Ennis singer/songwriter/stylist/cosmetologist wows American Idol judges with his Southern sparkle and shine

Reagan Mills grew up in churches in Ennis and in Paris, Texas, playing piano and singing with his mom and sisters during church services.

ENNIS, Texas — You know you're a big deal in a small town like Ennis when someone anonymously offers to pick up your tab at a local restaurant. "We were in this Chili's, the Ennis Chili's," Mills told WFAA."Somebody, out of the goodness of their heart, paid for our meal without telling us.

"Everybody has been ... I feel like a superstar," Mills said weeks later in an interview with WFAA at Grace Tabernacle, his family's church in Ennis."I mean, I just feel like one of them old Hollywood people there. People are coming up to me like, can we take a picture with you? And I'm like, what?!"

Russell Adrian Mills was just 58 years old when he contracted COVID. He was improving in a Mansfield-area hospital when he suffered a pulmonary embolism and"I wish he was here," Reagan Mills said of his dad."Because let me tell you, he would be going hog wild over this whole experience!"

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