AGT finalist Michael Ketterer has been in the headlines recently, and not for his impressive performances on America’s Got Talent. Ketterer was set to play a sold-out show at Notre Dame Stadium with country music superstar Garth Brooks on October 20 but plans changed after he was arrested on domestic violence charges.
Who is Michael Ketterer?
The 41-year-old AGT finalist was arrested in Hollywood last Thursday on domestic violence charges after officers responded to a call and noticed there were red marks on his wife, Ivey Ketterer’s body.
TMZ reported that Ketterer admitted that he and his wife got into the fight in their hotel room, where cops were called. Although she reportedly didn’t want to press charges, authorities arrested Ketterer. He told TMZ that the incident was a “misunderstanding.”
The arrest came soon after the registered nurse from Knoxville Tennesee found out life-changing news.
After Ketterer’s moving performance on AGT singing “Aint No Mountain High Enough,” judge Simon Cowell made a shout-out to Garth Brooks saying he should write a song for the father of six if he made it to the finals.
On an episode of Facebook Live Brooks responded “I told Simon last week, the opportunity to write, and the opportunity to write for someone else, I haven’t done that in a while. We’re going to suit you up with a band. We’re going to put you out in front of 85,000 of the sweetest people you’ve ever played for before, and they’re going to be pulling for you like no other. This is going to be good,” he said.
Ketterer was in disbelief “I’m going to fall out of this speaker they have me sitting on right now,” he told Brooks during the episode. “I feel like what happened is beyond what I thought or imagined.”
However, that dream was short lived.
Garth Brooks announced that Ketterer would not be performing with him at Notre Dame soon after the domestic violence claims came up “I think we were all raised this way. I’m sure you were probably raised the same way I was. You can’t just turn your back on things … you have to address them, so let’s just address the Michael Ketterer situation and America’s Got Talent. Called him this weekend, we talked. We decided it was better that he not appear at Notre Dame and not perform there,” Brooks told viewers on his live-streamed video show Inside Studio G. “That family will figure it out and find it within themselves, and of course the good Lord, and figure it out. Michael Ketterer will not be at Notre Dame.”
Brooks also spoke about what he was going to do with the song he wrote for the AGT finalist “I’ll tell you what, we’ll just stick it in the system. What we should do, how do we get it to the people? Here’s the deal: it’s a demo. It’s just something you write for somebody else. So it doesn’t even sound like me, it doesn’t sound like me at all. But we can fix this demo and get it out because the main thing is the song and its message,” he added.
