A Look Back at Mandisa’s 2006 Appearance on ‘American Idol’

[@ashleystar4773]

I've listened to her songs since I was almost a teenager. I almost wanted to cry when I found out this morning. R.I.P Mandisa your music has helped & inspired so many people.

[@arlenewilliams97]

😅😢😅😅😢😅😅😢iI

[@arlenewilliams97]

The😅😅kindly help yuy

[@budgerigarer]

You aren't going to talk about her music career at all? She had a decent one. She only got her start from American Idol.

[@deed2157]

It's in another video. before this one

[@turtlesnail9824]

They did yesterday.

[@keithmoore-r7h]

Man I don’t know what to say we lost a beautiful woman i never knew her personally my condolences to her family

[@eyeswideshut6004]

This hurts so much. 💔 Take your rest sis.

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

She was like my dream girl Of all the celebs I've ever fell in love with there was probably few if any as wholesome and pure as she was And she had the outer beauty to go with it. This is devastating

[@iamsomethingcauseimPABLO]

You did it Mandisa, you made it to heaven...

[@melindagraves5212]

Gone too soon....

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

Do we have a bigger coffin?

[@NJDJ1986]

Rest in Peace Ms Mandisa ✝️🕊️

[@melindagraves5212]

according to some news outlets, suicide may have played a role in her early demise. suicide, is a final decision for a temporary problem! the devil is a liar!

[@thatgirlPAIGE94]

May God bless her soul 🙏🏾🙏🏾🕊️

[@jenisarchibald4198]

I couldn’t believe I am shedding tears. She’s drag me out of a serious situation with OVERCOMER. She was always my go to songs in times of trouble and now she’ll be on my pc daily. May her soul rest in peace and rise in glory.

[@CocoAvalon]

Yes, Overcomer helped me too and many others.

[@journeymansmitty8283]

Never watch American Idol that much but her voice was amazing May her soul rest in peace🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@ashleystar4773]

I didn't know about her being on American Idol until I got into her music in my teen years. Was heartbroken when I found out.

[@shelynaemerald4676]

I've watched Mandisa since she had collaborated with Toby Mac from around 2009 or so and I honestly never noticed she was overweight? I don't think we saw her on American idol? Maybe we did? But my memory isn't so great sometimes. But in every music video she had, or ever was in, I never noticed she was overweight! I always thought she was trim and a good figure. But I guess when someone has so much energy and life and so vibrant all the time, with a big voice, it wouldn't show. And I think they dressed her pretty well and the way they set the camera angle so she looked like a regular sized woman. Whoever directed and produced her videos was really sweet about that!

[@ameliac504]

Me neither

[@mamuklutze6474]

Yes whoever did the videos did a good job in a way that you only saw her beautiful voice and energy her beautiful face and a nice angle of her. I just loved Mandisa I wish I had been to a concert of her live. RIP beautiful sister🙏🏽

[@gillianlowe540]

Exactly 💯

[@pepsidude8919]

R.I.P. Mandisa

[@TheFacelessTraveller]

Grace is free. It’s something that you don’t need to pay for or spend millions on, despite your current financial situation. I hope Simon has learned that over the years. RIP Queen ❤

[@kimberlynelson4200]

Mandisa was my favorite on Idol when she was a contestant. She was a strong beautiful woman and had an angels voice. I was lucky enough to see her live twice, once at winter jam at mckenzie arena in Chattanooga Tn and the other with The News Boys at The Tivoli Theatre also in Chattanooga and it was AMAZING. I cried when the news came up on my phone yesterday and didn’t want it to be true. She is going to be a beautiful angel looking out for us from Heaven now and singing to the other angels with that beautiful voice of hers now. LOVE YOU MANDISA NOW AND FOREVER!!!! REST IN PEACE BEAUTIFUL ANGEL!!!!

[@SimonGonzales-t8c]

God bless her

[@amethystAnge7]

Not ok it looks like she tried working on herself. Obesity is no joking matter. It’s like a drug addiction. It’s hard to be without help and I don’t get the whole people against using Ozempic if it’s helping the obesity community good for them we all need a little happiness in our lives because life is too short, judging one another and putting another down, it should be the other way around

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

She was so unbelievably beautiful This is devastating I was like in love with her. Or i could have ended up being so if i had paid a whole lot of attention to her. But man she was beautiful

[@mandypandy6433]

She was so beautiful. Rest in peace beautiful lady.

