“American Idol” announced that it will host a three-hour episode on Easter night called “Songs of Faith.”
The worship episode airing on April 20 will feature performances by the top 20 contestants, plus 17-time Grammy Award-winner CeCe Winans, five-time Grammy Award-winner Brandon Lake, Grammy Award-nominated Jelly Roll, The Brown Four, and “American Idol” Season 22 Top 12 contestant Roman Collins.
Judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan will also perform during the episode.
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Although it has yet to be confirmed, it is likely that Lake and Jelly Roll will perform their version of Lake’s hit song “Hard Fought Hallelujah.”
So far in this season of “American Idol,” viewers have heard contestants sing songs by many Christian artists, including Lauren Daigle and Elevation Worship.
In fact, during the first episode of Hollywood Week, Baylee Littrell, who is the son of the Backstreet Boys’ Brian Littrell, sang an original Christian song, titled “Hey Jesus.” Littrell wrote the song after his grandmother’s death, and it helped him regain his faith in God.
Another faith-driven moment from this season was when 17-year-old aspiring preacher Canaan James Hill was awarded a platinum ticket after wowing the judges by singing Earnest Pugh’s “I Need Your Glory.”
Jelly Roll, who is this season’s artist in residence, recently shared that he hopes his next single will be “Hard Fought Hallelujah.”
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“I just feel like to not do everything I can to get that song in front of as many people as it can possibly be heard by is the wrong thing to do right now, even if I have to sacrifice my own single,” Jelly Roll told Audacy’s Katie Neal last month.
Jelly Roll explained that if one of his own singles is “going to get in the way of what ‘Hard Fought Hallelujah’ and what God’s doing with that song right now, and what I think country radio could do with that song, I’m going to vote towards ‘Hard Fought Hallelujah.’”
Correction: This article has been updated to correct a misspelling of Baylee Littrell’s name.
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