“American Idol” is where talent from low places gets a chance to shine on stage in front of millions of audience members—not to mention star judges. Nineteen-year-old Texan Colby Swift’s boots tell tales about where he comes from.
The young man who had never sang in front of a large audience in his life (let alone in Hollywood) says he can’t “sing like everybody else. I’m me, I’m Colby Swift. I ain’t tryin’ to be like anybody else.”