[@KakashiHatake-ge8ve]

RIP

[@DianaYanez-us9ir]

May Mandisa rest in peace 🙏

[@Flying7DroneService]

Why did you edit out the part where she talked about the Lord?

[@SoraFan23]

I never liked American Idol. Felt like everyone was just being too judgemental

[@empressgalaxia5664]

😢😭

[@kyleh789]

Listened to her for the first time when I was 19

[@tangiechapman6219]

He didn’t make fun of Jennifer Hudson and she was big too

[@eunicerogers618]

Mandisa keep singing………..❤

[@kathyc00per2]

Mandisa was a Christian artist. Her songs blessed a lot of people. Mandisa was a very beautiful soul inside and out. She will be greatly missed. She is praising our Lord Jesus kneeling before the king of kings and Lord of lords.

[@sorayawatkins3626]

God bless we lost someone so beautiful and special

[@Haystack11]

She has so much Class , GODSPEED HEALING Prayers for her loved ones

[@TropicalHonduranDominican]

She died of heart failure after regaining all of her weight

[@veronicaz2612]

Rest in peace, heaven just gained a beautiful Angel.

[@alexandraanderson3988]

I'm glad she had someone like Paula who had her back on the show 😂😅😊😊❤ she would literally beat Simon up everytime he talked smack about her lmaoo I love her

[@misshoneynevercame4832]

Not Simon looking all buttery making fun of someone else...... 😮

[@GraceandGrowthjourney7]

So we're not gonna talk about how she let herself go into a real deep depression after her best friend died. And a depression she couldn't shake and it caused her to eat more and become even more overweight. Her cause of death was obesity complications, so sad. Lord thank you for the talent you bestowed upon her ,so that she was able to share her beautiful voice and music to the world for your glory Jesus, Amen. You made it home sister 🙌🏼🙏🏼.

[@DeniSoars]

This shatters my heart in a different way. I cannot imagine the pain of her family, her parents, her friends. When someone passes, people say generic kind things: but Mandisa was truly a light in this dark world. It’s hard to comprehend what she may have been going through, but we know she’s with the Father now. Rest in peace angel 🕊️

[@scottchambers7087]

I saw a G. I've seen it all. Dope describes my rhymes, making all you emcees cold drop like dimes. You know MCSC is back again, and battling me on the microphone is like committing a sin. Scott/MCSC

[@Hans-sg5rg]

She should have won that season. It was crazy when she got eliminated.

[@VanTran-wl4xn]

*Rest in peace Mandisa* 😢🕊️🙏🏽

[@jesuslovedus]

What a bully he was or is.

[@LiveHonorably-jc8hk]

I saw her at a Christian concert

[@alieudarboe5408]

May her soul Rest In Heaven!

[@JoseMartinez-vm1ib]

Simon contributed to it

[@jonathanz5169]

Rest in peace 😭 condolences to the family 🙏

[@ceya733]

Depression books to read or watch " Battlefeild field of the mind" by joyce Meyer , it deals with the mjnd, thoughts suicidal thoughts & how JAH Led her out of depression, she has this book in kid, teen adult version!!!!...... Mannn wished yall had played some of Mandisa Christians hits song..

[@enjoliturner4179]

my heart is so sad... you ran your race girl. give Yeshua a hug for me.

[@dec23]

I don't understand how people can hurt others with their words and belittle them- that's some Satan's work.

[@themagickalmermaid]

'AS FANTASIA SHINES BEHIND HER' Rest In Peace Mandisa!

[@vidhoard]

What??? No. :( I had no idea.

[@addicted367]

How sad I wonder what happened to her?

[@jacobisworld9516]

I loved her

[@kathyc00per2]

Just watched mandisa funeral. Her dad said mandisa had fallen and couldnt get to her phone. God took mandisa home. She is prasing our lord and savior Jesus christ the king of kings and lord of lords.

