A dear subway singer from New York City who was launched to stardom in “America’s Got Talent” died at age 72.
Alice Tan Ridley, the mother of Oscar Nominated Gabourrey Sidibe, died on March 25 in New York City.
His death was confirmed by his loved ones, including the “beautiful” Achant, 41, in an obitarian published by Sconiers funeral home in Columbus, Ga.
No cause of death was announced.
Born on December 21, 1952, the New York native graduated from the Stewart County Secondary School in 1969 before he ignored his teaching license of the New York State Education Board.
Ridley then started a career in a special education teacher at Brooklyn.
In 1980, he married Ibnou Sidibe. The couple welcomed the acres of “Empire” in 1983, as well as their son Ahmed.
The duo finally divorced, but remained in good terms in the years after his division, added the obitarian.
Ridley was remembered as a “Pilar of the Sing Circuit of New York City” after spending more than three decades in search of bus at the Herald Square subway station.
Later, I blessed to sing in the Metro to obtain advice, interpreting ballads of power as “I Will Always The Will You”, “I Will Survive” and “My heart will continue.”
Later, Ridley managed to get a singing concert paid at the Harlem’s Cotton Club, before winning $ 25,000 on the 2002 pilot of “30 seconds to fame” of Fox and then appears in “Showtime at the Apollo”.
He appeared on television screens again in 2005 playing “Amazing Grace” in the documentary of David Lachapelle “and” America The Beautiful “in the 2005 film” Heights. “
Ridley won an Emmy on the other hand in the 2007 documentary “Military families.”
In 2010, Ridley tested his vocal talent by auditioning for “America’s Got Talent”.
Her cover of Last “by Etta James promoted her to the semifinals.
Judge Howie Mandel was tasks out of Ridley’s song skills, saying at that time: “Every time it continues, it is a heater and moving heart.”
After his periods on television, Ridley released his debut album, titled “Never My Way”, in 2016.
The album proved to be a transmission success, but did not prevent him from acting again in the Metro.
In 2018, he begged to suffer dementia, which led her to stop her career and subsignal retirement, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Ridley is survived by his two children, grandson, his two brothers, two sisters and other relatives.
