Matt Giraud Song ‘My Funny Valentine’ on American Idol (video)

matt-giraud-song-my-funny-valentine-on-american-idol-video Matt Giraud is an another who gets some love for the ‘My Funny Valentine’ on american idol. Matthew Scott Giraud is a dueling piano player and a finalist on the eighth season of the reality television series American Idol from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was born in Dearborn, Michigan, but was raised in Ypsilanti and graduated Lincoln High School in 2003. He plays at clubs in Kalamazoo, where he also graduated from Western Michigan University. He released an album called Perspective in 2003 and another in 2006 called Mind Body and Soul. Is he best as Adam Lambert and Allison Iraheta?

Matt Giraud says he’s been waiting for this week all year. “I love jazz, I studied it in college.” He got a B.
Jamie Foxx advises Matt to lower the key to the song: “I guarantee you this: If he changes the key and sings this in his full voice, he might end the night Number One.”

The hatted Matt starts the song on a stool, enunciating very clearly, but he begins playing with the melody fairly quickly. His runs are near flawless, but the notes he has to hold give him a little trouble. The full-voice thing works — the audience rises to its feet, just as Jamie predicted. One run in his falsetto range, and Matt’s done.

He gets a standing ovation, but the judges aren’t as hot for it. Randy says the song’s one of the hardest to sing ever, but it didn’t quite come together for him. Kara say she can appreciate the runs and the different things he did with the song, but she didn’t feel Matt was emotionally connected to it. Paula’s glad Matt took Jamie’s advice: “It was pure, simple and really impressive.” Simon disagrees, not with Paula, but with Randy. For Simon, “it was the only believable, authentic I’ve heard tonight.” He heard Nat King Cole-type phrasing and thought Matt was absolutely brilliant.

Matt Giraud Song ‘My Funny Valentine’ on American Idol (video)

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