Standout ‘X Factor’ Singer Freddie Combs Dies at 49

Freddie Combs — a minister and season 2 contestant on The X Factor USA — died last week, according to a Cocoa, Fla., funeral home. He was 49 at the time of his death on Sept. 10.
The minister made his debut on the show in 2012 while judges Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato and L.A. Reid held auditions at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. Combs sang Bette Midler’s 1988 song “Wind Beneath My Wings” from a wheelchair. His performance of the t