K-Blocks’ run on “American Idol” might have ended over the weekend, but fans probably haven’t seen the last of her.

As Lionel Richie said after her last performance featured on the show, “You are possessed when you go on stage. You hit a zone that is so beautiful to watch. Do not be predictable. I don’t care where you go in this competition; your career is (about) your unpredictability.”

That was during an episode where the Top 24 tried to fire up viewers for a round of online voting. On Sunday night, the results were revealed, and K-Blocks was one of four singers cut as the Top 24 became the Top 24. (Two Alabama contenders, Triston Harper and Mia Matthews, made it through. Monday night’s episode will reveal whether they move on to the Top 14.

Singing Katy Perry’s “Harleys in Hawaii” in Hawaii, for a panel of judges including Katy Perry, was a bold choice, as show mentor Jelly Roll pointed out. Such daring is nothing new for K-Blocks, who spoke to AL.com before her final performance aired.

“I think I was just always pretty bold,” she said.

The 27-year-old from Montgomery, whose full name is Kenyona Grace Trenise Blocker, didn’t show up during the audition episodes of “Idol’s” current season. While seven other competitors from Alabama came to light, producers opted to keep her under wraps. That ended in the show’s two Hollywood episodes, when she emerged as the wildest of wild cards and became one of three Alabamians in the show’s Top 24.

“Idol” tends to draw a fair share of would-be superstars with little to no experience performing in public. Some start the competition with a bit of stage presence, many just stand and deliver in the opening rounds and get coached on stagecraft as they go.

From the first second K-Blocks got on screen in the “Idol Arena” episode, it was clear she was no wallflower. Viewers got a few sparse snippets of her original audition, where she sang “Higher” by the Nigerian singer Tems. It wasn’t the most arresting vocal, but it was a daring choice delivered with an abundance of personality.

“Lionel, he called me a little weird, but he called me a good weird,” she said. What superstar judge Lionel Richie said on camera was a little more diplomatic: “I think your unpredictability is your strength.”

In a clip establishing her background, she said that she’d lost her father at 10, when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. “Music kept me on this planet,” she said.

Her “Idol Arena” song choice was Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie,” once again a quirky, confident, full-body effort that got glowing praise from the judges. “When you look at a star they’re just so interesting to watch,” said Katy Perry. “They’re fun, they’re playful, they’re exciting. All those things, you are. … I just want to have more fun with you.”

In the “Showstoppers” episode she followed up with another distinctive song choice, “River” by Bishop Briggs. She didn’t just run with the energy of a full-band performance, she amplified it with a scatting breakdown that lit up the judges.

More praise followed: “For you to get to our Top 24, you had to be fierce,” said Richie. “And you stood the test. You’re in our Top 24. … I love one think about you. You give it all. You made us pay attention.”

“This is everything I’ve ever worked for,” K-Blocks said on the show, tears streaming down her face. “All the struggles I’ve been through, it was meant for this moment.”

K-Blocks told AL.com that she doesn’t think of herself as just a singer.

“Yeah, I’m a performer,” she said. “I like to think I’m a performer. I never really consider myself an actual singer. But as far as like a performer though, think that’s, that’s me.”

The scatting during “River” is an example of her tendency to go with her instincts and not hold back, she said. “I kinda just do what I feel,” she said. “I don’t necessarily plan things out.”

“I think it’s my superpower,” she said. “I feel like we all have our own little swags about us and I think my swag is what I do. I feel like people love me based off what I present: I really can’t give them nothing more, nothing less.”

“When I think about, like, a great artist and a great performer, I think about Lady Gaga, Mick Jagger, I think of the great Michael Jackson, Amy Waterhouse, I think about the performers who have been called weird, who have been called odd, but have sold out stadiums.”

She has marching band experience at the high school and college levels, she said, and that might account for some of her visual flair. But she said that where she really worked on her craft was on the small stages of open-mic nights.

“I started doing open mics at the BB King Blues Club [at Wind Creed Casino] in Montgomery,” she said. “I don’t know how I just got the confidence just to go on stage. “I think I was just always pretty bold and I never really had any care for what people thought about me or whatever. So I just hopped on stage because I just wanted to be on stage.”

It was her first classroom, when it came to learning how to win over an audience. From there she moved on to organizing her own events, creating showcases not just for her singing but for her poetry.

Her song choices on the show so far reflect her eclectic real-life tastes, she said.

She’d watched “Idol” some when she was younger, she said, and “There was no part of me that thought I was going to make it to the auditions, let alone Hollywood.”

“I have a very wide variety of taste of music [in terms of] what I listen to when I’m at home by myself. I listen to trap girl rap music and then the next second I might listen to Erykah Badu and then after that I might listen to some Amy Winehouse and I might listen to all the pop girlies. Amy Winehouse is one of my favorite artists, she’s one of the artists that I kind of grew up listening to. She’s one of my influences. Bishop Briggs, that “River” song is just a really cool song. I like the energy that she puts into it. I like the feeling I feel when I sing it and I just think they’re just really cool people.”

Another big facet of her personality is that she likes to emphasize the healing power of emphasizing the positives. Crying might be healing for some, but she’d rather laugh.

“I feel like that’s what I want to bring,” she said. “I feel like I don’t want people to have a misconception of healing has to be this sad sorrow journey. And I want to turn things up a bit and I want people to realize that you don’t have to tone yourself down in order to make yourself acceptable for people who don’t like you.

“I want to be the epitome of being your authentic true self without any filters, without any care or regards for the naysayers,” she said. “I just want people to understand that life is beautiful and you don’t have to change who you are to make life comfortable for other people. If the life that you live is the life that you wanna live, live that life.”

K-Blocks said there had been a good rapport among the Alabama contingent and the Top 24 in general.

“Mia is a very beautiful, spirited girl. Triston, he’s hilarious. I love that,” she said. “We talk, we love each other. I think as a whole, the 24 of us have like a really cool family type relationship. I think we all like mesh very well and I think we kind of like forget it’s a competition at times.”

As Sunday night’s episode revealed who would make the Top 20, a moment came when K-Blocks, Odell Bunton Jr. and Elleigh Marie were told that only one of them would advance. That turned out to be Bunton. As judges Lionel Riche and Luke Bryan applauded, Perry lowered her head in a way that made her reaction difficult to read.

K-Blocks posted a screenshot of that moment afterward on Facebook. “My girl Katy was visibly hurt,” she wrote. “I know Girl … I know.”

“American Idol” airs at 7 p.m. Central time on ABC on Sundays and Mondays. The day after they premiere, episodes become available for streaming on Hulu.