{"id":2447581,"date":"2019-08-15T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871989"},"modified":"2019-08-15T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:26:12","slug":"tori-kelly-shows-off-vocal-range-with-sorry-would-go-a-long-way-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/tori-kelly-shows-off-vocal-range-with-sorry-would-go-a-long-way-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Tori Kelly Shows Off Vocal Range With \u2018Sorry Would Go a Long Way\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-15-at-9.12.37-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tori-kelly\/\">Tori Kelly<\/a> made her mark on late-night Wednesday with her new song \u201cSorry Would Go a Long Way.\u201d Performing on <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/em> \u2013 her debut on the show \u2013&nbsp;the former&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/american-idol\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-idol\" data-tag=\"american-idol\">American Idol<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>contestant showed off her impressive vocal range and emotional candor through the heartbreaking track.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s third studio album,&nbsp;<em>Inspired by True Events<\/em>, was released last Friday. Following her appearance as a semi-finalist on&nbsp;<em>American Idol<\/em> in 2010, she released a string of EPs before her debut album, 2015\u2019s <em>Unbreakable Smile<\/em>, peaked at Number Two on the Billboard 200 chart. Her second album, 2018\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hiding Place<\/em>, was primarily a gospel record, but Kelly pivoted back to pop in 2019 with the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tori-kelly-change-your-mind-784411\/\">\u201cChange Your Mind\u201d<\/a> and the announcement of a U.S. tour.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/watch-tori-kelly-talk-fans-social-media-decade-in-music-business-160422\/\">sat down with&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> to discuss her rise to fame through social media. (Before&nbsp;<em>Idol<\/em>, she gained a modest fandom through her YouTube channel.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re that young, you\u2019re just going through the motions,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember thinking I was running out of time to do stuff. Any sort of rejection that I got hit so hard. It was all meant to happen because it shaped my career and who I\u2019ve become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tori-kelly-sorry-would-go-a-long-way-late-show-colbert-871989\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tori Kelly made her mark on late-night Wednesday with her new song \u201cSorry Would Go a Long Way.\u201d Performing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert \u2013 her debut on the show \u2013&nbsp;the former&nbsp;American Idol&nbsp;contestant showed off her impressive vocal range and emotional candor through the heartbreaking track. Kelly\u2019s third studio album,&nbsp;Inspired by True Events, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 07:15:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}