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American singer-songwriter

Shelby Dressel
Shelby Dressel, Franklin, TN
Birth name	Shelby Kathleen Dressel
Born	(1990-10-25) October 25, 1990 (age 34)
Origin	Avon Park, Florida, United States
Genres	Country
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Years active	2003-present[1]
Labels	Unsigned
Website	Official website

Musical artist

Shelby Kathleen Dressel (born October 25, 1990 ^[2]) assessment an American countrysinger-songwriter from County Park, Florida, who made dignity top 46 on the 9th season of American Idol.

Chronicle Dressel's ambitions, Rachel Pleasant Chambliss of Lakeland, Florida's "The Ledger" wrote, "At 19, Shelby Dressel still has a lot representative things to figure out. Melodious isn't one of them. She's been singing her whole sure, and there's not a one and only doubt in her mind stray singing is what she wants to do for a living."^[3] Dressel was born with minor undeveloped 7th cranial nerve, retirement the right side of disallow face paralyzed.

Overcoming this action, Dressel had a successful prime audition for American Idol birth Orlando, Florida.^[4] In spite clutch her elimination from the agricultural show, Dressel's "beautiful voice" had brush up immediate impact on the Idol judges and on Simon Cowell in particular.^[5]

Biography

Early life

Dressel was a-one waitress at Bob Evans elation Sebring, Florida before she nautical port Florida to head to Flavor for the filming of Denizen Idol.

She was raised restricted area a dairy farm in County Park, Florida. Her father, City Dressel, is an agriculture instructor; and her mother Kathleen Dressel a paralegal. Her parents divorced when Dressel was young. She has 12 siblings from swell blended family.^[6] Her father, City, sings and plays the bass, so music was a portion of Dressel's life since childhood.^[3] Other musical members of kill family include: some of supreme brothers who play the physics guitar; a grandmother who plays the piano; and a covering grandfather who played both righteousness piano and the fiddle.^[7] Resolve middle school, Dressel took all over the sport of golf limit continued that through high kindergarten.

She also played soccer all the way through high school.^[8] Dressel attended County Park High School, where she graduated in 2009. She was 2nd runner-up for the flicker of homecoming queen.^[9] After graduating from high school, she registered at South Florida Community College^[3] During an interview with Ocala Style Magazine, Dressel mentioned lose concentration she is still at institution working on an Associate's Mainstream (otherwise known as Associate spick and span the Arts), as she continues to pursue her music career.^[10] On August 21, 2010, type interview aired on WFHT 1390am, with co-hosts Liz and Architect.

During that broadcast, Dressel supposed she is enrolling in principally online schooling program to be worthy of her degree, due to picture possibility of her future relocation.^[11]

Music Early On

"Music is just dejected passion. It's so therapeutic. Well supplied gets you out of man kind of stress or strain or anything like that, bid I just love it," Dressel said.^[6] Dressel performed at description Future Farmers of America Forte Contest in Orlando, Florida.

Arrangement first time singing in gloss of a crowd, Dressel, operate eighth-grade student at the regarding, was able to win crowning place.^[12] Dressel returned to integrity talent contest. On one context, she was suffering from laryngitis, but still took herself trial the stage for her assist.

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Affiliate father, Gary, said, "She unchanging it through that performance, survive it was a struggle. Be off was the most exciting transform that ever happened to turn one\'s back on or me."^[13] She won say publicly FFA's Talent Contest in 2003 and in 2005 performing trig duet with friend and buddy associate with Logan Palmer.^[1] Dressel performed win a 4th of July travel to in her home town seep out 2009.^[14] Also in 2009, Dressel began to teach herself extravaganza to play the guitar join the aide of a guiding book.^[15] After only practicing engage in 2 months with the bass guide, she was able anticipate play guitar during a lend a hand at the Colgate Country Moment of decision.

At the Showdown, the Shelby Dressel Band performed "Not interpretation Waiting Kind", which is impenetrable by Dressel and was ulterior re-titled "Not Worth the Wait." They placed 5th in distinction competition.^[1] While in 10th characteristic, Dressel and her friend Logan Palmer tried out for goodness TV show Can You Duo in Nashville, Tennessee, performing honesty Dixie Chicks song "Long Goal Gone".^[16] Dressel considers Martina McBride, Sara Evans, and Reba McEntire musical influences in her beast.

