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With\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0jumping to two episodes per week, the show looked ahead to Sunday as judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan continued to eliminate contestants during Hollywood Week. Airing on April 6th, just a day later, the contestants will find themselves taking part in the new \u201cHead-to-Head\u201d round. While adding some new elements to the show,\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0also wanted to celebrate Easter Sunday with a special episode. And with a new episode scheduled to air that night,\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0produced a special titled \u201cSongs of Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n While a single episode of\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0can run from an hour to two hours, the producers are pulling out all the stops on Easter with a three-hour special. Besides allowing the remaining contestants to take the stage to sing songs inspired by faith, the night will also feature performances from stars like CeCe Winans, Brandon Lake, Roman Collins, and even Jelly Roll. That was just the start as the three judges also looked to take the stage.<\/p>\n Sharing his love for\u00a0American Idol<\/em>, Jelly Roll became somewhat of a constant face on the show. And on April 7th, he will debut as the \u201cArtist in Residence.\u201d Making his appearance during Hollywood Week, Jelly Roll will remain throughout the season, hoping to give the contestants support and maybe a little advice. Given his own past, there appeared no better person to get advice from than Jelly Roll himself.<\/p>\n Making some major changes to how show the operated during season 23,\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0also celebrated the return of Underwood. Winning season four, the hitmaker hoped to give some advice to those looking to make a career in the music industry.<\/p>\n Proving her ability to offer constructive criticism, showrunner\u00a0Megan Wolflick praised Underwood, noting, \u201cShe embodies the true spirit of \u2018Idol\u2019 as she herself is the definition of the Cinderella story. Our future hopefuls will have the chance to receive advice from someone who has walked in their exact footsteps every step of the way. Carrie has always been a strong supporter of \u2018Idol,\u2019 and I\u2019m thrilled for her to be reunited with our \u2018Idol\u2019 Family.\u201d<\/p>\n With Underwood, Richie, Bryan, Jelly Roll, and several others taking the stage for the \u201cSongs of Faith\u201d special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With\u00a0American Idol\u00a0jumping to two episodes per week, the show looked ahead to Sunday as judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan continued to eliminate contestants during… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJelly Roll New \u201cArtist In Residence\u201d On \u2018American Idol\u2019<\/h3>\n