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Anaheim, California
Anaheim (pronounced /ˈænəhaɪm/) is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 336,265, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States. The city anticipates that the population will surpass 400,000 by 2014 because of rapid development in its Platinum Triangle area as well as in Anaheim Hills. The Platinum Triangle is the fastest growing area in Orange County. Anaheim is the second largest city in Orange County in terms of land area (after Irvine), and is known for its theme parks, sports teams and convention center.
Founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated as the second city in Los Angeles County on February 10, 1870, Anaheim developed into an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft parts and canned fruit. It is the site of the Disneyland Resort, a world-famous grouping of theme parks and hotels which opened in 1955, Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Honda Center and Anaheim Convention Center, the largest convention center on the West Coast. Its name is a blend of "Ana", after the nearby Santa Ana River, and "heim", a common German place name compound originally meaning "home".
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Austin, Texas
Austin (/ˈɒstɨn/ or /ˈɔːstɨn/) is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 790,390 (2010 U.S. Census). The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan area, which had an estimated population 1,783,519 (2011 U.S. Census), making it the 34th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
In the 1830s, pioneers began to the settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River. After Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau B. Lamar visited the area during a buffalo-hunting expedition between 1837 and 1838, he proposed that the republic's capital then located in Houston, Texas, be relocated to the area situated on the north bank of the Colorado River near the present-day Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. In 1839, the site was officially chosen as the republic's new capital (the republic's seventh and final location) and was incorporated under the name, Waterloo. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas" and the republic's first secretary of state.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham (
/ˈbɜrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area had a population of about 1,128,047 according to the 2010 Census, which is approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.
Birmingham was founded in 1871, just after the American Civil War, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading. Birmingham was named for Birmingham, one of the major industrial cities of the United Kingdom. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced /ˈbɒstən/ or locally /ˈbɔstən/ (
listen)) is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper, covering only 48.43 square miles, had a population of 617,594 according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula. During the late 18th century, Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the peninsula. After American independence was attained Boston became a major shipping port and manufacturing center, and its rich history now helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million every year. The city was the site of several firsts, including America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and the first subway system in the United States (1897).
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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Chicago, Illinois
Chicago (
i/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
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Coronado, California
Coronado, also known as Coronado Island, is an affluent resort city located in San Diego County, California, 5.2 miles from downtown San Diego. Its population was 24,697 at the 2010 census, up from 24,100 at the 2000 census. U.S. News and World Report lists Coronado as one of the most expensive places to reside in the United States. Coronado lies on a peninsula connected to the mainland by a 10-mile isthmus called the Silver Strand (locally, The Strand.) Locals sometimes call Coronado The Island or Coronado Island, and they denote the core living and business area as The Village. In May 2012, Dr. Stephen Leatherman, Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research, ranked Coronado Beach as the best beach in the United States.
Coronado is Spanish for "the crowned one", and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City. There have been three ships of the United States Navy named after the city, including the USS Coronado (LCS-4).
The town of Coronado was founded in 1885. The land was purchased by E.L Babcock, along with Hampton L. Story and Jacob Gruendike. Their intention was to create a resort community, and in 1886 the Coronado Beach Company was organized. By 1888 they had built the Hotel del Coronado and the city became a major resort destination. They also built a schoolhouse, and formed athletic, boating, and baseball clubs.
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Denver
Denver ( /ˈdɛnvər/) (Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe' ) is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado. As Denver County, it is the second most populous county in Colorado after El Paso County, which surpassed Denver County as of the 2010 Census. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (1.6 km) or 5,280 feet (1,609.344 m) above sea level, which is defined by the elevation of the spot of a benchmark on the steps of the State Capital building. The elevation of the entire city ranges from 5,130 to 5,680 feet. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich passes through Union Station and is the temporal reference for the Mountain Time Zone.
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Denver, Colorado
Denver ( /ˈdɛnvər/) (Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe' ) is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado. As Denver County, it is the second most populous county in Colorado after El Paso County, which surpassed Denver County as of the 2010 Census. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (1.6 km) or 5,280 feet (1,609.344 m) above sea level, which is defined by the elevation of the spot of a benchmark on the steps of the State Capital building. The elevation of the entire city ranges from 5,130 to 5,680 feet. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich passes through Union Station and is the temporal reference for the Mountain Time Zone.
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Duluth, Georgia
Duluth is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia and an increasingly more affluent and developed suburb of Atlanta. Unincorporated portions of Forsyth County also have Duluth as a mailing address, though this area is outside city limits. Much of the adjacent city of Johns Creek (incorporated in 2006) uses one of the Duluth ZIP codes.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 26,600.
Duluth is a suburb of Atlanta, close to Interstate 85. It is home to Gwinnett Place Mall, Gwinnett Civic and Cultural Center, Arena at Gwinnett Center, Hudgens Center for the Arts and Red Clay Theater. It is also home to Gwinnett Medical Center – Duluth, an 81-bed hospital constructed in 2006, as well as GMC's Glancy Campus, a 30-bed facility located near downtown. Nearby attractions include Stone Mountain and Lake Lanier. The agricultural manufacturer AGCO is based in Duluth.
According to Forbes magazine, Duluth ranks 26th in the nation in America's Best Places to Move. It was also named the Best Affordable Suburb in Georgia by BusinessWeek magazine.
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Gravette, Arkansas
Gravette is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,325 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Gravette is located at 36°25′12″N 94°27′9″W / 36.42°N 94.4525°W / 36.42; -94.4525 (36.419962, -94.452584).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2).100% of the city's area is land and none of it is covered by water.
Gravette is situated approximately 87 miles east of Tulsa, Oklahoma and 29 miles northwest of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The original name of the first European settlement at this location was Nebo. The Nebo area is now referred to as Old Town in Chalk Valley and was the earliest pioneer settlement of the community. The settlement was platted in the 1870s by Joseph P. Covey, who relocated to Southwest City, Missouri, in the year 1881. Ellis Tillman Gravett opened the Chalk Valley Distillery in Nebo and was also the proprietor of a general merchandise store. In 1891, he moved that store west out of the valley to what is now downtown Gravette. Gravette was incorporated on January 27, 1899. By the year 1910 the population of Gravette amounted to 569.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
On February 16, 2005, California Assembly Members Jackie Goldberg and Paul Koretz introduced a bill to require California to keep specific records on Hollywood as if it were independent, although it is not the typical practice of the City of Los Angeles to establish specific boundaries for districts or neighborhoods. For this to be done, the boundaries were defined. The bill was unanimously supported by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles City Council. Assembly Bill 588 was approved by the Governor of California on August 28, 2006, and now the district of Hollywood has official borders. The border can be loosely described as the area east of West Hollywood, south of Mulholland Drive, Laurel Canyon, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Barham Boulevard, and the cities of Burbank and Glendale, north of Melrose Avenue and west of the Golden State Freeway and Hyperion Avenue. This includes all of Griffith Park and Los Feliz[citation needed] – two areas that were hitherto considered separate from Hollywood by most Angelenos. The population of the district, including Los Feliz, as of the 2000 census was 123,436 and the median household income was $33,409 in 1999.
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Kodak Theatre
Coordinates: 34°06′09.75″N 118°20′24.5″W / 34.1027083°N 118.340139°W / 34.1027083; -118.340139
The Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre) is a live entertainment theatre in the Hollywood and Highland shopping mall and entertainment complex on Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Since its opening on November 9, 2001, the theatre has been the home of the annual Academy Awards ceremonies (the Oscars), which were first held there in March 2002, and is the first permanent home for the awards. Since 2002, the theatre was also the home for American Idol.
The theatre was designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group, and Theatre Projects Consultants specifically with the Oscars in mind. It has a seating capacity for up to 3,332 people. The stage is one of the largest in the United States, roughly tied with the Elliot Hall of Music at Purdue University, measuring 113 feet (34 m) wide by 60 feet (18 m) deep.