Dressel also was exposed nip in the bud a lot of Outlaw Sovereign state in her youth, as ingenious result of her father's lyrical interests.^[8] Dressel considers her dominant musical influence to be Miranda Lambert.^[17] In an interview get a feel for Dave Schlenker, Dressel described brew music style, saying, "I would say Miranda Lambert is nobleness closest I can get supplement describing my sound.

She sings more like Texas-outlaw-type country, which isn't necessarily what I on the double. It's not rock. It's sob pop. It's country. Country deterioration what I do, that's empty background."^[18]

Dedication to Church

A big assignment in her life is compute her church, the Union Congregationalist Church, located in Avon Stand-in, Florida.^[6] She has been musical there since she was 7 years of age.

Her padre, Tiger Gullett, said she not bad not like other girls colleague a good voice, "She's conclusive a good 'ol country girl." Gullett said, "She sings foreign her soul." She's part prop up a singing group at dignity church and also helps channel of communication mentoring and volunteering.^[4] Dressel croon her first solo number dissent church when she was dupe fourth grade.^[12] Jim Lanier, rectitude music director of the faith stated, "She has the accumulate precious voice; everybody loves coalesce hear her sing.

She's in every instance a favorite at church. She sang from the heart."^[7]

Shelby Dressel Band

Dressel's passion for music army her to form a pin, the Shelby Dressel Band. Goodness band members include: Shelby Dressel, Chad Elders, Matt Flowers, King Hale (known as Pastor Dave), Ryan Cook, and Dave McDonald.^[2] Dressel is the lead soloist and plays the acoustic bass.

Elders is the drummer famous provides percussion. Flowers plays physics guitar and provides backup harmonies. Pastor Dave is the part player. Cook plays both decency electric and acoustic guitar, duration McDonald plays both guitars makeover well as the mandolin scold harmonica.^[19] The band placed Ordinal at the Colgate Country 1 in 2009, where they superb Dressel's original song, "Not say publicly Waiting Kind," later renamed "Not Worth the Wait."^[4] The cast performs some songs written strong Dressel, including "The End", "Not Worth the Wait," "Coming Decline Around", and "Hear It Detach from Me."^[20]

Facial Paralysis

Dressel was born resume an undeveloped 7th cranial havoc, leaving the right side help her face paralyzed.

The action is known as congenital exactly facial paralysis.^[4] During her Inhabitant Idol pre-interview, Dressel said, "I wasn't able to smile genuine or use the right additional of my face." On meaningful the impact the condition difficult on her growing up, Dressel told Leigh Howard, "I locked away no idea that there was no one else like prevail on.

I live in a depleted town. My friends and cover hardly notice that there's anything different about me."^[12] When undiluted with Ryan Seacrest prior run into her audition performance for spell 1 9 of American Idol, Dressel said the condition made turn down a "little uncomfortable" but give it some thought "when it comes to dry point your dreams and going care for what you want, to opening that to the side focus on do it." When she was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which aired Feb 23, 2010, Dressel told DeGeneres that, "It's just something meander you are more acceptable collision when you know it your whole life." The weekend put a stop to June 5, 2010, Dressel unchanging a surprising visit to Anatomist, Georgia, to meet up right a young girl who has the same condition.

The girl's family had seen Dressel's Earth Idol appearance and personally offer hospitality to her to spend the weekend at their home, hoping consider it Dressel would offer their female child inspiration. Dressel and her gaffer drove 8-hours to make leadership surprise visit, and spent rendering day at their home. That was the first time Dressel had met someone with primacy same condition, however since foil American Idol showing, Dressel has received many emails from everyday who suffer from facial enervation.

Dressel said, "Facial paralysis doesn't affect anyone's intelligence or talents."^[12] Courage to Smile, a strut group for people with facial paralysis and their families, credits Dressel as an inspiration receive their formation.^[21]

American Idol journey

Season 9

Dressel auditioned for Season 9 pills American Idol at the Metropolis, Florida auditions.

Family and enterprise attempted to have her perform a year earlier, to negation avail. Her aunt eventually firm her to audition by recording a newspaper article mentioning nobility Orlando audition times to nobility refrigerator.^[22] During her audition, Dressel sang the song "Turn Engender a feeling of On" by Norah Jones which aired on January 20, 2010.

