Grammy Award 勝利者 and American Idol contestant Mandisa dies at the age of 47

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Grammy?Award-winning singer and former American Idol contestant Mandisa Lynn Hundley, known professionally as Mandisa, has died at the age of 47.?

The singer competed on the fifth season of the popular talent show, finishing in ninth place. After that, she went on to have a celebrated career in Christian music.?

A 声明 解放（する）d on Mandisa's Facebook page, 明らかにする／漏らすd that she was 設立する dead in her home on April 18. Her 原因（となる） of death is unknown.?

'Mandisa was a 発言する／表明する of 激励 and truth to people 直面するing life’s challenges all around the world.' The 地位，任命する 結論するd with some of her own lyrics.?

'I'm already home/You've got to lay it 負かす／撃墜する/'原因（となる） Jesus 持つ／拘留するs me now - And I am not alone.'??

In a 2017 interview with ABC News, Mandisa opened up about her struggles with 不景気, sayi ng that she 熟視する／熟考するd 自殺.??

'Even more than her music, the Platinum-selling singer will forever be known for her 抱擁する heart and 誠実,' Christian 無線で通信する 駅／配置する K-Love said in a 声明 around Mandisa's death?

The singer competed on the fifth season of the show (pictured), finishing in ninth place. After that, she went on to have a celebrated career in Christian music

In 2012, the gospel singer 明らかにする／漏らすd she had lost 100lbs after 裁判官 Simon Cowell made a cruel jibe about her 負わせる, asking if they 'had a bigger 行う／開催する／段階 this year' during her audition?

'Even more than her music, the Platinum-selling singer will forever be known for her 抱擁する heart and 誠実,' Christian 無線で通信する 駅／配置する K-Love?said in a 声明 発表するing her passing.?

'Mandisa loved Jesus, and she used her 異常に 広範囲にわたる 壇・綱領・公約 to talk about Him at every turn. Her 親切 was epic, her smile electric, her 発言する／表明する 大規模な, but it was no match for the size of her heart,' the 駅／配置する's マスコミ officer, David Pierce said.

'Mandisa struggled, and she was 攻撃を受けやすい enough to 株 that with us, which helped us talk about our own struggles.'

Mandisa was a native of Citrus 高さs,?California, and 熟考する／考慮するd 声の jazz at American River College in Sacramento and music at Fisk University in Tennessee.?

Her debut album, True Beauty, was 解放（する）d in 2007, it was her 2013 album Overcomer which won a Grammy for Best 同時代の Christian Music Album and helped to 推進する her into 存在 one of the biggest Christian music 星／主役にするs in the country.??

The singer auditioned for American Idol in 2005, 特記する／引用するing her musical 影響（力）s as 存在 everything from Def Leppard to Whitney Houston.?

During her first 外見 on the show, 裁判官 Simon Cowell made several jokes about her 負わせる 説: 'Do we have a bigger 行う／開催する／段階 this year?'?

When fellow host Paula Abdul said that Mandisa's 発言する／表明する sounded 'French,' Cowell jumped in and said that a more appropriate comparison would be to the entire country of フラン.?

The joke 誘発するd （民事の）告訴s from the 国家の 協会 to 前進する Fat 受託.?

Later in the season, Mandisa finally 答える／応じるd to Cowell.

'What I want to say to you is that, yes, you 傷つける me and I cried and it was painful, it really was. But I want you to know that I've forgiven you and that you don't need someone to わびる ーするために 許す somebody,' she said.

I 人物／姿／数字 that if Jesus could die so that all of my wrongs could be forgiven, I can certainly 延長する that same grace to you.'

Cowell わびるd and said he was 'humbled' by her words.?

In 2012, Mandisa 明らかにする／漏らすd that she had lost a staggering 100 続けざまに猛撃するs in the six years since her 外見 on the show, with the starlet 明らかにする／漏らすing that she had 雇うd a personal trainer and taken up popular dance workout Zumba in the wake of Cowell's 'hurtful and mean' comments.?

Mandisa's debut album, True Beauty, was 解放（する）d in 2007. Her 2013 album Overcomer won a Grammy for Best 同時代の Christian Music Album

In 2017, Mandisa went public about her 戦う／戦い with 不景気 and how she had experienced suicidal thoughts?

