'American Idol' winner Noah Thompson dishes on his friendship with runner-up, HunterGirl. Plus, why he launched a full model of 'Keep,' what he is been as much as post-show and extra!
Lower than three months after profitable American Idol, 20-year-old Noah Thompson is again within the highlight together with his first post-show music launch! Noah acquired main reward for his rendition of Rihanna’s hit “Keep” on the present, and determined to launch a full model of the music on July 29. “I really feel like “Keep” was one in all my greatest moments on the present,” Noah defined to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “No one expects me, out of all folks, to step on the market and sing that sort of music by Rihanna. I had loads of feedback and lots of people reaching out to me saying, ‘You need to do a full model of this.’ As quickly because the present ended, they got here to me with the thought of doing a complete nation model and I used to be fully on-board for that. I’ve wished to do this ceaselessly anyway, so I used to be excited.”
Within the months since profitable Idol, Noah has maintained a detailed relationship with a number of different contestants on his season. He and the present’s runner-up, HunterGirl, have stayed significantly shut on account of operating in the identical nation music circles. “Me and Hunter bought extraordinarily shut in the direction of the top, in all probability from high 10 on,” Noah stated. “We had our trailers aspect by aspect and every part. We sort of talked one another by way of every day. We have been simply there for each other. Me and Hunter are greatest mates — we’ve been greatest mates ever since then and we’ll all the time be there for one another. You sort of want that in doing this. We’re simply there for one another like that.”
After all, one other crucial particular person in Noah’s life is his son, Walker. Whereas Noah admitted his toddler remains to be “too younger” to know what’s occurring, he gushed over how vital it’s been to have him alongside for the experience. “That was the entire level of me doing this present. It’s for him,” Noah admitted. “I need Walker to develop up and take a look at all of this like, ‘That’s my dad.’ That’s going to be one in all my most proud moments. I like the considered that. It’s going to be an enormous factor for me.”
Noah additionally confirmed that he’s been arduous at work writing new music, and promised that he’ll get some authentic tunes on the market for his followers someday quickly. Nonetheless, regardless that he’s now forging his personal path within the music trade, he stated there’s an vital piece of recommendation he bought on American Idol that he’ll all the time take with him. “Lionel [Richie] was me after we bought executed performing one time and he advised me, for the remainder of my life, to step on that stage with massive boots and personal that stage,” Noah revealed. “I by no means forgot that. I’ll keep in mind that till the day I die. Coming from Lionel Richie, clearly that’s an enormous factor. I’ll always remember that.”