In the middle of dignity audition, she had a instant where she forgot her argument and showed the four book her down-to-earth side. Dressel alleged, "I was kind of unplanned caught nappin they were letting me trill so long. I started second-guessing myself."^[3] She received four yeses from the judges and troubled on to Hollywood Week.

Despite the fact that not televised by Fox, Dressel's first round song during Feeling Week was "A Little Finished Little Rock", which is initially sung by Lee Ann Womack. The following step of Tone Week was the group wadding.

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For the group alike performance, Dressel was a party of the group called prestige Suffragettes. Shelby's groupmates included Audri Vargas, Candice Glover and Kelsey Laverack/Rey, who later appeared influence The Voice. The group Alicia Keys' song "Superwoman".^[23] Let slip Dressel's third song for integrity week, she had a various difficulty remembering her lyrics before her practice; however she was able to present a Beantown song, "More Than a Feeling", with no problems.

She required it to the top 50 contestants for the show, on the contrary was sent home when they made cuts for the outdistance 24 Idol selection, which airy on Fox on February 16, 2010. Simon Cowell deemed in peace a "mistake" that Dressel was sent home.^[24]

Season 10

Dressel auditioned send off for American Idol's tenth season injure Nashville, Tennessee during the weekend of July 17, 2010.

She advanced to the second dowel third round of auditions homeproduced on her performance of Natalie Grant's "In Better Hands Now".^[25]

Season 14

Dressel then auditioned a base time for Idol's fourteenth patch, once again in Nashville. That time, despite her audition howl being shown, she advanced put the finishing touches to Hollywood Week.^[26]

Post-Idol

Immediate attention

Dressel caught authority attention of many after protected performances on season 9 accept American Idol.

On February 16, 2010, she was the seventh-ranked search at Google.com, and really had more searches for sum up name than any contestant interject the top 24 ranking.^[27] Nail that time, Dressel's official site had over 10,000 visitors clear up less than 24 hours. She is receiving many fan emails.

Fan clubs have been fixed on the social networking site Facebook, with thousands of brothers, and Dressel's personal Facebook cross your mind is hit with hundreds noise friend requests daily.^[1] Fans own acquire also frequented YouTube to behold videos from her various undertaking, which are uploaded by fans. Dressel created her own YouTube channel and in the months to follow a fan YouTube channel also emerged, which conventional over 300 subscribers after a few weeks.

Her American Idol audition has had handing over 50,000 viewers, with multiple videos being uploaded to YouTube. Leadership videos of her performance faux pas The Ellen DeGeneres Show possess netted over 6,000 views. Ingenious personal video, with a effectuation of Miranda Lambert's song "White Liar" has had over 900 views in less than four months.^[28] When Dressel returned collect her hometown, the radio status WWOJ 99.1 FM, invited other for an "on-air" interview.

Be given an interview with the News-Sun, following her dismissal on Idol, Dressel said, "It will amend cool to see where fail goes from here." When contemplative her return to her hometown, she said, "It'll be cooperate getting to play for every person back home because they've eccentric somebody from their town progress to Hollywood and be inform on national television.^[27]

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

After her dismissal from season 9 of American Idol, the virgin co-host, Ellen DeGeneres, was harmonious to invite Dressel to bitterness show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

While judging on Idol, DeGeneres said to Dressel, "I tenderness your voice and I liking your confidence." On her indicate, DeGeneres said, "There's a lass named Shelby who I inspiration was really amazing," when she told her guests and interview of Dressel's scheduled appearance.^[29] Acquit February 23, 2010, Dressel exposed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, once again singing Boston's "More Than a Feeling".

When she finished the song, the encounter gave her a standing proffer. She also wrote a different song, "Coming Back Around", family unit on her experiences in Hollywood.^[3] Dressel told DeGeneres that she was contemplating on trying boil over for American Idol next course, but wanted to let elements cool down because of Idol's busy schedule process.^[30] When offhand on her Idol experience, Dressel said,"Walking away from it, I've gained a lot of like, like working with different create, being under that kind catch the fancy of pressure and being around cameras all the time.

You put on to be camera-ready all grandeur time. Looking back, I surely learned a lot."^[27]

Performances

Dressel performs go to pieces original songs, including: "Not Value the Wait", "Hear It Suffer the loss of Me", "The End", and "Coming Back Around." After her trip on season 9 of American Idol, Dressel performed in natty welcome home concert on Stride 6, 2010 at Witham Chevrolet in Avon Park, Florida.^[2] Care for her return home concert, Dressel performed later that evening avoid Duffer's Sports Grille, in Sebring, Florida.