The theatre is particularly successful as a venue for a televised theatre performance (improving production values and economies in American Idol and the Academy Awards) through the planning and technical design. The architect and advisers undertook extensive consultation with many of the leading production personnel in Hollywood which led to highly functional production cable infrastructure systems including an underground cable bunker which passes below the theatre to truck locations in adjacent streets, accessible and substantial power, and a unique camera, sound and stage management cockpit designed by Rockwell in the orchestra seating area.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas (/lɑːs ˈveɪɡəs/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its consolidated casino–hotels and associated entertainment. A growing retirement and family city, Las Vegas is the 28th-most populous city in the United States, with a population at the 2010 census of 583,756. The 2010 population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area was 1,951,269.
Established in 1905, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, Las Vegas was the most populous American city founded in that century (a distinction held by Chicago in the 19th century). The city's tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and this image has made Las Vegas a popular setting for films and television programs. There are numerous outdoor lighting displays on Fremont Street, as well as elsewhere in the city.
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Levittown, New York
Levittown is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. Levittown is midway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 51,881.
Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. founded by William Levitt, who built the district as a planned community between 1947 and 1951. William Levitt is considered the father of modern suburbia. Levittown was the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country.[citation needed]
The building firm, Levitt and Sons, headed by Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, built four planned communities called "Levittown" (in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico), but Levittown, New York, was the first. Additionally, Levitt and Sons designs feature prominently in the older portion of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Vernon Hills, Illinois, Willingboro, New Jersey, and the Belair section of Bowie, Maryland.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.
Memphis had a population of 662,897 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, the third largest in the Southeastern United States, and the 20th largest in the United States. The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2010 population of 1,316,100. This makes Memphis the second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed only by metropolitan Nashville, which has overtaken Memphis in recent years. Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as the "Mid-South".
Because it occupies a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis is a natural location for settlement. The area was first settled by the Mississippian Culture and then by the Chickasaw Indian tribe. For 10,000 years they occupied the bluffs along the river, building a large mound on the bluff. European exploration came later, beginning in the 16th century with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
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Nevada
Nevada (i/nəˈvædə/ or /nəˈvɒdə/) is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 35th most populous, and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in one single county, Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area, where the state's three largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada's capital is Carson City.
Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge. Approximately 86% of the state's land is owned by the US government under various jurisdictions, both civilian and military.
The name Nevada is derived from the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains, which means "snow-capped mountain range" in Spanish. The land comprising the modern state was inhabited by Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes prior to European contact. It was subsequently claimed by Spain as a part of Alta California until the Mexican War of Independence brought it under Mexican control. The United States gained the territory in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War and the area was eventually incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that was an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond ( /ˈrɪtʃmənd/) is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond area. The population within the city limits was 204,214 in 2010, with an estimated population of 1,258,251 for the Richmond Metropolitan Area — making it the third largest in Virginia.
Geographically, Richmond is located at the fall line of the James River, 108 miles (174 km) south of Washington DC, 71 miles (114 km) east of Charlottesville, and 54 miles (87 km) west of Williamsburg. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288.
The site of Richmond, at the fall line of the James River, had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610–1611. The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780. During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775 at St. John's Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson. During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America. The city entered the 20th century with one of the world's first successful electric streetcar systems, as well as a national hub of African-American commerce and culture, the Jackson Ward neighborhood.
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Tampa, Florida
Tampa (pronunciation: /ˈtæmpə/) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County and is located on the west coast of Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709.
The current location of Tampa was once inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Safety Harbor culture, most notably the Tocobaga and the Pohoy, who lived along the shores of Tampa Bay. It was briefly explored by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century, but there were no permanent American or European settlements within today's city limits until after the United States had acquired Florida from Spain in 1819.
In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of today's Tampa Convention Center. The first civilian residents were pioneers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population. The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s.
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The Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands is a master-planned community and a Census-designated place (CDP) in the US state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population of the CDP was 55,649 at the 2000 census—a 90% increase over its 1990 population. According to the 2010 census, The Woodlands' population rose by 68.6% to 93,847 in 2010.
The Woodlands is located 32 miles (51 km) north of Houston along Interstate 45. Though it began as a suburban development and a bedroom community, it also has attracted corporations to the area. As a result, the area features several corporate campuses, most notably Chevron Phillips, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Baker Hughes, CB&I, US Oncology, Hewitt Associates, Maersk Line, and Safmarine. The development won a Special Award for Excellence in 1994 from the Urban Land Institute.
The Woodlands was dedicated by George P. Mitchell in 1974, managed by The Woodlands Corporation as an extension of Mitchell Energy & Development.[citation needed] Mitchell, an oil businessperson, planned to establish a conference center, hotels, office parks, retail malls, schools, large distribution centers, and golf courses. The house offerings would range from affordable to expensive and large. Bill Schadewald of the Houston Business Journal said that Mitchell wanted the development to "entice city slickers looking for far-flung suburban quality of life." Schadewald said that local sources stated that the New Town program, a federally funded program, had a "low survival rate" and questioned whether The Woodlands would succeed.
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Ukraine
Ukraine (i/juːˈkreɪn/ yew-KRAYN; Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina, [ukrɑˈjinɑ]; Russian: Украина; Crimean Tatar: Ukraina) is a country in Central and Eastern Europe. Ukraine borders the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after the Russian Federation.
According to a popular and well established theory, the medieval state of Kievan Rus was established by the Varangians in the 9th century as the first historically recorded East Slavic state which emerged as a powerful nation in the Middle Ages until it disintegrated in the 12th century. By the middle of the 14th century, Ukrainian territories were under the rule of three external powers—the Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Kingdom of Poland. After the Great Northern War (1700–1721) Ukraine was divided between a number of regional powers and, by the 19th century, the largest part of Ukraine was integrated into the Russian Empire with the rest under Austro-Hungarian control. A chaotic period of incessant warfare ensued, with several internationally recognized attempts at independence from 1917 to 1921, following World War I and the Russian Civil War. Ukraine emerged from its own civil war, and on December 30, 1922 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic became one of the founding republics of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian SSR's territory was enlarged westward during the civil war shortly before, and after World War II, and further south in 1954 with the Crimea transfer. In 1945, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the United Nations.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Ace Young
Brett Asa "Ace" Young (born November 15, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He came to national recognition upon appearing on the fifth season of the reality television talent show, American Idol, although he was eliminated from the competition on April 19, 2006, finishing in seventh place. Young is engaged to Diana DeGarmo, who was runner-up on American Idol season three.
Young was raised in Denver, Colorado.
Young, who has been singing since the age of nine, attended voice lessons and performed at local shopping malls and recreation centers during his youth. He performed at various venues in Colorado and other western states, most notably at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Young graduated from Fairview High School, his local high school, in 1999, having participated in athletics, choir, and International Baccalaureate classes during his school years.
After his high school graduation, Young opened for Brian McKnight and New Edition, and sang the national anthem at Denver Nuggets games. His first published song, "Reason I Live" was featured in the 2000 film The Little Vampire.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.
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American Juniors
American Juniors is a reality television series that broadcast on the Fox Network as a spin-off of American Idol, created by Simon Fuller and 19 Entertainment, FremantleMedia, directed by Bruce Gowers, and produced by Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick. It was very similar to the adult American Idol, much like the British series S Club Search (producing the S Club Juniors) was to British band S Club 7. The only season of American Juniors aired in the summer of 2003. It was taped in Hollywood, California, U.S.
Two thousand children and teenagers auditioned for the show. From there, a selected group of kids and their parents were flown out to Hollywood to participate in "Hollywood Week." During "Hollywood Week", several cuts took place, eliminating all but 20 of the children and teens who originally auditioned. These kids were shown on TV during 2 top-20 episodes, which each showcased 10 kids. For each top-20 episode, America voted for the 5 kids they wanted to see in the top-10. Once the top-10 was formed, America voted each week for the one contestant they wanted to put into the group. The results were aired the following evening with the next round beginning the following week. Taylor Thompson was the first contestant voted into the group. She was eventually followed by her younger sister, Tori Thompson, Chauncey Matthews, Lucy Hale, and Danielle White.
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Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, OMRI, OMDSM (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa boˈtʃɛlli]; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident.
Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994, Bocelli has recorded thirteen solo studio albums, of both pop and classical music, two greatest hits albums, and eight complete operas, selling over 75 million records worldwide. Thus, he is the biggest-selling solo artist in the history of classical music and has caused core classical repertoire to "cross over" to the top of international pop charts and into previously uncharted territory in popular culture.
In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first, and so far only time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price, in 1961.The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the top 3 positions on the US classical albums charts. Six of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, and a record-setting 8, have topped the classical albums charts in the United States.
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Angie Aparo
Angie Aparo is an American musician and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently recording an album and touring with his long-time drummer, Derek Murphy.
Aparo began playing in a group called Angie's Hope in the early 1990s before making the decision to go solo. After making that decision, Aparo chose to go out on the road touring with his acoustic guitar in the Southeast. In 1996, he released his first CD Out of the Everywhere, recorded at David Briggs Studio in Nashville, Tennessee with Jim Stabile as engineer. Burnard Tate played drums.
In 1999, with Grammy-winning producer Matt Serletic, Aparo released The American. His single, "Spaceship," hit the radio waves in 2000, and The American also includes his original version of the single "Cry", made popular by Faith Hill and featured on her album of the same name. Many songs from The American are also on a live CD 9Live that was released in 2004, from a performance for Atlanta radio station 99X, also featured on 99X Live X 6. Faith Hill's husband Tim McGraw also covered "Free Man" from The American. It was featured on an iTunes-only soundtrack release for an HBO documentary about the election of Barack Obama. [1]
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Ann Nesby
Ann Nesby is an American R&B, gospel, and dance music singer and actress. She is the former lead singer of Sounds of Blackness; a songwriter with credits including hits sung by Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight; plus she co-starred in the 2003 romance musical The Fighting Temptations with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles. Nesby had various appearances on the hit television series American Idol. Nesby has been nominated four times since her departure from the Sounds of Blackness, most recently for her 2007 album This Is Love; plus the lead single "I Apologize" was nominated for a Grammy at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Nesby joined Sounds of Blackness in the late 1980s. The Sounds of Blackness were awarded two Grammys in 1991 and 1993, and Nesby sang on a number of their tracks including "I Believe," "Optimistic," "I'm Going All The Way," "Soul Holiday," and "The Pressure."
In 1996 Nesby released her debut solo album, I'm Here for You. Her "Witness Ep peaked at #42 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1996.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
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Ayla Brown
Ayla Marie Brown (born July 28, 1988) is an American NCAA basketball player and recording artist from Wrentham, Massachusetts. She is also known for her American Idol showing placing in the Top 16 on season 5 in 2005/06. She is the elder daughter of United States Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and WCVB-TV reporter Gail Huff. Brown is also now a contributor for CBS's The Early Show, and the official singer for the Philadelphia 76ers.
Brown finished her high school career as one of the top female basketball players in Massachusetts history, scoring 2,358 career points. This made her the sixth place all-time leading scorer in Massachusetts basketball history, male or female. In addition, she is a two-time Gatorade Player of the Year and named as the top female basketball player in Massachusetts. Brown finished her senior season as the captain of the Noble and Greenough School girls' basketball team, missing her last few games to compete on the fifth season of American Idol.
Brown was scouted by the staff at Boston College beginning at the age of 15. She made a commitment to the school, and went on to attend BC on a full athletic scholarship as a Communications major. She played the forward position for the Boston College Eagles, wearing jersey number 1. Brown's nickname given to her by her teammates was "Downtown Ayla Brown" because of her ability to sink 3-pointers and lengthy shots and in reference to her father's college basketball nickname, "Downtown Scotty Brown".
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)."
In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis. He has recorded a string of Billboard hit singles and multi-platinum albums that have resulted in his being named Radio & Records number one Adult Contemporary artist and winning three straight American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist. Between 1974 - 1983 Manilow had three number 1 singles and 25 that reached the top 40. Several well-known entertainers have praised Manilow, including Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s saying, "He's next." In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, "Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you."
As well as producing and arranging albums for other artists, including Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick, Manilow has written songs for musicals, films, and commercials. From February 2005 to December 30, 2009, he was the headliner at the Las Vegas Hilton, performing hundreds of shows before ending his relationship with the hotel. From March 2010, he has headlined at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide.
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Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (née Beyoncé Giselle Knowles; September 4, 1981), known mononymously as Beyoncé ( /biˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say), is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003, which spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy"—and became one of the most successful albums of that year, earning her a then record-tying five Grammy Awards. Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Knowles released her second solo album, B'Day, in 2006, which spawned the top 10 singles "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Her third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), spawned the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Halo" and "Sweet Dreams". The album helped Knowles earn six Grammys in 2010, breaking the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. Knowles' fourth solo album, 4 (2011), became her fourth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 as a solo artist. This made her the third artist in history to have her first four studio albums debut atop the chart.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
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Bill Withers
William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded a number of hits such as "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands". His life was recently the subject of the documentary film Still Bill.
Withers was born the youngest of six children in the small coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia. Raised in nearby Beckley, West Virginia, Withers was twelve years old when his father died. He enlisted with the United States Navy at age eighteen and served for nine years, during which time he became interested in singing and writing songs. Soon after his discharge from the Navy in 1965, he relocated to Los Angeles in 1967 for a musical career.
Withers worked as an assembler for several different companies, including Douglas Aircraft Corporation, while recording demo tapes with his own money, shopping them around and performing in clubs at night. When he debuted with the song "Ain't No Sunshine" he refused to resign his job because of his belief that the music business was a fickle industry and that he was still a novice compared to other acts.
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording.
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her father, Clarence Halliday (Holiday), a musician, did not marry or live with her mother. Her mother had moved to Philadelphia when thirteen, after being ejected from her parents' home in Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore for becoming pregnant. With no support from her own parents, Holiday's mother arranged for the young Holiday to stay with her older married half sister, Eva Miller, who lived in Baltimore.
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Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was a musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. Preston became famous, first as a session musician with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and was later successful as a solo artist with such hit pop singles as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from Nothing", and a string of albums.
Alongside Tony Sheridan, Billy Preston was the only other musician to be credited on a Beatles recording after he was credited on the group's number-one hit, "Get Back", with the record title listed as The Beatles with Billy Preston. Steven Stills asked Preston if he could use Preston's phrase "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" in a song and created the legendary eponymous hit.
William Everett Preston was born on September 2, 1946 in Houston, Texas. At the age of three, the family moved to Los Angeles where Preston began playing piano while sitting on his mother Robbie's lap. Noted as a child prodigy, by the age of ten, Preston was playing organ onstage backing several gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland and Andrae Crouch. At twelve, he appeared in the W.C. Handy biopic starring Nat King Cole entitled, St. Louis Blues, playing W.C. Handy at a younger age. A year prior, Preston appeared on Cole's national TV show singing the Fats Domino hit, "Blueberry Hill".
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Blame It on the Sun
"Blame It on the Sun" is a song by the musician Stevie Wonder. "Blame It on the Sun" appeared for the first time on Stevie Wonder's 1972 album Talking Book. It also appeared as the B-Side to his Innervisions single "Don't You Worry 'bout A Thing". The two songwriters were Stevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright. Lani Groves and Jim Gilstrap provided the background vocals. In 1980, Wright herself covered the song on her self-titled album, Syreeta.
A version recorded by Ray Charles and George Michael was released on Charles' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.
Phil Collins recorded a version of the song for his album of soul covers, Going Back.
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Bo Bice
Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice, Jr. (born November 1, 1975) is an American singer and musician who placed second to Carrie Underwood in the fourth season of American Idol. He has recorded three studio albums, including one on RCA Records. In 2005, Bice charted at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a rendition of "Inside Your Heaven."
Bice was born in Huntsville, Alabama to Nancy and Harold Elwin Bice. Music is in his family; his mother was a gospel singer (as were his grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunts). His father and his third cousin, Tanner Gell, play guitar. His other third cousin, Tristen Gell sings.
Bice was nicknamed "Bogart" as a newborn by his grandmother ("Granny Madge") because she thought he had "Humphrey Bogart eyes". His family continued to call him Bogart, but when Bice was in kindergarten he shortened it to "Bo" because he didn't think Bogart was cool.
