Jorge Nunez was the American Idol finalist from Puerto Rico with the sweet spirit that the judges- and many fans- fell in love with. But after a lackluster performance last Tuesday night of the Michael Jackson song “Never Can Say Goodbye“, Jorge was sent home in the first results show of the season.He blamed the cultural barrier between his roots and the show for his early departure.

“We have our own culture there with a sense of music in Spanish and my biggest challenge until now was picking songs for the show in the sense of it’s not the kind of music that I’m used to singing,” he told reporters during a Thursday conference call.  “That was the biggest challenge, but I think I did a good job.”

“It’s something that is really logical.  My first language is Spanish, so basically, when I’m going to do my best in singing and in emoting what I sing and passing on emotions to people is going to be my own language,” he explained.  “To me it wasn’t a disadvantage.  It just meant that I needed to work harder and I don’t feel like it was something that affected me because I worked really hard and I think I did a great job.”

It’s probably good for him that he got cut when he did- this week is country week on Idol, which would have been very rough on poor Jorge.

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