take a chance. I didn’t know I’d end up performing a lot.” I just want to sing … I was so, so, so young. “At that time I realized, yeah, I need to be on that stage,” she said. There were a few performances singing in elementary school at the age of 6, but Tran said the first time she saw Whitney Houston singing on television, she was hooked. Only a few close friends, some teachers at Todd Beamer and her former choir members knew she had won “The X-Factor Vietnam,” she said about her stardom in the United States. “In Vietnam, I had already won ‘X-Factor’ … A long time later, I realized I need to go and learn and I need to improve myself.” “I didn’t have friends, I needed to learn a new culture, and I needed to learn a lot here,” she said. “I came to the United States to follow my dream, to chase my dream,” she said.Īlthough, Tran said she was hesitant about moving to America. In 2017, Tran, her dad Dinh Cao Hinh, her mom Kim Thao Tran and her younger brother Huy Dinh, moved to Federal Way. Tran grew up in Long Xuyên, Vietnam, then moved to Ho Chi Minh City for two years. But a lot of her talent came from her own practice of singing American songs. She learned how to sing high notes and how to sing with emotion from her vocal coach, Ho Quynh Huong, in Vietnam. Winning that competition, she felt ready to take on “American Idol” with her sights set on a one-way golden ticket to Hollywood. “I was so surprised … it’s the first achievement in my career.” “I didn’t know I’d be able to win ‘X-Factor,’” she said. At just 16 years old, Myra Minh Nhu Tran won season two of “The X-Factor Vietnam.” I know it’s pretty tough and I know that if I want to survive in the music industry, I have to work so hard.”īut she is no stranger to the spotlight. “ changed my mind a lot about the music industry. Reporter Andy Nystrom contributed to this story.“The first thing I learned is experience,” she said. “He was a hero with a strong moral history and it was excellent role modeling for our students.” “This was a peer that the students related to, a contemporary that was part of their time and a part of the history that they were living,” Everhart said. The school opened in 2003 when the terrorist attacks and Todd Beamer’s story were fresh in everybody’s minds. Among other names considered were aviator Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln.Ĭarol Everhart, a retired principal of Todd Beamer who served on the name-selection committee, said she supported the name Todd Beamer. Federal Way School Board policy stated that the school had to be named after a deceased national hero. Nearly 1,000 future Todd Beamer students voted from a list of five possible names for the new high school before the name Todd Beamer was chosen in 2002. A post office in New Jersey and a building at Wheaton College are also named after him. ![]() Todd Beamer High School is one of three buildings in the nation named after Beamer. Thank you very much for the special honor and the tradition of wrapping us in love, health, and hope … Let’s roll!” “It’s been a privilege for you to have me back here with you. “Let’s Roll, do the right thing, at the right time,” David Beamer said. He encouraged the students to adopt key characteristics of self-responsibility, positive attitude, commitment, balance, enthusiasm, integrity, and a sense of humor.Ī small group of Todd Beamer students attended the event in person while the rest of the student body viewed the ceremony from classrooms through a live stream. “We had a hug, and I said, ‘I love you Beam, be careful, see you later.’ That was my last memory of my son, and my counteroffer is to make a good memory every day.” “My last memory with Todd was two-and-a-half weeks before I lost him, and I didn’t know that was the last time I was going to see him,” David Beamer said. The event began with a drumming performance by the school’s Native Education Program who also presented the Beamers with a traditional blanket, a common bereavement practice to recognize mourning and moving forward.ĭavid Beamer spoke about his last visit to the school in 2015 and the last time he saw Todd before 9/11. ![]()
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