(AUDIO) TRENT HARMON ALMOST STUCK TO WAITING TABLES BEFORE AMERICAN IDOL

Trent Harmon’s music career has taken off since he won the 15th and final season of American Idol, and it turns out, had a friend of his not convinced him to try out for the show, we may have never heard from him musically.  Trent says before Idol, “I was a musician, I gigged all the time, even nights that I had to work at the restaurant I’d close up the restaurant and go gig maybe like a 12 to 2:30 spot. And it just wasn’t paying off, you know, the restaurant made more sense and I was good at that and music was too much of a gamble.”

Thankfully Trent’s success on Idol made the gamble more feasible and now we’ve got his single, “There’s A Girl,” on the radio and a his debut album in the works.

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“I mean I was a musician, I gigged all the time, even nights that I had to work at the restaurant I’d close up the restaurant and go gig maybe like a 12 to 2:30 spot. And it just wasn’t paying off, you know, the restaurant made more sense and I was good at that and music was too much of a gamble.”