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  American Idol: Georgetown College alum Lauren Mink getting second shot at Hollywwod

  Filed under: American Idol, Country music, Music, Television; Tagged as: American Idol, Kelly Casey, Lauren Mink, Season 12
  
  

  Georgetown College alum Lauren Mink has advanced to the Hollywood round of American Idol for the second consecutive year. © Georgetown College photo.

  Central Kentucky has more of a rooting interest in the Hollywood round of American Idol as Winchester’s Lauren Mink, a Georgetown College alum, is getting a second chance at the competition. Mink advanced to Hollywood last year but did not make it to the live competition.

  She will be joined in Hollywood by Kelly Casey of Nicholasville, who advanced out of the Baton Rouge auditions.

  Mink auditioned in Charlotte, which was shown Wednesday night, and impressed a mostly new slate of judges including Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey.

  “The judges were so different this year,” Mink says in a video on the Idol website. “I was really excited there was Keith Urban, who is a country person, which is awesome. They never had a country judge before. But I was shocked that Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey liked me so much. They’re probably the ones that were most complimentary to me.”

  According to her Facebook page, Mink started singing at age 9 and has performed around Central Kentucky and recorded two albums, an inspirational/contemporary Christian album and a collection of country originals.

  Like Casey, Mink counts fellow country singer Carrie Underwood among her favorite Idol winners, though she’s also a fan of original winner Kelly Clarkson.

  And like pretty much everyone else in the competition, Mink thinks she would be an ideal Season 12 winner.

  “I think I’m a good singer,” Mink says on her video. “It’s taken me a long time to say that I’m a good singer. It’s taken a lot of people telling me I’m a good singer. I don’t feel like I’m cocky about it. I feel like I’m just very confident in who I am as an artist, and I think that I’m also a good role model.”

  Also like Casey, Mink was not seen in the episode covering the audition from which she advanced. But Hollywood is coming.

  Note: The original posting of this story misidentified Mink as a Georgetown College student. She is an alum.

  
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