Bice's parents divorced when he was very young, and his mother remarried years later. Bice grew up with his mother and step-father, Nancy and Earle Downes (a Coca-Cola manager), step-sisters Jenny and Sharan Downes, and half-brother John Cohran. Bice has two other half-siblings, Candace and Matthew, on his biological father's side. The Downes family moved around the South frequently. They lived in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, including the metro area of Atlanta. In 1990 when Bice was 14 years old they moved to England, as part of his step-father's European assignment with Coca-Cola in London. Bice spent his teenage years living in Gerrards Cross.
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Bobbie Gentry
Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27, 1944), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American former singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.
Gentry shot to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s and has since lived privately in Los Angeles.
Gentry was born Roberta Streeter and is of English and Portuguese ancestry.[citation needed] She was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, to Robert and Ruby (Bullington) Streeter. She has an older brother, Robert Streeter, Jr. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth, and her mother moved to California. She was raised on her grandparents' farm in Chickasaw County. Her grandmother traded one of the family's milk cows for a neighbor's piano, and seven-year-old Bobbie composed her first song, "My Dog Sergeant Is a Good Dog". She attended school in Greenwood, Mississippi, and began teaching herself to play the guitar, bass, banjo, and vibes.
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
Raitt, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt and his first wife, pianist Marjorie Haydock, began playing guitar at an early age, something few of her high school female friends did. Later she would become famous for her bottleneck-style guitar playing. "I had played a little at school and at camp", she later recalled in a July 2002 interview. The camp Raitt refers to is Camp Regis-Applejack, located in the heart of the Adirondacks.
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Brian Dunkleman
Brian Dunkleman (born September 25, 1971, in Ellicottville, New York) is a comedian and actor. He is best known as being co-host with Ryan Seacrest on the first season of American Idol on the Fox Network.
Dunkleman began doing stand-up comedy in 1992, winning the title Buffalo’s Funniest New Comedian. Since then he’s also performed at HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, NBC’s Late Friday, and TBS’s Very Funny at the Laugh Factory. He has also appeared on The Tonight Show.[episode needed]
In 2002 Dunkleman appeared as the co-host with Ryan Seacrest during the first season of American Idol. After the season ended, it was reported that he had quit from co-hosting. Various news outlets later on said that he "had his career completely destroyed" for doing so, before it became enormously popular and made Seacrest very wealthy. However, one journalist believes that Dunkleman would have been fired had he not quit earlier.
During his 2008 appearance on the sixth season of the reality television weight loss show, Celebrity Fit Club on which he lost 15 pounds, and won the grand prize with his team, he spoke about his reasons for leaving American Idol following its first season. He stated his departure was due to the terrible way they treated the young contestants on the show, staging the fights between the judges and reshooting contestants with producer-provided glycerin tears in their eyes. He went on to say that leaving the show was a mistake. However, Ian K. Smith, one of the doctors on the panel, opined that he made the right decision.
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Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight (born June 5, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, and R&B musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays eight instruments including piano, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet.. McKnight is perhaps most recognized for his strong falsetto range, and is widely regarded as one of the strongest talents in the adult urban contemporary R&B genre, although his recent efforts have received mixed reviews.
McKnight's work has earned him 16 Grammy Awards nominations, but currently holds the record for having won none.
McKnight was born in Buffalo, New York. His musical career began in childhood when he became a member of his church choir and a band leader for his high school, Sweet Home High School..
In 1987, McKnight's older brother, Claude McKnight III, and his band, Take 6, signed a record deal with Warner Brothers. This encouraged McKnight to shop his own demo tapes and by the age of 19, he'd signed his first recording deal with Mercury Records subsidiary, Wing Records. In 1992, Brian McKnight was released, and his self-titled debut peaked at fifty-eight in the Billboard 200 chart, which primarily featured the ballad (and top twenty single) "One Last Cry". It was followed by two more albums for Mercury, 1995's I Remember You and 1997's Anytime. Anytime, McKnight's final album with Mercury, sold over two million copies and was nominated for a Grammy. The video for "Anytime", directed by Darren Grant, was nominated for Best Male Video at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Brianna Taylor
Brianna Taylor (born May 30, 1987) is a reality show personality, singer and songwriter, having appeared on both the fifth season of American Idol and The Real World: Hollywood, the twentieth season of MTV's long-running reality television series, The Real World. In 2008, she released her debut, self-titled EP, Brianna Taylor, on Chamberlain Records; according to that label's website, she is now signed to Universal Music.
Taylor is of African American, German, and Puerto Rican descent. Her mother, Yvonne, raised Brianna and her sister, Victoria, as a single mother. They lived first in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia before moving to Warrington Township.
Taylor attended Central Bucks High School East in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, graduating in 2005. She also attended Golden Slipper Camp for Boys and Girls. There is where she found her love for singing.
Taylor never took singing lessons; her grandmother acted as her vocal coach. After gaining experience singing at weddings and shopping malls, she auditioned for the popular singing competition, American Idol during that show's fifth season and reached the Top 44 before eventually being eliminated.
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Brooke Barrettsmith
Brooke Elizabeth Barrettsmith is an Christian pop/rock songwriter and musician from Spring Grove, Illinois. She was a former contestant of the reality television show American Idol during its fifth season in 2006.
Barrettsmith reached the top 40 on American Idol in 2006. She auditioned along her sister Leah, who was cut in Hollywood week. She is currently touring with Pillar, Wavorly, and Building 429 on the For the Love of the Game tour.
Her self-titled debut album was released on August 19, 2008. It was produced by Aaron Sprinkle (Jeremy Camp, Kutless, The Almost) on Essential Records.
She is schedule to headline a summer national tour in the middle months of 2010.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, OC OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.
Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.
Adams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with the 2,435th star in March 2011 and Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38 on the list of All-Time top artists by the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.
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Bucky Covington
William Joel "Bucky" Covington III (born November 8, 1977) is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album, produced by Mark Miller of the band Sawyer Brown, was released on April 17, 2007. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and produced three hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "A Different World" at number six, "It's Good to Be Us" at number eleven, and "I'll Walk" at number ten. Three more singles: "I Want My Life Back," "Gotta Be Somebody" and "A Father's Love (The Only Way He Knew How)," were released for an unreleased second album, titled I'm Alright.
Bucky Covington was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, to Gene Covington and Deborah Gates on November 8, 1977 - along with his identical twin brother, Robert David "Rocky" Covington. Bucky is the nickname derived from his grandfather "Buck". He graduated in the class of 1996 from Scotland High School in Laurinburg, NC. He worked at Covington's Body Shop in Hamlet, North Carolina.
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Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time".
Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline (Drake) Holley. In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.
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Busy signal
A busy signal (or busy tone or engaged tone) in telephony is an audible or visual signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection of that particular telephone call.
There are several distinctly different types of busy signals:
Many different countries have different signalling tones that act as "busy signals".
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Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American country singer, songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005. Underwood has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a winner of several Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards, a Golden Globe Award nominee, a three-time Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Female Vocalist winner, and a two-time ACM Entertainer of the Year. She is the first-ever female artist to win back-to-back Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards for Entertainer of the Year (2009/10). Underwood was inducted into and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2008. She was also inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2009.Billboard named Underwood Country Music's reigning Queen in 2012.
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Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC OQ, (French pronunciation: [selin djɔ̃] ( listen); born March 30, 1968), is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the English-language album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.
Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. Following a series of French albums in the early 1980s, she signed on to CBS Records Canada in 1986. During the 1990s, with the help of Angélil, she achieved worldwide fame after signing with Epic Records and releasing several English albums along with additional French albums, becoming one of the most successful artists in pop music history. However, in 1999 at the height of her success, Dion announced a hiatus from entertainment in order to start a family and spend time with her husband, who had been diagnosed with cancer. She returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed a three-year (later extended to almost five years) contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada.
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Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953), frequently known as the "Queen of Funk", is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus.
