American Idol returned to our screens on Sunday evening and it wasn't long until a hopeful had the judges in tears.
Iam Tongi, 18, stood in front of the judges in Las Vegas in a bid to get a golden ticket for Hollywood - and left Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan reaching for the tissues with his beautiful rendition of Monsters by James Blunt.
It was a performance that tugged at the heartstrings after the Hawaiian native had opened up on the death of his father just months earlier.
