Chikezie Eze American Idol Exit Interview
Chikezie was voted off American Idol on March 26, 2008 but still made the American Idol Top 10. He will tour with the other Idols this summer. Here is a excerpt of the Chikezie Exit Interview:
Q: You said on Tuesday that the band urged you to sing a ballad despite your doubts. Are you upset that you went with the slow song?
A: No, I’m very happy. If I got another chance to do it, I’d do it the exact same way, because that’s the only way that I could have gone home happy — by following my heart. If I did something that wasn’t me, and then I’d gone home, I would have been so upset that I didn’t follow my heart. I would have been so upset and so distraught about it, but I’m so glad I did what I did.
Q: How did you pick your songs each week?
A: I would listen to a song, and first off would see if I could change a song. If I felt it had space for change — because you have so many songs that are just so complete and so established that you feel you can’t even touch them — but you have some that are insecure, like they didn’t get the fame like the other ones, and you think, ‘Oh, maybe I could do this or that.’ If I see that potential, then I’ll go for that. If it’s a complete song, you can’t touch that. And I have to make the most of it, so it has to touch me first.
Q: Were you surprised to be eliminated?
A: I knew I was in the bottom three. I knew I was going home. And that was OK with me. I followed my heart and knew throughout the entire competition that eventually I’d have to go home. So I was fine that it was at a point when I would be able to come back and do a tour.
Q:How does that work when one of you rearranges a classic song? Do you do the arrangement or does Rickey Minor?
A:In most cases you give the idea to Ricky. He’s a genius and he can figure out what’s going on. With ”She’s a Woman” I said I needed a banjo and a fiddler, not a violinist. I gained a lot of inspiration from the fact that when Paul McCartney sang it, he said he was trying to channel Little Richard, but it ended up sounding like bluegrass to me.
Q: Having auditioned for “Idol” during past seasons, what did you do to make it past Hollywood Week and into the top 24 this year?
A: The biggest difference is realizing that, yes, I can sing, but what else? That was probably what hit me the hardest. Last year, the previous year that I auditioned, was, “What’s wrong? Why am I not getting anywhere? Why don’t people get what I’m trying to do?” And I came to the realization that, “OK. I got into this competition thinking all I got to do is sing.” Then you realize, “Hold on. That’s what everybody else is doing.” So you think, “What else can you do? Can you perform? Can you work a stage? Can you entertain?” And that’s the realization that I had to come to to basically step myself up and get to where I got.
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