While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career. Her signature hits, both with Rufus and as a solo performer, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing" which she wrote for her then husband Richard Holland, "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
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Chris Daughtry
Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry (born December 26, 1979) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Daughtry and as the fourth-place contestant on the fifth season of American Idol, the competition that he was eliminated from on May 10, 2006. After his elimination from Idol, he was given a record deal by RCA Records and formed a band called Daughtry. Their self-titled debut album became the fastest selling debut rock album in history, selling more than one million copies after just five weeks of release. The album was recorded before the band was officially formed, making Chris Daughtry the only official member present on the album. This led some to believe mistakenly that the band Daughtry is Chris Daughtry's solo project.
In its ninth week of release, Daughtry reached number one on the Billboard charts. Chris Daughtry is now the third most successful American Idol contestant in terms of record sales, behind only Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, who both won their respective seasons. At the 50th Grammy Awards, the band was nominated for Best Rock Song for the single "It's Not Over".
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Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan (1998).
In 1999, Aguilera came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera, which was a commercial success spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." Her sophomore and her debut Latin-pop album, Mi Reflejo (2000), a Christmas third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and several collaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success, though she was displeased with her lack of input in her music and image. After parting from her management, Aguilera took creative control over her fourth studio album, Stripped (2002). The album's second single, "Beautiful", was a commercial success and helped the album's commercial performance amidst controversy over Aguilera's image. Aguilera followed up Stripped with the soul, jazz and blues inspired, Back to Basics (2006), released to positive critical acclaim. The album produced three singles "Ain't No Other Man", "Hurt" and "Candyman". Four years later Aguilera released her sixth studio album, Bionic (2010), which incorporated aspects of R&B, electropop, and synthpop and was met with mixed reviews and low sales. Aguilera's seventh studio album is set to be released in 2012.
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Cissy Houston
Emily "Cissy" Houston (born September 30, 1933) is a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Wishbone Ash and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist. She is mother to the late singer and actress Whitney Houston, aunt of Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick and a cousin of Leontyne Price.
Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey to Nitcholas and Delia Mae Drinkard (née McCaskill) who had seven older children: sons William, Hansom, Nicky, and Larry, and daughters Lee, Marie and Anne. Houston's father Nitcholas Drinkard was born to a part Dutch, part African-American, mother Susan Bell Drinkard (née Fuller) and a Native American father John Drinkard, Jr. The Drinkards owned a substantial amount of farmland in Blakely, Georgia during a time when it was unusual for blacks to own large portions of land. The asset was gradually depleted as small portions of the land were sold, over time, to resolve the continued legal troubles of a close relative.
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Clay Aiken
Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken (born November 30, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and author who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released in October 2003. He released four more albums on the RCA label: Merry Christmas with Love (2004), A Thousand Different Ways (2006), and the Christmas EP, All is Well (2006). His fourth studio album (the first album of original material since 2003's Measure of a Man), On My Way Here was released on May 6, 2008.
After the release of On My Way Here, Aiken left RCA and later signed with Decca Records. His first album with Decca, Tried and True, was released June 1, 2010 and his second Steadfast, was released March 26, 2012.
In the years following his American Idol appearance, Aiken has launched ten tours, authored a New York Times best-selling book Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life with Allison Glock, and was the executive producer for a 2004 televised Christmas special, A Clay Aiken Christmas and his televised live concert special in 2010 on PBS Tried & True Live!. He has been a frequent talk show guest, particularly on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He appeared as a guest star on Scrubs, Drop Dead Diva, 30 Rock and participated in comedy skits on numerous other shows.
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Crystal Bowersox
Crystal Lynn Bowersox (born August 4, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, who was the runner-up on the ninth season of American Idol. She is the third runner-up to never be in the bottom 3 in the Idol series, and the first female finalist in three years.
Bowersox's debut album, Farmer's Daughter, was released on December 14, 2010 on the Jive Records label.
Bowersox and her twin brother, Carl, were born in Elliston, Ohio. She attended Oak Harbor High School in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and later attended the Toledo School for the Arts in Toledo, Ohio. Bowersox performed her first professional gig at the age of 10. She appeared at local bars in Toledo, most popularly Papa's Tavern, and The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio. At the age of 17, she moved to Chicago looking for opportunity. She most commonly played as a busker at several train stations, including the Washington and Lake Redline stops. She frequented open mics, such as the Uncommon Ground Clark and Grace, and Devon locations. She also played extensively in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. In 2006, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs chose Bowersox to represent Chicago folk musicians in the Sister Cities program "Experience Chicago", held in Birmingham, England. In 2007, Bowersox traveled internationally on an independent small cafe tour, including Memphis, Tennessee, Oaxaca, Mexico, and Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey.
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Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel John Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is a New Zealand born British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.
In 1996, had success writing the theme tune for BBC One's DIY series Changing Rooms.
He released his first single, "Gotta Get Thru This" in November 2001. It gathered momentum on white label through the UK garage music scene, and went on to become a number one smash in the UK Top 40. He has since had two more number-one singles ("If You're Not The One" and "Never Gonna Leave Your Side"), as well as three further top 10 hits. His debut album, also titled Gotta Get thru This, which was recorded at home using Making Waves Audio software, reached number 2 in the UK albums chart and went on to sell more than 4 million copies worldwide[citation needed].
In 2004, Bedingfield won a BRIT Award for Best British Male Artist. He then moved to the Universal Music subsidiary label Polydor Records to release his second album, Second First Impression, which reached number 8 in the UK. The album sold poorly compared to his first offering, though it did include two UK Top 20 singles, "Nothing Hurts Like Love" which reached number 3, and "Wrap My Words Around You" which peaked at number 12. The third and final single, "The Way", became his first to miss the top 40, reaching number 41. The album was not released in the U.S.
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David Archuleta
David James Archuleta (born December 28, 1990) is an American pop singer-songwriter. At ten years old he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old, Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2. In 2007, at sixteen years old, he became one of the youngest contestants on the seventh season of American Idol. In May 2008 he finished as the runner-up, receiving 44 percent of over 97 million votes.
In August 2008 Archuleta released "Crush," the first single from his self-titled debut album. The album, released three months later, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart; it has sold over 750,000 copies in the U.S., and over 900,000 worldwide. In October 2010 he released a third album, The Other Side of Down featuring lead single "Something 'Bout Love". In 2011, Archuleta announced he is taking a two-year hiatus to be a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As of February 2012, Archuleta has sold 1,108,000 albums and 3,327,000 tracks in the United States.
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David Cook (singer)
David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol. Prior to Idol he released an independent album entitled Analog Heart, followed by his post-Idol major-label debut David Cook which was released on November 18, 2008 and has since been certified platinum by the RIAA. His second major album This Loud Morning was released on June 28, 2011.
Cook was born in Houston, Texas, raised in Blue Springs, Missouri, and currently owns homes in Kansas City, Missouri and Los Angeles, California. His parents are Beth Foraker (née Frye) and Stanley Cook. He is the middle of three brothers – Adam Cook being older and Andrew younger. He is of German, Irish, and English descent.
Cook's interest in music began at a young age. He began singing in second grade, when his elementary school music teacher gave him a part in a school Christmas performance. He proceeded to perform in virtually every Christmas and PTA program. He received his first guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, at the age of 13. He also participated in choir and drama programs in middle school and high school. At Blue Springs South High School, he performed in musicals, including The Music Man, West Side Story, and Singin' in the Rain. In addition to this, he was an active member in the Blue Springs South High School National Forensics League (or NFL), where he qualified for the national tournament twice for duo interpretation, an event that relies on performance and interpretation of a literary work.
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David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC (born November 1, 1949), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Céline Dion, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Braxton, Madonna, Air Supply and Michael Jackson. Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. David Foster is the current Chairman of Verve Music Group.
Throughout his career, he has produced recordings for a wide range of musical artists, including Bryan Adams, Tamia, Christina Aguilera, The Bee Gees, Andrea Bocelli, Boz Scaggs, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Chicago, Destiny's Child, Neil Diamond, Céline Dion, Earth Wind and Fire, Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Beyonce Knowles, Kenny Loggins, Madonna, Olivia Newton-John, Nsync, All-4-One, Plus One, Charice Pempengco, Prince, LeAnn Rimes, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Shania Twain, Hall & Oates, Tim Feehan, The Tubes, and Jackie Evancho.
