Happy Birthday Siobhan Magnus! – VIDEO

By On 03/15/2010 · 41 Comments · In AI Season 9, American Idol, Siobhan Magnus

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Siobhan Magnus turns 20 today. Not that she’ll have much time to celebrate it, as she rehearses her performance of “Paint it Black” for Tuesday’s Rolling Stones-themed Top 12 episode.

For an idea of how Siobhan might handle “Paint it Black” check out her performance of Ten Years After’s trippy “I’d Love to Change The World” after the jump. And for a completely different side of Siobhan, watch her perform in a couple of her high school musicals…

Videos after the JUMP…

I’d Love to Change the World

Siobhan at Barnstable High

Siobhan at Barnstable High

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  • Muzic2luv

    My favorite contestant of the season, and this just proves why! Love this girl! Thanks for posting the vids that prove the range and style this talent is capable of (apologies for ending on a preposition)!

  • sr4mjc

    When does Master Class Lady start her analysis? Top 12? Siobhan has a lovely trained voice. Pirates is a tough show for a high school to take on. I’m sure her voice has only matured since then.

    She’s my overall pick, I hope she chooses some interesting stuff.

    What’s interesting is she did musicals so obviously had to learn some dialog, yet her conversational speech pattern is so, um unique!

    Lol. She’s not screaming, I hear fully supported notes. Yes, they are high. But it’s no Scream On.

  • revcat

    I like Siobahn a lot. I think Simon is pimping Crystal, but I don’t connect with her. I think playing an instrument is cool but unless you can really rip it up like Orianthi or Matt G. not that impressive to me. As for those who wonder why Siobahn isn’t singing on Idol like she did in her high school musicals, anything deemed “Broadway” is the kiss of death. That being said she kind of reminds me of the lead on Glee who had huge roles on Broadway, Spring Awakening for one. At this moment my mind is drawing a blank; can’t remember her name. I think she could very well be a contender but I don’t think she will win.

  • whatever4444

    Happy birthday Siobhan. This girl has to win!! She has it all. The looks, voice, personality. She is adorable!

  • Muzic2luv

    Revcat – it is Lea Michele as Wendla Bergman in “Spring Awakening.”

  • JudyOhio

    Her voice sounds operatic to me. I wonder if she has had any formal training. Her explaination of hitting the high note on “Think” was that she learned it from Kelly and first hit it in the shower……well, I don’t think I believe that now, lol. I think these notes are coming either natural to her (raw talent) or she has had tons of vocal training.

  • Yui

    ^shes come from a very poor family. has to look after her siblings because her dad has some sort of disability or something. It was in a wb documentary featured here a while ago.

    so i doubt shes had the money for lots of vocal training. no doubt raw talent. her father is also a singer and her uncle was in a band i believe.

  • whatever4444

    ^shes come from a very poor family. has to look after her siblings because her dad has some sort of disability or something. It was in a wb documentary featured here a while ago.

    so i doubt shes had the money for lots of vocal training. no doubt raw talent. her father is also a singer and her uncle was in a band i believe.

    Yeah I doubt she had any vocal training. It seems like her life has been pretty hard at a very young age. Wonder why the producers are not pimping her story.
    This is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd-7j7YY9Tg

  • Grammie Kari

    Give Siobhan a couple more weeks to let loose. She’ll do just fine and more. I ahve also picked her for the win with a Finale featuring her and Crystal.

    Lucy, thank you for mentioning Linda Ronstadt. That’s who I was thinking of. Perfect comparison.

    sr4mjc, Masterclass Lady will be filling us in with her wisdom and critique this week!

  • http://myspace.com/morganmadelynne marymagdalene

    Siobhan singing Gilbert & Sullivan?!? OMG!!!! That just raised my appreciation of her talent thousand-fold! Being able to sing G & S is indeed a talent.

    The “Patter” songs of Gilbert & Sullivan are INCREDIBLE! They are virtual tongue-twisters, which start out slow, and speed up as the song continues on. The role of ‘Mabel’ does not have one in “Pirates” but Mabel’s father, the Major-General does, and it is one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous ones, “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSloW2coCDQ

  • martha

    She is a very good singer, as well is Crystal, so I hope there is a tie, -ha, it won’t happen.

  • JudyOhio

    Thank you so much for linking that video whatever4444. The more I hear/see of her, the more I like her as a person. I’m surprised AI hasn’t used some of her backstory also, rather than giving us the idea she’s goofy and such. Maybe AI didn’t give us that idea, but the blogs are tending to paint her that way. She appears to be a pretty smart cookie with a lot of responsibility (especially with the siblings).

  • cookcricket

    I love her raw, unaffected talent. Siobhan can hit the notes of a diva, but does not have a personality of a diva. She is quirky and refreshing as a person.

    I hope the finale comes down to Siobhan and Crystal at this point. I don’t care who wins.

    Crystal’s style is what I like and I know I would buy her album now and attend a concert now, but Siobhan is definitely growing on me. I believe her “House of the Rising Sun” last week was an entire moment regardless of what Simon says.

    Happy Birthday Siobhan!!!

    Also, I do wish the vocals would have been louder on “I Can Change the World”, but from what I could tell, she did goooooood! I can see her moving around the stage a lot more this week, since she already did two weeks ago.

  • mikeyb

    Are you kidding me? Listen to the first musical youtube vid posted here. No one sings like that without vocal training, and I mean no one. The phrasing, the control of tone, the vibrato. I’m not suggesting she’s some child of privilege, but she’s had formal vocal training all right. (And good for her, I think she’s a great singer.)

  • justjude

    Well, well,well! My instincts were bang on, Yayyyyy!!! By her second audition number, I figured this girl was going to uncoil from her chrysalis,and that she was going to take us on a journey.By the time I heard her pure vocals on HOTRS, I was sure of it.
    And who said Idol would ‘never be as exciting’ after Adam (who is
    fabulously exciting still).
    I think Simon has just been playing with us!!!!!,or he is has
    univision!
    I,too, do not care if Siobhan wins, or if Crystle wins,because she
    wins just by existing within the context of everything that has
    hammered this bit of musical gold into this piece of human art.
    Happy birthday picean Siobhan Magnus!!!
    This is Your Life….Begin your journey that you have been preparing for all your life!

    Quite possible her father has partially trained her if he was trained??.
    My own Mother was trained for years, for free, as such as a small
    city can offer. She sang for a couple years, popular music, locally
    before meeting my father, who never even provided her with a piano!

  • LoveRollercoaster

    Did someone say “Paint It Black?

    Listen/watch Grace Potter and the Nocturnals knock that one out of the park.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1CawPrjm1I

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