Career
She is the first finalist to be openly gay going into the top contestants round, and the only openly gay female to compete in the finals. She did not appear in the American Idol 2014 Finale due to feeling ill at the time. She cited her earliest musical influence as The Little Mermaid, and more recently soul singer and musician Allen Stone.
2014-present: American Idol
Nobilette was one of 75,000 contestants to audition for the thirteenth season of American Idol.
She sang for the initial cattle call judges at San Francisco"s American Telephone & Telegraph Company Park in July 2013 along with approximately 1,000 other hopefuls. She became one of the top 13 finalists in February 2014.
She has been praised for her "vocal ability and likable demeanor" as well as her "soulful rasp."
When flown in to Hollywood for the next rounds of the competition, Nobilette was one of many contestants who had to "sing for their lives" in a special "Hollywood or Home" round to see if they would go through right there, or be put back on the plane. Contestants were eliminated soon after they landed at LAX airport before they would get to proceed to Hollywood.
The celebrity judges, Harry Connick Junior., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban, were uncertain of 52 contestants, each was asked to perform solo in an airplane hangar, with 32 ultimately sent back to the airport.
Although the judges showed support, and generally praised her, Nobilette was in the bottom rankings with the public votes in the first weeks of the combined men and women shows. In the Top 13 and Top 12 shows she was among the bottom three. Foreign the Top 11 week, "Songs from the Cinema," the results of which would determine the top ten finalists, who would be included on the annual American Idols Live! Tour 2014, Nobilette performed "Make You Feel My Love." Two covers of the song, one each from Garth Brooks, and Trisha Yearwood, were featured on the soundtrack of the film Hope Floats (1998).
The original was by Bob Dylan, and Nobilette stated she performed the song in a recital during her time in high school, and loved most of the covers of the song.
In the fall of 2014, it was reported that Nobilette signed a record deal with Velvet Rhythm Entertainment, a San Francisco based label. Her debut single "Make Believe" was released on May 12, 2015.
= Performances and results.
