Local Teen Idol Gets Massive Praise From Music Superstars

17-year-old Cohoes native Madison VanDenberg took the singing competition world by storm basically overnight, and left us without words.  Following the 17-year-old's  beautiful and pitch-perfect rendition of the song Speechless by Dan + Shay on Sunday night on American Idol, some of the industries biggest stars started singing her praise.  Madison, her friends and family, as well as the entire Capital Region woke up Monday morning to a feeling that she may be the next big thing to happen to music. Here's what the celebrity Twitter-verse had to say about the Shaker High student who is as humble and sweet as she is talented.

Madison is expected to appear again on the show in a few weeks, either Sunday March 24th or Monday March 25th.  Until then, let's relive her astonishing rehearsal and some tweets about her from very famous people!

Country Stars artists Dan + Shay tweeted this out moments after her performance: 

Maddie Poppe, winner of 2018's American Idol had this to say: 

Luke's the man...he tweeted this out: 

Katy Perry is the one who likened her to Kelly Clarkson and also added this: