Brandy Neelly

The Battle for the Big O finale is coming up 7pm, Saturday, July 26th at Diamond Lake's Good Time Theatre and an American Idol grad has made our Top 12. Brandy Neelly, who goes to school at Western Kentucky University, just knocked our socks off at the Beaver Dam Park auditions. Check out her insane rendition of "He Loves to Make Me Cry."

In 2013, two former Battle for The Big O finalists made it deep into American Idol.  Owensboro's Jenny Beth Willis was one of the show's Top 20 girls.  And Paul Jolley, who was a finalist in our competition two years ago, made it all the way to the Idol Top 10 and spent the summer on tour with his fellow finalists.  This season, yet another contestant with ties to our annual talent competition is

American Idol star Paul Jolley competed in WBKR's Battle for The Big O then went on to make the show's Top Ten.  Jenny Beth Willis competed in the Battle and the next year made it all the way to Idol's Top 20 girls.  Now another Idol hopeful has found her way to us.  Check out Brandy Neelly, who showed up Saturday at Towne Square Mall for Day Three of our Battle auditions, and blasted her way into