M.K. Nobilette, First Openly Gay Idol Singer, Told "You Belong Here" After Touching Performance (VIDEO)

M.K. Nobilette gave the most moving performance of the night on Wednesday's "American Idol," the first live episode of the season.

The show's first openly gay contestant was one of ten female performers selected by the judges to sing and her emotional rendition on the ballad "All of Me" by John Legend made Jennifer Lopez visibly teary.

And the audience's reception was so avid, the judges couldn't even comment at first.

"It was the perfect song choice, it really was. There's a transparency in your vulnerability and your humanness," Keith Urban, 46, told her, adding:  "That was a really beautiful performance."

Lopez, 44, was quoted as saying: "Getting up there can be so daunting but at the end of the day it's just about making people feel something…It's so easy to pick the big singers, but then somebody comes and you realize that's not what it's about."

And Harry Connick Jr., who described Nobilette as an "elegant and articulate singer," claimed this was the first time he watched her perform without a "defeatist attitude."



"You belong here," Connick Jr., 46, told her.


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