[@ShenitaMoore]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@Pistons2024]

Sadness 😢

[@ruthquetant7375]

🥺💔‼

[@royserunkuma118]

Sleep well dear one

[@tfozo]

she should have seen his old face.

[@niamoses1994]

😢💔♥️

[@tonicsmith44]

❤😢🙏🏾

[@pepsidude8919]

I know this might seem off-topic, but in case if anyone may be wondering, I actually have some questions about some things in mind in case if anyone happens to know the answers to them since this is just something I've been dealing with now for the past several months unfortunately. 1. My e-mail account hasn't been hacked or anything, but a while back I noticed that my e-mail account/address has started receiving various spam e-mails and this has been an ongoing problem for me since this has been happening almost every day for the past several months. What exactly causes this to happen? 2. I might have also accidentally responded to a spam e-mail or two from before even though I didn't mean to do so, and it seems like ever since then, my e-mail account has just been receiving even more spam mail that way. What exactly causes that to happen too and why? 3. Is there also some possible way to completely stop the spam mail altogether or not? I've been reporting the e-mails, deleting them, blocking them, and even blocking the e-mail addresses and domains where the e-mails have been coming from, but it seems like no matter what I've been trying to do, nothing seems to be stopping it so far and I sometimes even receive some spam e-mails somehow from certain senders even though I already have their e-mail addresses blocked although they shouldn't be going through to me if I already have them blocked. I just thought of asking these questions though in case if anyone knows the answers to them and I know this is kind of off-topic and all, but this is just something that I've been having to deal with now for quite some time and it's just really aggravating too although I wish it would somehow stop. I just want to know why and how this sort of thing happens, and also if there's a way to possibly stop it somehow.

[@matthewvogel3071]

I loved Mandisa

[@m_ianO]

😢

[@eeriejig1522]

Who?

[@zhanetagadimyan8088]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@alejandroguevara2212]

I only ate one a day and that worked but u it really does mess you up

[@bid84]

Heh?

[@alejandroguevara2212]

@@bid84 what confuses you

[@wasimqader]

Americans!!

[@saraswinerton7202]

What

[@AnonemesisRecords]

What's crazy is if she listened to Symon she would still be alive.

[@deed2157]

We don't know what she died from. She was dealing with depression so for all we know she could have offed herself. Plus she struggled with her weight so it's not like she wasn't actively trying to lose weight

[@Simply_Teenahx]

She literally did. She lost a ton of weight

[@kinglord7707]

Illuminati sacrifice confirmed

[@jonniemozingo9418]

Stop!!! Don't even go there about Mandisa!!! She loved the Lord and sang for Him!!!

[@kinglord7707]

@@jonniemozingo9418 Lord could also mean Satan too if you want fame or success the devil will give it to you but with a price

[@alexandraanderson3988]

​@@kinglord7707If that's so then why would she go on American idol and preach the name of God there 🙏🙏🙏 I've never seen that and it probably made a lot of people uncomfortable 😣 but she didn't have to but she it anyway without a care in the world with a smile on her face now everybody seems to be following her footsteps bringing the name of God and on stage with them with x factor and everything the voice etc

[@CoryKenshinFan2012]

Shes well and alive! Bull!

[@HurricanePatrick]

it's too bad she never lost weight, stay thin ppl, you'll live longer

[@deed2157]

Being thin doesn't equal healthy. I just went to a funeral of a man who was fit but had high blood pressure for years. He never wanted to take medication for it. He passed from a heart attack

[@kimberlynelson4200]

@@deed2157YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH. BEING SLIM DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN HEALTHY.

[@MsDudette21]

​@kimberlynelson4200 yeah but being thin won't kill u like being obese will unless you're anorexic. Ppl sre dying way more from obesity than anorexia so I'm sure what's more of an issue here

[@kimberlynelson4200]

⁠@@MsDudette21I have lost several friends that were not overweight so I know better than that. Before you ask no they were not anorexic.

[@michaelamitchell1603]

so insensitive wtf.

[@XavierClark-ld9vr]

What Simon said was hilarious

[@michunt666]

She was kind of flat and everyone sings this song for their audition.

[@moblith3952]

RIP