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The 21st season of "American Idol" is inching closer to the finals. The show just announced its Top 5 performers left in the competition: Wé Ani, Megan Danielle, Zachariah Smith, Colin Stough, and Iam Tongi.

"What I love about you — I mean, we're way beyond loving your voice — is you're never scared to tell everybody about your faith," American Idol judge Luke Bryan told Megan Danielle after she sang 'Go Rest High on That Mountain.'

Megan Danielle sang Lauren Daigle’s “Thank God I Do” after host Ryan Seacrest announced she had won America’s vote.

Seventeen-year-old Haven Madison, the daughter of Building 429 lead singer Jason Roy, recently stunned "American Idol" judges with an original song.

Twenty-one-year-old audio engineer Israel McFarland was a recent contestant on "American Idol," where he received some life advice from judge Katy Perry.

Preacher Tyler Allen brought America to tears with his rendition of “I Believe in You and Me,” a Four Tops song made popular by Whitney Houston, on American Idol’s 20th season premiere.

Hudson, who like the Franklins, is Baptist, talks about the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, some of her little-known history and different ways to sing “Amazing Grace.”

Contestant Kalifa Wilson, aka “Kai the Singer,” moved the American Idol judges to tears with her audition. She credits her church with supporting her as a musician and helping her make it to the show.