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Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer-songwriter and pianist. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she enrolled in dancing, acting, singing and piano classes at a young age. She began her career as a child actress, starring in various television shows and rose to prominence in 2002 in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Nina Tucker.
Venturing into the music industry, Goodrem recorded an album entitled Delta through an independent label, which was never released due to legal reasons. Subsequently signing to Sony at the age of 15, she released her multi-platinum album Innocent Eyes which topped the Australian albums chart and UK Albums Chart. It became one of the highest selling albums in Australian history, with 4.5 million copies sold worldwide and all five of its singles— "Born to Try", "Lost Without You", "Innocent Eyes", "Not Me, Not I", and "Predictable"—reaching number one in Australia and three of them reaching the top ten in the UK. This gave her the record for becoming the first ever artist to have five Number 1 singles from a debut album.
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Diana DeGarmo
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987) is an American singer and Broadway actress.
She rose to fame in 2004, when she later became the runner-up of the third season of American Idol. After American Idol, DeGarmo began a career in musical theatre. DeGarmo also appeared on The Young and the Restless as Angelina Veneziano.
DeGarmo was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but was raised primarily in Snellville, Georgia. She has Italian, French, and Native American ancestry. DeGarmo began singing at a young age, including at the 1997 Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards and in Atlanta-based stage productions of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
DeGarmo took part in the third season of American Idol in 2004, finishing second after a close race with winner Fantasia Barrino. During her run in the Top 12, she was in the bottom 3 in the top 11, top 9, and top 8 weeks but never fell to the bottom 2. She became one of the front runners by week 6 and did not land in the bottom 3 again. She was 16 years old at the time she competed.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, record producer, and actress.
Diana Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that has included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. She has won seven American Music Awards, was honored with a 2012 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.
In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist in the charts with a career total of 18 number one records in the United States. Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
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Don McLean
Donald "Don" McLean (born October 2, 1945, New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".
Both McLean's grandfather and father were also named Donald McLean. The Buccis, the family of McLean's mother, Elizabeth, came from Abruzzo in central Italy. They left Italy and settled in Port Chester, New York, at the end of the 19th century. He has other extended family in Los Angeles and Boston.
As a teenager, McLean became interested in folk music, particularly the Weavers' 1955 recording At Carnegie Hall. Childhood asthma meant that McLean missed long periods of school, particularly music lessons, and although he slipped back in his studies, his love of music was allowed to flourish. He often performed shows for family and friends. By age 16 he had bought his first guitar (a Harmony acoustic archtop with a sunburst finish) and begun making contacts in the music business, becoming friends with folk singer Erik Darling, a latter-day member of the Weavers. McLean recorded his first studio sessions (with singer Lisa Kindred) while still in prep school.
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Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period.
Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.
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Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, April 3, 1924) is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", in 1945. After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, and included more than 650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.
With a legendary Hollywood "girl next door" image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards (World Film Favorite), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death and the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowed on him a special posthumous honor in 1999.
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Ella Johnson
Ella Johnson (June 22, 1919 – February 16, 2004) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues vocalist.
Born Ella Mae Jackson in Darlington, South Carolina, United States, she joined her brother Buddy Johnson in New York as a teenager, where he was leading a popular band at the Savoy Ballroom. Her singing drew comparisons to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.[citation needed]
Johnson scored her first hit with "Please, Mr. Johnson" in 1940. Subsequent hits included "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?", "When My Man Comes Home" and "Hittin' On Me". Her popular 1945 recording of "Since I Fell for You", composed by her brother, led to its eventual establishment as a jazz standard.
She continued to perform with Buddy Johnson into the 1960s. In February 2004, she died in of Alzheimer's disease in New York, at the age of 84.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( /dɨˈdʒɛnərəs/; born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award. She was a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. She has won thirteen Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.
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Elliott Yamin
Elliott Yamin who was born Efraym Elliott Yamin on July 20, 1978 to an Iraqi father and an American mother, is an American singer known for his hit single "Wait for You" and placing third on the fifth season of American Idol.
His self-titled album, released March 20, 2007, debuted at number one on the Billboard Independent Albums chart and at number three on the Billboard 200. The album was certified gold in the United States in October 2007. Retitled Wait for You, the album was released in Japan in May 2008 and certified gold in that country in September 2008.
Yamin also released two Christmas collections: Sounds of the Season: The Elliott Yamin Holiday Collection in October 2007 and My Kind of Holiday in October 2008.
Yamin's second album, titled Fight for Love, was released on May 5, 2009. The album's first single, "Fight for Love", premiered on AOL Music on February 13, 2009.
Yamin was born in Los Angeles, California, to father Shaul Yamin, an Israeli Jew of Iraqi Jewish descent, and mother Claudette Goldberg Yamin (d. March 31, 2008, age 65), a Jewish American of Ashkenazi descent and former professional singer known for her "fiery spirit" and for receiving the "Golden Idol for Proudest Family Moment Award" from Ryan Seacrest during her son's American Idol competition. His family relocated to Richmond, Virginia when Yamin was 11, and his parents divorced when he was 14, his father returning to Los Angeles. Yamin has an older half-sister on his mother's side, Jodi Queen, a married mother of two children and a younger brother, Scott Yamin, in pharmacy school at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
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Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30, 1984), commonly known simply as Fantasia, is an American R&B singer and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004. Following her victory, she released her debut single, "I Believe", which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Subsequently, she released her debut album, Free Yourself, which went on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA and garnered Barrino three Grammy nominations in 2006.
In 2006, she released her second album, Fantasia, which featured the single "When I See U" which topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for eight weeks. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA and received three Grammy nominations in 2008. She then played the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, for which she won a 2007 Theatre World Award. Her third studio album, Back to Me, was released worldwide on August 24, 2010 and features the single "Bittersweet," which peaked in the top ten on the R&B chart. The single won her a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. As of February 2012, Barrino has sold 2,842,000 albums and 1,425,000 tracks in the United States.
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire". Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.
Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868, as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz). Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism.
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Freda Payne
Freda Charcilia Payne (born September 19, 1942) is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She was also an actress in musicals and film, as well as the host of a TV talk show. Freda is the older sister of former Supreme Scherrie Payne.
Payne was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up listening to different jazz singers, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts; she soon began singing radio commercial jingles, and took part in (and won many of) local TV and radio talent shows.
In 1963, she moved to New York City and worked with many different entertainers, including Quincy Jones, Pearl Bailey, and Bill Cosby. The next year, her debut album, a jazz recording entitled After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!!, was released on the Impulse! label. (This album was re-issued on CD in Japan in early 2002, and again in the United States in 2005.) Three years later, she released her second album (another jazz effort) How Do You Say I Don't Love You Anymore, for MGM Records. She also made occasional guest appearances on different television shows including The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Gail Huff
Gail Huff is a American broadcast journalist and television reporter for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C..
Huff worked for seventeen years for WCVB-TV, Channel 5, the ABC network affiliate in Boston, and the wife of Scott Brown, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Huff's broadcast journalism career began in Greenville, North Carolina in 1984 where she anchoring newscasts at WNCT-TV. In 1986, she joined WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island as a general assignment reporter. She then went on to the same position at WFSB-TV, in Hartford, Connecticut in 1989. All three TV stations were CBS affiliates.
Huff was employed as a reporter at WCVB since 1993, working the 3-10 A.M. shift, while her daughters, Arianna and Ayla Brown were growing up. During Brown's campaign, Huff stayed away from news assignments that may have affected her husband's election prospects, and never appeared at campaign events until Brown's victory speech on January 20, 2010. She resigned her position at WCVB six months later, citing family considerations. Later in 2010, she took a position with WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C..
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Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience.
Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s. Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68,561,000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era (since 1991), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles. Furthermore, according to RIAA he is the second best-selling solo albums artist in the United States of all time behind Elvis Presley (overall is third to the Beatles and Elvis Presley) with 128 million units sold. Brooks has released six albums that achieved diamond status in the United States, those being: Garth Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin' the Wind (14× platinum), The Hits (10× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum) and Double Live (21× platinum). Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include; 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets, along with 77 singles. He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy Awards, 16 American Music Awards (not including the poll of "Artist of the '90s") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States. As of 2010, Brooks' world-wide sales now exceed 190 million albums, singles and videos.
