Pia Toscano - "River Deep, Mountain High" - American Idol Season 10 - 4/6/11

Pia Toscano performed Ike & Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" on the Top 9 night of American Idol Season 10 on April 6, 2011. Visit www.piaparadise.com for all the latest Pia Toscano news, information and performances.

[@karleondodson4051]

Its nearly 2022 and this performance is still playing in my head

[@matt36755]

Same and now nearly 2023 🫠

[@marinotagliapietra7839]

why do other singers even attempt it,

[@randytenn]

I loved her version. A shame she didn’t win.

[@jayrashad2800]

One of the best performances of this song and on American Idol.

[@Lacsmreqtpario]

You forget about the performance on glee by Santana and Mercedes?

[@sonnychauhan1447]

its a shame she got eliminated after this

[@zacheryspencer]

One of my all time favorite performances ever on American Idol! Love Pia:) She should have won:) 🙋🏼✨🎼

[@faliqhamzah4284]

This season has the best line up of contestants.

[@lexsoft3969]

Yeah.. filled with uniquely interesting characters. Yesterday, I watched a compilation video on all of Paul McDonald's performances. That's entertaining.

[@sonnychauhan1447]

seasons 5 and 11 had a better lineup

[@christopherolvera2264]

She sounds amazing as always but I love how she was so adamant about being a performer and yet she didn’t really do much anything but it doesn’t matter because she sings phenomenally

[@adellepichardo]

I will never forget this interpretation. Just AMAZING!!!

[@MJ-qt1ml]

My favorite song of all time🧡🧡🧡🧡

[@martinjholdcroft8652]

Just Stunning.. You Keep Getting Better & Better.. Pia You Are World Class,I Love Seeing Where People Started... Best Wishe's From Martin in The Heart Of England 💖💖 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[@texaspoontappa9653]

Almost a decade later and still one of the best performances of this song!! ❤️

[@buntaskunta]

Look up Adrienne Warren performing this song.....

[@k.c.elemenopy2393]

Celine dion in 1994 on letterman.

[@gamersanonymous4me131]

its really tough to do a cover of someone who is so special as Tina Turner was. No one will ever compare IMHO. This is really well done and beats the celine dion letterman version IMHO. Tinas Phil Specter version was unforgettable though.

[@marvinstauffer1390]

Love this performance, one of the best ever

[@adamg1234]

This song suits her so so well

[@debbiemaslanka1588]

One of my favourite songs

[@videodump2774]

I was 8 back then and I cried so much when she got voted off

[@dodymunawar2488]

beautiful & power voice

[@sirmayse1545]

I refused to watch American Idol anymore after she lost. She has a beautiful voice

[@tributariachile8107]

VINO AL FESTIVAL DE VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE, TRIUNFÓ Y SE HARÁ FAMOSA MUNDIALMENTE.

[@princeblue92]

Great force love it 💙👍

[@johanschoeman8732]

Beautiful - this girl can SING!

[@deb5710]

Not bad. Just keep in mind Tina Turner was doing killer dance moves while performing this back in the 1960's, which is still incredible to this day!

[@rac6751]

Which I think was the reason why Pia got eliminated. They asked for a performance in which Pia will command the stage, show her dance moves, since she's been singing ballads from week after week, and yet she's just walking from one place to another 😅

[@ivanarriagadasanchez2105]

Pia Toscano estuvo este año en el festival de viña con Andrea Bocceli una voz increíble para una canción muy difícil...felicitaciones para ella...desde chile.

[@dreowen78]

Beautiful

[@Javier_Jimenez71]

I see this and I get mad. Such power and control and the viewers made the wrong decision.

[@KennyVert]

Such… a… star.

[@alainabarril7181]

Definition of badass!

[@VegasShaken]

12 years later! Scotty who? Pia is performing with David Foster and Andrea Bocelli. Proves you don't have to win AI to be successful 😉😍

[@Tasha9315]

I was shocked that she was eliminated that quickly and that too after this performance. My favorite that season was Scotty who won, but Pia was on top on my list of favs too. Too bad the judges used their safe so early on Casey. She should have been the actual contestant they should have used their safe on.

