Lauren Alaina Suddeth performs on “American Idol” on March 30. (Contributed by Michael Becker/ Fox)Lauren Alaina Suddeth, a 16-year-old from Rossville, Ga., is among the eight contestants still alive on “American Idol” Season 10.
Voted off show Thursday night was Pia Toscano, of Howard Beach, N.Y., one of the judges’ favorites.
Meanwhile, Paul McDonald, the pleasantly quirky Nashville singer whose voice had been compared to a cross between Rod Stewart and Bob Dylan, also survived the weekly cut.
McDonald, whose mother Susan teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was in the bottom three on the show last week.
Suddeth sang Aretha Franklin’s “Natural Woman” on Wednesday, and McDonald charmed the audience with an up-tempo version of the Johnny Cash classic “Folsom Prison Blues.”