Chayce Beckham, a singer-songwriter from Apple Valley, California, was born on July 16, 1996. She first gained notoriety after winning the nineteenth season of the singing competition program American Idol.
In Los Angeles, California, Beckham submitted an application to compete on American Idol’s twentieth season. Beckham gained the most votes to win after making it through Hollywood Week and the Top 5, and on May 23, 2021, he was declared the champion of the nineteenth season of American Idol, defeating runner-up Willie Spence.
He sang the song “23,” which he had written a year earlier, on American Idol, and it quickly rose to the top of the iTunes chart. He made the song available as a single. He became the first Idol champion to accomplish so with an original song thanks to the song.