Spring Break
UGA Idol shares her wisdom
EVA VASQUEZ
Issue date: 11/3/09 Section: News
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Sara Intner is the co-chair of the event and a member of Sigma Delta Tau.
"We are looking for students at UGA who are musically talented, and also have a good personality," she said. "We ask those auditioning to bring a $5 donation to ugaMiracle."
After the first round of the closed auditions Wednesday, 15 to 20 people will be chosen to compete in the show at Hodgson Hall on Feb. 2. The winner will receive $500, the opportunity to perform at Greek Grind and will go on to compete in the Atlanta competition Campus Superstar.
Terica Lyles, a fifth year speech communications major from Phenix City, Ala., is the reigning UGA Idol. Lyles shared her experience and offered words of wisdom to those who plan to audition this year.
Q: What song did you sing at the initial audition?
A: Well they had us lined up in a group of five or so, and they gave us each about 30 seconds to sing whatever. For that I sang "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra. Then they narrowed it down to three, and asked each of us to come in one by one. I sang "All the Man That I Need" by Whitney Houston.
Q: How did the judges react? Could you tell you were going to do well?
A: In the initial audition, the judges were pretty stone faced. I was surprised they called me back to sing another song.
Q: What was more nerve-wracking - the first closed audition or the show competition?
A: I was more nervous about the show, because I had tried out two times before and never made it past the initial audition. And I knew a lot of the talent in the show, because I was in the African American Choral Ensemble (AACE) - we had like maybe five out of the 18 people in the show come out of AACE.
Q: How did you prepare for the show?
A: It took forever to choose a song. But they matched us up with people from the music business program, who helped us pick.
Q: Are there some songs that people should stay away from?
