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Born | [1] Victorville, California, U.S. [2] | July 16, 1996
Origin | Apple Valley, California |
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Chayce Beckham (born July 16, 1996) [1] [a] is a singer-songwriter from Apple Valley, California, who rose to fame after winning the nineteenth season of the singing reality show American Idol .
Beckham was born in Victorville, California, to Windie Petersen and spent his childhood in Victorville, Hesperia, and Apple Valley, California. [2] [3] He went to Carmel Elementary School in Hesperia, [2] Vanguard Preparatory School and Sitting Bull Academy in Apple Valley, before moving to Glendora High School at the age of 12, and continuing at Whitcomb High School, where he graduated in 2014. [4] He worked as a heavy machinery operator and formed a reggae band called the Sinking Sailors when he was 19 or 20. He cited Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., and Hank Williams Sr. as his musical influences, [5] In late 2020, two weeks before he auditioned for American Idol, he was involved in a near-fatal car wreck. [6]
Beckham auditioned for the nineteenth season of the singing reality show American Idol in Los Angeles, California. After surviving Hollywood Week and making it into the Top 5, Beckham received the most votes to win, and on May 23, 2021, he was crowned the winner of the nineteenth season of American Idol, beating runner-up Willie Spence. [7]
On American Idol, he performed "23", which he wrote a year prior, and the song reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart after he performed the song. The song was released as his single. [8] The song made him the first Idol winner to do so with an original song. [9]
Week | Theme | Song(s) | Original artist(s) |
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Audition | Auditioner's Choice | "What Brings Life Also Kills" | Kolton Moore & The Clever Few |
Hollywood Week, Round 1 | Genre | "Hard Times" | Tyler Childers |
Hollywood Week, Round 2 | Duet | "July" (with Christina Daugherty) | Noah Cyrus |
Top 64 | Showstopper Round | "You Should Probably Leave" | Chris Stapleton |
Top 24 | Contestant's Choice | "Afterglow" | Ed Sheeran |
"Drive" (with Brandon Boyd) | Incubus | ||
Top 16 | Contestant's Choice | "Waiting in Vain" | Bob Marley and The Wailers |
Top 12 | Oscar Nominated Songs | "(Everything I Do) I Do it For You" | Bryan Adams |
Top 10 | Disney Night | "Baby Mine" | Betty Noyes |
Top 7 | Coldplay | "Magic" | Coldplay |
Mother's Day | "Mama" | Chayce Beckham | |
Top 4 | Personal Idol | "Colder Weather" | Zac Brown Band |
Winner's song | "23" | Chayce Beckham | |
Reprise song | "You Should Probably Leave" | Chris Stapleton | |
Duet | "Break My Heart Again" (with Casey Bishop) | Finneas O'Connell | |
Finale | Judges' Choice | "Blackbird" | The Beatles |
Hometown Song | "Fire Away" | Chris Stapleton | |
Reprise Song | "Afterglow" | Ed Sheeran |
Collaborator(s) | Song | Original artist |
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Sofia Carson & American Idol Top 9 | "A Whole New World" | Brad Kane and Lea Salonga |
Macklemore & American Idol Top 3 | "Can't Hold Us" | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton |
Fall Out Boy & American Idol Top 4 Boys | "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" | Fall Out Boy |
Lionel Richie & American Idol Top 8 | "One World" | Lionel Richie |
Luke Combs | "Forever After All" | Luke Combs |
N/A | "23" | Chayce Beckham |
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Bad for Me |
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Doinβ It Right |
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US [10] | US Country [11] | US Country Airplay [12] | CAN [13] | CAN Country [14] | ||||
"Can't Do Without Me" (with Lindsay Ell) | 2021 | β | β | 46 | β | β | Non-album single | |
"23" | 2023 | 45 | 8 | 1 | 42 | 1 | Bad for Me | |
"Everything I Need" | 2024 | β | β | 42 | β | β | ||
"β" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Album |
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"Tell Me Twice" [18] | 2022 | Doin' It Right |
"Till the Day I Die" | 2023 | Non-album single |
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