[@HeroShades]

Yeah agreed. I mean I loved Casey too because he was unique and he shouldn't have been in that bottom 3 in the first place even the judges was pissed. If he wasn't in the bottom they would have saved Pia for sure. Since he was in the bottom 3 that time I would have eliminated him just in case if Pia landed there. She should have been at least fourth place or third place as I loved Lauren and Haley as well.

[@lexsoft3969]

At that time, I couldn't get her elimination. But now, when looking back at the top 9, I find the other contestants were uniquely interesting; some of them were really entertaining. Now I can enjoy Paul McDonald in addition to Casey Abrams. Maybe I will give Jacob Lusk's place to her, although I like his rendition of "Man In The Mirror" by Michael Jackson.

[@deniskostic1502]

She s professional that's the reason

[@luftgardaramirez5363]

TINA TURNER......UNICA.

[@itsmeAshley84]

Sang girl 🤩🤩🤩

[@bethvigna7974]

I never knew this was a Tina Turner sing. I know it as a Celine Dion song! 🤷🏻‍♀️❤️

[@somedaywellknow1811]

It is celines version shes singing

[@mujimike4931]

So beautiful Weldon sis

[@vincentnapolitano8188]

She should of won

[@oliviacraner8156]

RIP TINA

[@lexsoft3969]

I don't remember this performance, because I didn't know the song then. Only after listening to Holie Cavanagh cover the same song at AI 2012, when I saw this link, I clicked. To me, it's a good cover.

[@howardcampbell6796]

The best cover goes to the one by the four tops and the supremes

[@meltanellthemodel6765]

😭🔥

[@merayahcarey9390]

Its almost 9 years ago but u upload it now! Lol

[@PiaParadise]

We had all the Idol performance videos except this one uploaded back in 2012, but they were kept private because KZbin was handing out copyright strikes at the time. Today we decided to make those vids public and we made a playlist of all her Idol performances, so we uploaded this video as well, for the sake of completion.

[@lexsoft3969]

Hi, meet you again here. Nice.

[@merayahcarey9390]

@@lexsoft3969 Hi mate! You're stalking Pia now. lol Pia will always be fav singing competition female vocalist! She has complete package! I wish Siobhan could get more recognition like Pia as well

[@lexsoft3969]

@@merayahcarey9390 I forgot she covered this song at this round, the round when she got eliminated. Probably, because I didn't know this song then, unlike the Elton John's song she covered at previous round. Now, I got an idea. Seeing that Celine Dion had covered this song too, while Rimar is a fan of Celine, I want Rimar cover this upbeat song at Indo Idol's finale. Because, as far as I know, she had never sung an upbeat English song at that contest.

[@merayahcarey9390]

@@lexsoft3969 Yeah Pia sang Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me on previous round & she had suggestion from Randy to sing upbeat song for next round to prove that she's not only capable of singing ballad but also upbeat. Unfortunately she got voted off afterwards. Its a good idea if Rimar got a chance to sing english upbeat song like this one in finale. She can prove to anyone that she can sing upbeat while dancing around. It'd be interesting to see reaction from viewers & judges for that perfomance

[@user-ec6yn5gv5j]

Me encanto l entrega la potencia si hubiese tenido más agudos super pero estuvo mono

[@veronicasanchez6998]

She killed IT!! Bcz Jlo cannot sing, she has to perform. This gal SINGS.

[@tanoloc]

la energía que trasmite tina no se puede igualar , la verdad que es una versión bastante flaca

[@soaribb32]

She kinda sounded like Xtina

[@lewthrasher4194]

I stopped watching Idol for a few years after she didn't move on.

[@flintybraz1]

The finale should have been Pia and Haley

[@LanceDiazzz]

100%

[@TheBereangirl]

Oh no...voted off? What happened?? I think this song has a bias attached to it. You know..."I don't think ANYONE can have the energy for this song like Tina does!" And it's true, I get exhausted just watching Tina perform, but Pia did so great! I think Tina would have loved it.

