American Idol 2022: Contestant Leah Marlene of Normal, Illinois, makes it to Top 5

Hosea Sanders simply caught up together with her preparing for this Sunday’s present, and Leah wants your vote to make it to the High Three!

“It is a very overwhelming time, however in all one of the best methods,” Leah Marlene stated.

Marlene has gotten loads of help from house, however she’s additionally seeing common help and a giant fan base constructing as properly.

“Oh my gosh it is loopy,” Leah Marlene stated. “My hometown and the encircling areas have been insane. I’ve by no means seen them rally for something so exhausting, I have been there my complete life.”

Leah Marlene has undergone fairly the transformation over the season, with Decide Katy Perry telling her, “I do not know who I am taking a look at. You wore a bucket hat and the patchwork outfit and now you are simply mature and sleek and also you appear like an angel and also you sound like an angel.”

“I find it irresistible, present days are my favourite,” Leah Marlene stated. “I get to get my hair did and my make-up carried out. It is simply so enjoyable to precise your self outwardly what’s inside. Some persons are saying, ‘You appear like a special individual,’ and I am like, actually the identical.”

Leah Marlene has been placing in a lot of work main as much as Sunday’s episode.

“It is quick lived,” she stated. “It should be over in lower than two weeks now, so that you sort of obtained to lean into it.”

And her new single “Flowers” simply dropped Friday.

“It is sort of a letter to my previous self a 12 months or two in the past, saying regardless of how far gone chances are you’ll really feel, there’s at all times a means out,” Marlene stated. “And the lead line is, ‘Even the pavement offers method to the flowers.’”

Leah Marlene is relying on her followers to maintain her dream alive.

“That is the final vote earlier than the finale and it is an important vote of the season,” she stated. “I really like you guys and I can not wait to play music for you all quickly.”

Watch American Idol on ABC 7 Sunday night time at 7 p.m. and bear in mind to vote for Leah Marlene!