A Rome native made it through the first round of auditions on the Season 9 premiere of American Idol.

On the show, Benjamin Bright, 25, sang the Beatles song “All My Loving” for the judges at the Boston try out, and made it through to Hollywood.

Bright is a former Rome Free Academy student who went on to graduate from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. He currently teaches music and chorus at Cumberland Head Elementary School in the Beekmantown Central School District near Plattsburgh.