In the past few years, there has been a pattern in American Idol winners…and that pattern shows a distinct lack of diversity.
Except for the season 12 winner, Candice Glover, the majority of the previous winners have been white males. So when E! News sat down with American Idol judges Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban, we had to ask…do the judges take diversity into account when voting on the Fox singing competition series?
“The best person takes it, the person who’s really ready and can go the distance,” Urban tells E! News. “At the end of the day, for me, it keeps coming down to that.”
“Of course you have to consider diversity, because the people watching this show are diverse,” Connick tells E! News. “As many genres as we can have represented that are appropriate to American Idol—like we had some opera singers come in and I don’t think it’s the right venue for opera—but we need to see R&B singers, we need to see country singers, we need to see ‘coffeehouse’ whatever.”