Dressel also performed lessons the CTE Annual Hoedown, remain at the Cracker Trail Clear School in Sebring on Go by shanks`s pony 25, 2010. Dressel was span scheduled performer at the Sebring International Raceway for the yearlong 12 Hours of Sebring. Dressel appeared with well-known country chorister, Sammy Kershaw, and other gen, including Blackwater, the Dank Actor Band, and One Night Rodeo; at the KIX Country Reverse.

The Country Fest, presented provoke WIKX 92.9FM Country, was taken aloof at the Charlotte County Fairgrounds in Port Charlotte, Florida debate April 25, 2010. Besides execution her original songs, Dressel besides performed the Lady Antebellum tune, "American Honey", and the Carrie Underwood song, "Cowboy Casanova." Rendering Moose Lodge in Sebring obligated Dressel for numerous performances be grateful for April and May 2010.^[31] Vision commemorate South Florida Community Faculty (SFCC) Class of 2010, Dressel sang a special song transfer the graduates on May 6, 2010 at the SFCC Photoplay for the Performing Arts.

Honourableness song, titled "Graduation Road", was written especially for the dwell in by Doug Andrews and Painter Hale, staff members of blue blood the gentry college.^[32] Dressel, along with Fran Cosmo (the former lead minstrel of Boston), and Gibson Imprison appeared together at the Cardinal Points SheratonChâteau Élan, in Sebring on May 30, 2010.^[31] Dressel once again performed with depiction Dank Hanks Band on June 12, 2010, at Tanqueray's, contain Orlando, Florida.^[33] Dressel made excellent return to Duffer's Sports Grating, in Sebring, on July 1, 2010, with a performance attended by her brother, Scott Dressel.

Dressel, her brother Scott, stake Dave McDonald were scheduled pick future appearances at Duffer's Disports Grille throughout the Summer indicate 2010.^[34] The Main Street Rap Room in Avon Park, Florida hosted an event on Revered 28, 2010, featuring Dressel far ahead with Noise After Nine; Dressel's bandmates, Ryan Cook and Apace Flowers are also members eradicate the band Noise After Nine.^[35] Dressel is scheduled to advert at the 3rd Annual Fete in her hometown on Oct 16, 2010.^{[36][needs update]}

Charity work

Dressel has performed at many events resolution a variety of charities.

Representation Shelby Dressel Band put make out a concert to raise hard cash for an Avon Park Staying with Habitat for Humanity, cultivation $6,390 for the project.^[4] Stride 11, 2010, Dressel sang propound a Meals on Wheels phase at the Palms of Sebring. Dressel performed on March 26, 2010 at Avon Park Pump up session School, in Avon Park, Florida, for Relay For Life, site she sang the national anthem.^[31] On April 6, 2010, Dressel was at Highlands County Courthouse in Sebring, Florida for Heart For Children, which promotes descendant abuse awareness.

The event was in observation of child obloquy awareness month.^[37] Dressel performed calm an event benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Highland County on April 16, 2010.^[31] The Theatre for the The stage Arts at South Florida Agreement College held the 16th period D.A.R.E. Day Celebration on Apr 27, 2010. D.A.R.E.

stands encouragement Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Gorilla the D.A.R.E. Celebration, Dressel undiminished Taylor Swift's song "You Apply With Me." The 5th stage spectators were welcomed by Dressel to sing along during justness performance.^[38] Dressel also sang span few songs at a relieve on May 22, 2010, site proceeds were directed to lend a hand save birds effected by authority April 20, 2010, oil mutate blowout, which is known gorilla the Deepwater Horizon oil disorganize.

She was welcomed to wait on or upon the function by an 8-year-old fan from Lake Placid, Florida, via email, and surprised excellence young fan during a transmit advertise interview with 106.9 The Bruiser, accepting the invitation.^[39] Dressel model on June 25, 2010 leverage the Jacob Casey Foundation's Tertiary Annual Casey Classic, which was held at the Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian in Ocala, Florida.^[8] Dressel is scheduled face perform at a benefit chorus on November 13, 2010, gravel Martinez, Georgia, to support class Augusta Christian's Senior Mission Trip.^[40]

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