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Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Shane DeGraw (born February 4, 1977) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is known for his songs "Chariot", "Follow Through", "I Don't Want to Be" (which has been featured as the theme song for the television drama series, One Tree Hill since 2003), "In Love with a Girl", and "Not Over You".
DeGraw grew up in the Catskills in South Fallsburg, New York. His mother, Lynne (Krieger), was a detox specialist, and his father, Wayne DeGraw, was a prison guard; he referenced his father's occupation in the song "I Don't Want to Be". His father is of Irish descent and his mother's family was of Russian ancestry. DeGraw began singing and playing piano at the age of eight. He also has two siblings, both older, named Neeka and Joey (born August 1973). It was at his brother's advice that he began writing his own songs.Joey DeGraw is a musician as well, currently touring to promote his own music.
DeGraw rose to fame in 2003 when "I Don't Want to Be" was chosen as the theme song for teen drama One Tree Hill. The song has also been performed on American Idol and Idol Sweden by various contestants during different seasons.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper", was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. In a close and controversial election, Bush was elected President in 2000 as the Republican candidate, defeating Vice President Al Gore in the Electoral College. Bush is the second American president to have been the son of a former president. He is also the brother of Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.
Terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush's first term as president on September 11, 2001. In response, Bush announced the War on Terror, an international military campaign which included the war in Afghanistan launched in 2001 and the war in Iraq launched in 2003. In addition to national security issues, Bush promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, and social security reform. He signed into law broad tax cuts, the PATRIOT Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and Medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors. His tenure saw national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and enhanced interrogation techniques. His administration also withdrew the U.S. from a some international treaty processes, including the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.
Overall, Wilson has charted 13 singles on the Billboard country charts, of which five have reached Top Ten: the Number One "Redneck Woman", as well as "Here for the Party" (#3, 2004), "When I Think About Cheatin'" (#4, 2004), "Homewrecker" (#2, 2005), and "All Jacked Up" (#8, 2005). The album Here for the Party was certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for sales of five million copies, while All Jacked Up was certified platinum. She has sold over 6 million records worldwide.
Gretchen Wilson was born in Pocahontas, Illinois, to a sixteen-year-old mother. Her father left before she was two years old, and she and her mother lived in trailer parks and relative poverty. Wilson's mother worked as a waitress, and Wilson herself, dropped out of the 9th grade at age fifteen to work as a cook and bartender in rural Illinois.
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Hank Snow
Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. This total includes the number 1 hits "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket", "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", and "Hello Love" as well as other top ten hits. He is a member of both the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music Hall of Fame.
Snow was born in Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He ran away from home to escape a brutal stepfather when he was 12 years old and joined a fishing boat as a cabin boy. When he was 14, he ordered his first guitar from an Eaton's department store catalogue for $5.95, and played his first show in a church basement in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia at age 16. He then sang in local clubs in and around Halifax. He married Minnie Blanche Aalders in 1935 and had one son, Rev. Jimmy Rodgers Snow.
A successful appearance on Halifax radio station CHNS led to Snow's audition with RCA Victor in Montreal, Quebec. In 1936, he signed with the label, staying for more than 45 years. A weekly CBC radio show brought him national recognition and, using the name, Hank, The Yodeling Ranger, and he began touring Canada until the late 1940s when American country music stations began playing his records.
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I Believe to My Soul
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). After the series ended in 1957, however, a modified version continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
I Love Lucy was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld). I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.
The show was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, and won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it ranked second on TV Guide's list of television's greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME."I Love Lucy remains hugely popular today; more than 60 years after its debut, it is still seen by 40 million Americans each year.
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James Ingram
James Ingram (born February 16, 1952, Akron, Ohio) is an American soul musician. He is best known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. Additionally, he is a producer and songwriter.
Born in 1952, Ingram lived with his mother and father until he was 10, then moved in with his grandmother.
In 1981, Ingram provided the vocals to "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways" on Quincy Jones's album The Dude. He won a Grammy award for best R&B vocal performance for his work on this album. Ingram's debut album, It's Your Night, appeared in 1983, including the ballad "There's No Easy Way." He also worked with other notable R&B artists such as Ray Charles, Anita Baker, Viktor Lazlo, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, and Kenny Rogers. In October, 1990, he scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the love ballad "I Don't Have the Heart", from his It's Real album.
But Ingram was best known throughout the decade for his hit collaborations. He went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Feb. 1983 with Patti Austin on "Baby, Come to Me", a song made popular on TV's General Hospital. A second Austin–Ingram duet, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?", was featured in the movie Best Friends and earned an Oscar nomination. A few years later, he won a 1985 Grammy Award for "Yah Mo B There", a duet with Michael McDonald. And he teamed up with Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes for the Top 40 ballad "What About Me?" in 1984. In 1985, he participated in the charity single "We Are the World".
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Jennifer Holiday
Jennifer-Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960, Riverside, Texas) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls showstopper and Grammy Award-winning R&B/Pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." She is also known as the Queen Of Broadway Gospel.
Jennifer landed her first big role on Broadway in 1979. At age 19, she landed a part the same day she auditioned for the Broadway production of Your Arms Too Short to Box with God. Her performance in that musical earned her a 1981 Drama Desk nomination. Her next role, which she began to act at 21, was the role for which she became best known: the role of Effie Melody White in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Jennifer originated the role of Effie and remained with the show for nearly four years after its December 20, 1981 opening. Her performance in the role was widely acclaimed, particularly in her iconic performance of the musical number that ends Act I, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."
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Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol, coming in seventh place. She made her film debut in the 2006 film Dreamgirls, which won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She won a Grammy Award for her eponymous debut album, Jennifer Hudson, which was released in 2008 on Arista Records and was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over 800,000 copies in the US; sales exceeded 1 million copies worldwide. Additionally, it spawned the hit single Spotlight. Her second album, I Remember Me, was released in March 2011, and reached number two on the Billboard 200, selling 165,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was certified gold by the RIAA, for shipping over 500,000 copies in the US.
In late 2008, after Hudson's mother, brother and nephew were killed in a shooting, Hudson stepped out of the limelight for three months. Hudson resumed her public appearances in 2009, and has since performed at the Super Bowl XLIII, the Grammy Awards, American Idol, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Hudson has been described as a friend of President Barack Obama, who invited her to appear with him at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills in May 2009. She also performed at the White House at the "Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" event. Her vocal range is mezzo-soprano. Hudson has sold 1,280,000 albums and 2,237,000 tracks in the United States as of February 2012.
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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American actress, businesswoman, dancer and recording artist. Often referred to as J.Lo, she is reportedly the highest earning actress of Latin descent. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, she enrolled in singing and dancing classes as a child and grew up in a musically influenced household. She started her career as a fly girl on the television comedy program In Living Color and a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson. Lopez gained recognition in the action-thriller Money Train (1995). Her first leading role was in the biographical film Selena (1997), which was her breakthrough role, earning her an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress and Golden Globe nomination. She earned her second ALMA Award for her performance in Out of Sight (1998), which made her the highest-paid Latin actress. She has since appeared in various films including The Cell (2000), The Wedding Planner (2001), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), Monster-in-Law (2005), The Back-up Plan (2010) and What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012).
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Jimmy Iovine
James "Jimmy" Iovine (last name pronounced Eye-o-Veen; born March 11, 1953) is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.
Born in Brooklyn, Iovine began his career as a recording engineer in the mid-1970s, working with Raspberries, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. He went on to produce albums for U2 (Rattle & Hum), Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Golden Earring, Simple Minds, Dire Straits, Flame (featuring Marge Raymond, Jimmy Crespo, Bob Leone, and others), and Patti Smith. Iovine established Interscope Records in 1991 with the release of Gerardo's Mo' Ritmo. It went on to become Interscope-Geffen-A&M following Universal's acquisition of PolyGram when Iovine was named co-chairman; in 2001, he became chairman.
