Hawaii native Iam Tongi wins ‘American Idol’

“American Idol” judge Katy Perry predicted it, the “line” in Las Vegas put odds on it, and on Sunday it came to be: Iam Tongi — Kahuku-born-and-raised, “priced out of paradise” and now a resident of Federal Way, Wash. — won Season 21 of “American Idol.”

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