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Contestants performed in front of their families. Stallworth earned big cheers from the crowd and a standing ovation from all three celebrity judges.<\/p>\n
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He survived a cut from 30 to 20 contestants.<\/p>\n
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The show\u2019s top 20 singers are expected to perform over two episodes scheduled to air March 16 and 23. The contestants will perform for viewers\u2019 votes the next time they appear, according to the show.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n\n Judges Lionel Richie, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan have had nothing but praise for Moss Point\u2019s Daniel Stallworth on this season\u2019s American Idol. Eric McCandless Disney<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n
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Related Stories from Biloxi Sun Herald<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sunherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moss Point native Daniel Stallworth has advanced on \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d \u2014 again. The 27-year-old\u2019s performance on the hit singing competition earned him a spot among the show\u2019s top 20 contestants during the latest episode Monday night. Stallworth sang \u201cThe Climb\u201d by Miley Cyrus on the Monday night episode, which was filmed at a resort in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2320809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[27820,449777,345130,445085,449778],"class_list":["post-2320808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-american-idol","tag-daniel-stallworth","tag-mississippi","tag-moss-point","tag-top-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Moss-Point-MS-native-advances-to-\u2018American-Idol-top-20.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320810,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320808\/revisions\/2320810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}