I've been in the room for Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, and Billie Holiday, cooked for Janis Joplin's crew, plus my Mom simply loved Patsy Kline -- and this girl at 20 has Ella's heart, Wino's "Frank" voice plus a top range, and a oner personality.
"Show-bon-bon" popped up through the American Idol system. A relief from radio-aimed singing acts and Lady GaGa Hell.
Still, how many kids have a "Gashlycrumb Tinies" Edward Gorey tattoo ???
How many qualify as a "non-partier."
This kid has things in common with Josh Grobin, Janis, and Bob Dylan. At best... musical passion with a wonderful voice and Irish-American working class heart through and through.
"House of the Rising Sun" and "Paint It Black" BTF:::
Trained for music by her father -- sitting at a piano in their cluttered, child-swamped living room:
House of the Rising Sun:
Eye of Horus.
Mick Jagger's funeral song Paint It Black:
This second vid has some of the background on her. You see the family and her sense of humor.
Where will she be at 25 ??? This is a very smart kid. Drugs, not. Craziness, not. Mindful.
Huge family. Huge heart... a delight. Aware and brick-wall-resistant to the show's 24/7 efforts to change the contestants
This world has lots of bad things. Siobhan is one of the good ones.