Cleveland’s Vincent Fondale Competes On “American Idol”

Twenty-one years ago, a five-year-old Vincent Fondale stepped onstage and grabbed the microphone to sing with his father’s band Cleveland Nostalgia.

“We’re gonna bring a guest singer up right now. All 5 years old, right?” an announcer said in a home video that Fondale shared to social media. “In about 2025, American Idol contestant, probably winner: Ladies and gentlemen, Vinnie Vincent Fondale.”

“It was one year off,” Fondale notes about the prediction, “but close enough.”…

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