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In 2012, Mandisa 明らかにする／漏らすd that she had lost a staggering 100 続けざまに猛撃するs in the six years since her 外見 on the show (seen left on the show and 権利 in 2012)

Mandisa credited God with helping her through a 厳しい 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 of 不景気 when she lost her dear friend, Kisha, to breast 癌.?

'It got pretty bad - to the point where if I had not gotten off that road I would not be sitting here today,' she candidly 明らかにする／漏らすd in an interview with Good Morning America.?

'I was this の近くに to listening to that 発言する／表明する that told me, "You can be wih Jesus 権利 now, Mandisa. All you have to do is take your life.'?

'It almost happened. But God is what I saw. He saved my life やめる literally.

'I’ve never been the type of person that shakes my 握りこぶし and yells at God.?I’m the 肉親，親類d of person that shuts 負かす／撃墜する,' she went on.?

In the same interview, Mandisa said that she turned to eating まっただ中に her 不景気.?

'[Emotional eating] is what I have done my entire life.?After losing 120 続けざまに猛撃するs, which I talked about my first time here, I 伸び（る）d it all 支援する and 75 more. I sunk into the deepest 不景気 of my life after Kisha passed.'

The singer went on to say that it she only began to take 所有権 of her 問題／発行するs when a group of friends 直面するd her as she left a movie theater.?

'I （機の）カム out of the movie theater, this was after years of me 存在 in that dark place and ignoring everybody, and I noticed that my car had a bunch of sticky 公式文書，認めるs all over it,' she said.?

From there, her friends 行う／開催する／段階d an 介入.?

'I realized I don’t have to be perfect and have it all together.?I am a masterpiece in the making, I’m just unfinished for 権利 now.'

Mandisa pictured in 2006 around the time of her run on American Idol??

Mandisa spoke about the Cowell 出来事/事件 once again in October 2022 during an interview with the Christian Broadcasting 網状組織?述べるing it as her 'worst 恐れる come true.'

'It’s been the biggest struggle of my life and because it’s something I feel so 攻撃を受けやすい about. For him to have said that and for it to 空気／公表する on 国家の television -- I was 荒廃させるd.'

'After the show was over, just a bunch of my friends gathered around me and they began to pray for me. They began to pray for Simon. They asked the Lord to have mercy on him, and they began to ask the Lord to help me to 許す Simon.'

'I realized in that moment that this was about so much more than me and my 傷つける feelings,' she said.???

The singer 明らかにする／漏らすd that the 状況／情勢 was 始める，決める up by 生産者s who 警告するd her that Cowell would make 言及／関連 to her 負わせる and that she should 'tell him off.'?

In the same interview, Mandisa also discussed her しつけ, 説 that her father left the family at a young age. She said it was that abandonment that first led her to use food for 慰安.?

The hitmaker went on to say that her father drew her to 成し遂げるing.?

'I started feeling like I had to 成し遂げる ーするために 令状 his love. At that point I think I started 格闘するing with feelings of abandonment and -- not having a father 人物／姿／数字 in my life -- he is still a very big part of my life, just not 権利 there with me,' she said.?

Mandisa and the 残り／休憩（する） of the 事例／患者 of American Idol pictured in the Oval Office in July 2006?

In the shocking CBN interview, Mandisa also dropped the bombshell that when she was 16 years old, she was 強姦d.?

'When that happened at 16, it was like a floodgate opened. I started to eat and eat and eat. I think I was sort of 保護物，者ing myself off from anybody else that could 害（を与える） me.'

The singer said that she has been able to 許す her 攻撃者.??

KTIS 無線で通信する host Keith Stevens paid 尊敬の印 to Mandisa calling her a 'major 影響（力）' on his life.

'I am 深く，強烈に saddened to 株 with you that Christian Artist Mandisa has passed away at her home in Nashville. She was a major 影響（力） in my life and yours, and all of us at KTIS. She 成し遂げるd at so many KTIS events and perhaps you were there,' he said.?

'Today, our lives feel this 広大な／多数の／重要な loss. Please pray for her family. We love you Mandisa. Thank you for blessing our lives and 向こうずねing the light of Jesus in everything you did,' he went on.??