American Idol Contestant: I Love Coming Home to Kinnelon
Elise Testone said she practiced singing in borough's natural surroundings.
She may be gracing a stage in Hollywood now as she compete's on FOX's hit singing show "American Idol," performing before three celebrity judges and an audience of millions, but while she was growing up in Kinnelon, Elise Testone was often performing for the trees. "I loved growing up in Kinnelon, I miss it so much," Testone said in an interview with Tri-Boro Patch Tuesday. "I was really into hiking and all the trails and lakes around the reservoir. I had some friends where we would hike and we would play guitar, kind of hippie-ish." Testone, a 2001 Kinnelon High School graduate, attended college at Coastal Carolina University and said she's lived in "the Carolinas" ever since. She is a professional musician and a vocal coach at a rock-and…
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Donna G
8:09 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
woot woot! Best wishes from another former Kinnelon resident! So thrilled for you! more ›