[@Marcela-ok6fz]

How is it possible that she had been eliminated after this presentation?

[@gb-channel1880]

Checked from Jennifer. That is a confirmation , that is facts.

[@tammiemcinnis4971]

She is so good that it’s the band that is off and I mean they are really bad.

[@user-su4xo7ic3m]

She had a good voice but with this incredible song it was a fair performance

[@tonaka22]

If you think this is great you should hear and see Adrienne Warren do this song on Broadway.

[@plopperator]

Standard cabaret style.

[@morissantos2905]

Who's here in 2024?

[@frisco0077]

watch the girls in GLEE sing this

[@whitwhit4789]

She murdered the vocals but stage presence lacked. I needed to feel that she felt the song.

[@FDM33510]

After the way the judges treated Siobahn Magnus and Pia Toscano, I stopped watching A.I. F that show. Bring back Rock Star.... Now THAT, was an awesome talent show!!

[@ongki0adlrandoapulingpoap816]

CELINE MARIE CLAUDETA DION XREACTIONx......... 🎃

[@ingonowack3839]

Ah, the Vampire`s interviewer was on one of the shows 🤔🙄😬🤩🥳! Strange, why does this show run on a channel that supports the Hellraiser who`s been voted out 😳?

[@chaserr3777]

Not bad just a little bit of a flub towards the end there ; got a little over zealous bt hey y not ??!!

[@kingofthecastlegooglelie5150]

Celine Dion is my favorite with this song.

[@robertfager7028]

Listen to Courtney Hadwin sing this song. Then you will know how it's done

[@raymondlangella5276]

Pia was booted and did not continue on. What a shame! Another reason I have never like American Idol.

[@nikon052952]

need more grit....

[@jimbean7652]

She tired

[@WhiteOrchidLady]

sounds is not balanced. I can't hear her clearly. the music is too loud.

[@patatesist1]

stefano should've gone home instead of her

[@rosalieflip7646]

She should have won!! She was robbed!!

[@PhoenixMinistry]

Tina Turner? Let’s be real! Pia chose this song because she idolizes Celine Dion, not Tina! Celine’s version is much better and I’m sure that’s why Pia chose this!

[@tintomara6209]

Celine's version better than Tina's? Behave.

[@showmebear]

Please....Tina owns this.

[@tintomara6209]

@@showmebear Incontestably!

[@raywebb7501]

Go buy a compass, you're lost.

[@MsPlayfulspirit]

Please sit down. This child hasn't a clue

[@rezapahlevi6296]

And she eliminated in this episode 😌

[@garth56]

This is terrible Courtney makes this little girl look like an amature

[@haroldflint8112]

Pia's voice not well with this music. sadly

[@joe123586]

Love her! But too cockey and too sure of herself... thats why she was Eliminated.. Thats also why she wont be a Major world wide star! Being a great singer isnt just enough... likability and vulnerability is just as important!😘

[@PiaParadise]

Clearly you don't know a damn thing about Pia. Cocky and sure of herself? She had stage fright every time she had to perform on Idol and struggled with self-esteem and shyness issues constantly. She was about the furthest from cocky that you can get.

[@noski33]

Cocky was the wrong word, sometimes you’ll see her hands tremble holding the mic, although that might also be because she was holding it too tight, her emotions out of control. Her talent was just unrefined at that time, and she needed more training to control it. But she surely had the talent. But the Pia Toscano of today is like polished gold, a sparkling diamond.

[@jabarimoore3628]

Ehh, this song needs a special power. She has a nice voice but this wasn't it.

[@markeemark85]

Her singing is great but not for this song , it's a no

[@jaunabeeks3572]

I'm sorry ,but that rendition of Tina Turners song SUCKS! I can't believe they encouraged her to do it!

[@atlantaga55]

Oh...Sweetie No wonder you’re where votet out.....not a good voice

[@marellelaverty6140]

Sorry love but your not as good as Tina Turner

[@ongki0adlrandoapulingpoap816]

CELINE MARIE CLAUDETA DION XREACTIONx......... 🎃