Flameworker Siobhan Magnus, in a photo from the official American Idol Website, ended her impressive run as a finalist when she was voted off on Wednesday evening's program. photo: FOX
Siobhan Magnus, the so-called “quirky” 20-year-old from Cape Cod with the surprisingly powerful voice, may have been eliminated during this week’s episode of American Idol, but her former boss at Morrison Glass Studio in Hyannis, Massachusetts, where she worked for three years as a flameworker before nailing her Idol audition, doesn’t expect her to be asking for her old job back any time soon.
“Siobhan can do anything she wants, she is an amazingly creative individual,” Brookes Morrison, owner of Morrison Glass Studio, told the Hot Sheet in a telephone interview. He compared his former employee to the Dalai Lama for her calm
From the Morrison Glass Studio website, Siobhan Magnus at the torch before she became a finalist on American Idol.
intensity and humble presence, which he got to know during the three years she worked for his borosilicate glass business in Cape Cod, where handmade pendants and wineglasses are sold. Morrison was puzzled when Siobhan was repeatedly described on the show as eccentric or unusual. “I guess they’re not used to someone being real and honest,” he said.
Long since sold, this flameworked creature shown in a February 2010 video was made by American Idol contestant Siobhan Magnus when she worked at Morrison Glass Studio.
Siobhan’s own creations, mostly pendants, have long since sold out, and Morrison has not had official word on whether his former employee is planning to come back to work, but he doubts it. Instead, he wondered if Siobhan might channel some of her new-found celebrity into a new project that connects to her interest in horror movies, which she was fascinated by, often reading magazines about horror flicks, according to her former boss. Siobhan herself mentioned Broadway musical and horror films in an interview she gave to TV Guide yesterday.
“I don’t think she’s going to have to work,” her former employer Morrison added. “Hopefully she’s going to do other things, she was always doing something creative in her spare time.”
Below, you can watch a February 2010 interview with Brookes Morrison in a video report by the area’s newspaper, The Cape Cod Times.
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