Singer Jimmy Levy found an audience on AMERICAN IDOL, but he says the life that followed left him lonely enough to finally listen to a friend who kept pointing him toward Jesus.
“When I was in the industry, I became very lonely, depressed, and I realized how dark it is,” Levy told Fox News Digital in 2023.
According to CBN, Levy appeared on AMERICAN IDOL in 2020 and says he received baptism on July 4, 2021.
The singer described his early involvement in the occult as an attempt to fit in, rather than the result of a settled belief in Satan. Looking back, he told Fox that he did not understand what he was getting into.
He said he put an image of the devil on his hand as a tattoo. What he initially treated casually became frightening to him, and he described nighttime experiences that he understood as demonic torment.
“I realized that Satan was real,” Levy said in the Fox interview.
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He described those experiences as a spiritual wake-up call. His account also included a struggle that reached into his work. He said smoking and other choices affected his voice, leaving him unable to sing at one point.
For a singer, that meant trouble reaching the very instrument that had helped open doors for him. The opportunities following television exposure had not kept him from feeling isolated, according to his account.
At that low point, Levy reached out to his friend Nick, whom he described as the leader of an online Christian ministry. Nick had already tried to speak with him about Jesus, including when he saw troubling images Levy posted.
Levy said he initially brushed those conversations aside and cited his Jewish background when refusing to hear more. The friend’s persistence mattered: Levy eventually embraced Christ, began reading the Bible and got baptized.
His account gives Christian families a reason to speak plainly about occult practices rather than shrug them off as harmless experimentation. Deuteronomy 18:10–12 explicitly warns against witchcraft, divination and consulting the dead; the warning does not depend on whether a person begins with serious intent.
By the time of his 2023 interview, Levy said he wanted to focus on worship music. He had released the single “Amen,” which also has an official music video on his YouTube channel.
“But now it’s time for God,” he told Fox News Digital.
Levy’s renewed testimony points back to a change that began years before this week’s headlines, when a persistent friend kept answering his questions about Jesus. His goal was to use the voice he once struggled to use to serve the Savior he had come to trust.
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