Home video of 'Idol' hopeful captures magic in falsetto

By Lee Cataluna

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 11, 2012

~~<p>American Idol" contestant Deandre Kamele Brackensick, the California teen with deep roots in Hawaiian music, appears in a video on YouTube that has fans rapturous.</p>
<p>In a setting so different from the laser lights and fog machines of the "American Idol" stage, Brackensick stands in a family's small living room, a cluttered china hutch as his backdrop, as he sings to a baby girl and her parents. He accompanies himself on the ukulele while singing "I Kona," a place-name song known as one of the most challenging in the genre of Hawaiian falsetto singing.</p>
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American Idol" contestant Deandre Kamele Brackensick, the California teen with deep roots in Hawaiian music, appears in a video on YouTube that has fans rapturous.

In a setting so different from the laser lights and fog machines of the "American Idol" stage, Brackensick stands in a family's small living room, a cluttered china hutch as his backdrop, as he sings to a baby girl and her parents. He accompanies himself on the ukulele while singing "I Kona," a place-name song known as one of the most challenging in the genre of Hawaiian falsetto singing. Login for more...