NSA Alum Advances to Final 14 on American Idol

Dan Marshall, a graduate of Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, has been taking the American Idol stage by storm.

On Monday night, Marshall, known as Daniel Griffith during his days as a student-athlete at NSA and later at Virginia Tech, advanced to the final 14 on the 20th season of Idol. He was voted by fans as one of the competition’s top 10 performers after a Sunday night performance of Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places.” After it was announced Monday night that he had advanced, Marshall sang “Stuck on You” by Lionel Richie, one of the competition’s judges. “He knocked it out of the park,” Richie declared.

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