Emmanuel Kelly
INSPIRATIONAL Melbourne teenager Emmanuel Kelly is on his way to Hollywood.
Kelly, 18, whose emotional performance of John Lennon's Imagine on The X Factor has been watched 11 million times on YouTube, has America in his sights after a successful trip to Los Angeles in January.
He will head back to the US later this year to follow up several successful leads, including an appearance on reality show The Glee Project.
If he's successful there, he could score a guest spot on the smash hit musical drama Glee.
Kelly, adopted son of Children First Foundation's Moira Kelly, filmed an audition with Glee casting director Robert J. Ulrich, who also welcomed him into his family home.
Watch Emmanuel sing Imagine on The X Factor

"I am very fortunate where I am right now," Kelly told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"I feel like I'm the luckiest teenager in the world. A lot of teenagers would be wishing for these opportunities to come up, but maybe it's all part of the plan.
"My dream is to change the world in some way and show that anyone can achieve if they put their minds to something."
While in Hollywood, Kelly recorded a song called Dream Big on a movie soundtrack for a film called Crooked Arrows.
Directed by Steve Rash, the story is about a native American lacrosse team.
On top of this, he has just released his own single on iTunes called Song For Edis, which was co-written with Moira and is now available.
But it's a future in the US that could very well happen for the charismatic singer.
Kelly was 17 when he met Ulrich in January when the Glee plans were discussed.
"He (Ulrich) said to me that when the executive producer saw me on X Factor he looked at me and said, 'We'd like to do something with you, whether we go on the show or whether you join The Glee Project itself'," he said.
"I think they are very keen so hopefully we can go somewhere with it."
Producers had wanted Kelly to be on the last season of The Glee Project, but he would have fallen foul of American labour laws because he was only 17 at the time.
Now, at 18, there's no stopping him.
Kelly and his brother, Ahmed, who has made the Australian Paralympics swimming team, were adopted from Iraq.
They had been abandoned as infants, both suffering limb deficiencies as a result of chemical warfare.
He has to have hip and possibly other surgeries this year, which will impact on when he returns to the US.