Cowell, Demi Lovato, L. A. Reid and Brittany Spears. He got close but wasn ' t selected to be on the TV show.
Music has helped him deal with his PTSD and his anxiety.
" When you ' re learning to play a song, it takes away all the chaotic things that are going on in your life," he said. " It makes you focus on the music, the words to the song, the rhythm."
Middleton took radio and television classes under Dr. John Mark Dempsey at what is now called East Texas A & M University, where he graduated in 2014 and began worked as a morning disc jockey for a Greenville radio station.
He also worked in the medical profession before becoming a filmer and videographer with Greenville Electric Utility System from November 2022 to November 2024. He filmed sports contests of the Greenville Lions and Lady Lions.
He got his service dog Matilda, an Old English Mammut Bulldog in September 2023.
" She definitely keeps me calm and she senses when I have anxiety," said Middleton. " If I ' m depressed or down she senses it and comes to me and settles me down."
His faith has remained strong through much ordeal.
" I ' ve been a Christian since I was 12 years old," he said. " God ' s always had a purpose for me. I do believe it ' s playing music. But God ' s music."
Middleton once sang in bars as a professional. These days he ' d rather sing in church as a member of the Top Rail Cowboy Church in Greenville.
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