“X Factor” famous singer Bea Miller is riding high on reviews of her new single “Never Gonna Be Like You” and a recent Saturday afternoon set at Texas’ revered Austin City Limits festival where the 20-year-old pop star showed off a new sound and sentiment that would make any one of her Disney Channel followers blush. Small town Minnesota pop songwriter Kennedi opens the show.

Bea Miller w/Kennedi. Wed. Oc. 16, 7 p.m. $18-$35. Orpheum, Ybor City. eventbrite.com.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...