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“I’ll never forget this one time, I was singing for this record exec and I see, out of the corner of my eye, him writing down ‘no,'” she continued. “I was about to break into tears right there, so I just closed my eyes and kept on going and finished the audition. Turns out, what that note said was ‘now,’ sign her now.”<\/p>\n
“What a difference one letter can make,” Pearl concluded. “And, even after all these years, I think people still don’t know what I’m capable of\u2014until now. Being here, I’ve been able to come out of my shell and show my range.”<\/p>\n
After a rousing performance of KT Tunstall<\/strong>‘s “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,” Pearl was crowned as the winner, beating out Boogie Woogie, who was singer Andy Grammer<\/strong>, Coral, who was Zombies<\/em> actress Meg Donnelly<\/strong>, and Mad Scientist, who was unmasked as former Florida Georgia Line<\/strong> band member Brian Kelley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n So, who was the celebrity behind the bejeweled costume? Only Robin Thicke<\/a><\/strong> correctly guessed it\u00a0was country star Gretchen Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n