What an amazing talent! Did you notice before he began to sing the judges 1st based his looks and job on whether he would have talent? You would think Simon would have learned something from Clay Aiken!
My mom had a metso-soprano voice and was picked in the top 50 (from a homemade record in 1951) out of 1000 contestants. Unfortunately, my grandma was extremely controlling and abusive so my mom never sent in the second record, she joined the Navy instead, to get away from her mom. It was a funny place for her to be as she was so sheltered that a Wave said, "Damn" in front of her and she didn't speak to her for 3 weeks because she thought she was "A bad girl"!