He is credited with having given Eminem's demo tape to Dr. Dre, who signed him to his Aftermath label. In 2002, Iovine co-produced the hit Eminem movie 8 Mile and in 2004, he and Paul Rosenberg signed a first look deal with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films for their Interscope/Shady/Aftermath banner. Iovine co-produced the first film under the deal, Get Rich or Die Tryin', starring 50 Cent. In 2003, he was co-executive producer of Enrique Iglesias's album Seven. In January 2008, Iovine, Dr. Dre and Monster Cable released Beats by Dr. Dre high-performance headphones. Iovine is also an executive producer with LeBron James and Maverick Carter of the documentary More Than A Game, which was released in the fall of 2009.
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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an English rock and blues singer, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of the Beatles.
He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his #1 hit "Up Where We Belong", a duet he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
Cocker was born on 20 May 1944 at 38 Tasker Road, Crookes, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He is the youngest son of a civil servant, Harold Cocker, and Madge Cocker. According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing a childhood game called "Cowboy Joe" or from a local window cleaner named Joe.
Cocker's main musical influences growing up were Ray Charles and Lonnie Donegan. Cocker's first experience singing in public was at age 12 when his elder brother Victor invited him on stage to sing during a gig of his skiffle group. In 1960, along with three friends, Cocker formed his first group, the Cavaliers. For the group's first performance at a youth club, they were required to pay the price of admission before entering. The Cavaliers eventually broke up after a year and Cocker left school to become an apprentice gasfitter while he pursued a career in music.
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John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. Throughout his life Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed. He performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his enthusiasm for music, and relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts including country & western, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, in all earning him 12 gold and 4 platinum albums with his signature songs "Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Rocky Mountain High", "Annie's Song", and "Calypso".
Denver further starred in films and several notable television specials in the 1970s and 1980s. In the following decades he continued to record, but also focused on calling attention to environmental issues, lent his vocal support to space exploration, and testified in front of Congress to protest censorship in music. He is known for his love of the state of Colorado, which he sang about numerous times. He lived in Aspen, Colorado, for much of his life, and influenced the governor to name him Poet Laureate of the state in 1974. The Colorado state legislature also adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its state songs in 2007. He was an avid pilot, and died while flying his personal aircraft at the age of 53. Denver was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
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Jordin Sparks
Jordin Brianna Sparks (born December 22, 1989) is an American pop / R&B recording artist, songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol. She hails from Glendale, Arizona. Sparks won when she was 17 years old, making her the youngest winner in Idol history and remains the last female to win American Idol. She followed her American Idol victory with the release of her self-titled debut album in 2007, which has gone platinum in the U.S. and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Sparks' single, "No Air" is the highest-selling single by any American Idol contestant, selling over 3 million digital copies in the U.S. and Canada. Due to the success of her debut album and its four top 20 singles, she has received numerous awards and nominations including an American Music Award in 2008 and her first Grammy nomination in 2009. In 2009, Billboard magazine's 91st-best-selling music artist of the 2000–2009 decade.
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Josh Gracin
Joshua Mario "Josh" Gracin (born October 18, 1980) is a country music singer. A former member of the United States Marine Corps, he first gained public attention as the fourth-place finalist on the second season of the Fox Networks talent competition American Idol.
After his elimination from the show, Gracin completed his service in the Marine Corps and after his honorable discharge, he signed a record deal with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album was released in 2004. It produced a Number One hit, "Nothin' to Lose", and two more Top Five hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. His second album, We Weren't Crazy, followed in 2008. This album also produced five more chart singles, including a Top Ten in its title track.
Gracin was born on October 18, 1980 and raised in Westland, Michigan to parents Mario and Brenda Gracin. He has four sisters, Stacy, April, Melissa and Kristen. He grew up listening to Elvis, the Beatles and the vintage rock and pop on a favorite station locally. When he was 11, the station changed its format to country, and he began listening to artists such as Garth Brooks, Joe Diffie, George Strait and Randy Travis , who immediately caught his interest.“There’s not another genre that better reflects situations in my life,” Josh said. Josh's vocal debut was in an Easter musical presented by his local church. His first public appearance was at an eighth grade talent competition where he sang Brooks' 1993 hit "Standing Outside the Fire" and easily won over an audience full of more traditional dance music-loving cohorts .
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Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country. To date, he has sold over 24 million albums worldwide, and is the top selling classical artist of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Groban originally studied acting, but as his voice changed, it developed into a "significant instrument". Groban attended the Los Angeles High School for the Arts, a free public school where students received a conservatory-style education. His life changed when his vocal coach, Seth Riggs, submitted a tape of Josh singing "All I Ask of You", from The Phantom of the Opera, to Riggs' friend, producer, composer and arranger David Foster. Foster called him to stand in for an ailing Andrea Bocelli to rehearse a duet, "The Prayer," with Celine Dion at the rehearsal for the Grammy Awards in 1998.Rosie O'Donnell immediately invited him to appear on her talk show. Foster asked him to sing at the California Governor's Gray Davis' 1999 inauguration. He was cast on Ally McBeal by the show's creator, David E. Kelley, performing "You're Still You" for the 2001 season finale.
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
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Justin Guarini
Justin Guarini (born Justin Eldrin Bell; October 28, 1978) is an American singer/songwriter and actor who rose to fame in 2002 as the first runner-up on the debut season of the television show American Idol.
Guarini was born in Columbus, Georgia. His father, Eldrin Bell, is African American, and is a former Atlanta, Georgia, Chief of Police, and current Chairperson of Clayton County Commission (Georgia). His mother, Kathy Pepino Guarini, is Italian American, and was a journalist for WTVM TV in Columbus, and later for CNN. Guarini was raised by his mother and stepfather, physicist Jerry Guarini, in Philadelphia's suburb of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Guarini's musical experience started at the age of four when he was accepted by the Atlanta Boy Choir. After moving to Pennsylvania in 1985, he joined the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Boys Choir. Throughout his school years Guarini sang in school choirs, and from 1996-2000 was the lead soloist in an award winning a cappella group named The Midnight Voices. The group released an independent album in 1999 with proceeds benefiting a music scholarship fund at Guarini's alma mater, Central Bucks High School East in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was a director/performer at the Riverside Haunted Woods in Bridgeton, Pennsylvania in 2001.
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Kara DioGuardi
Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi ( /ˈkærə diːɵˈɡwɑrdi/; born December 9, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159 million albums worldwide. DioGuardi is a Grammy nominated writer, 2011 NAMM Music For Life Award winner, 2009 NMPA Songwriter Icon Award winner, 2007 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, and has received 15 BMI Awards for co-writing the most performed songs on the radio.
DioGuardi served as a judge on American Idol for its eighth and ninth seasons. Her contract was not renewed for the next season. In 2008 she was appointed to the position of executive vice president of talent development at Warner Bros. Records, and has signed acts such as Jason Derülo and Iyaz. In 2011, she was a head judge on the Bravo singer-songwriter competition series Platinum Hit.
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Katharine McPhee
Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006, eventually finishing as the runner-up.
Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007 and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200; it has sold 381,000 copies to date. The album's first single, "Over It", was a Pop Top 30 hit and was certified gold in 2008.
Her second album, Unbroken, was released on Verve Forecast Records on January 5, 2010 and debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200. The album featured the single "Had It All", which peaked at number 22 on the Billboard AC chart. It has sold 45,000 copies to date. Her third album, the holiday-themed Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You, was released on October 12, 2010. The album debuted at number eleven on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart while the single "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard AC chart. The album has sold 23,000 copies to date.
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Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is a Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Records and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts.
Still signed to Capitol, he made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it also produced his first American Number One in "But for the Grace of God". His breakthrough hit was the Number One "Somebody Like You", from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002). This album also earned Urban his first Grammy Award win for "You'll Think of Me", its fourth single and the fourth Billboard Number One of his career. 2004's Be Here, his third American album, produced three more Number Ones, and became his highest-selling album, earning 4× Multi-Platinum certification. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, producing the record-setting No.17 country chart debut of "Once in a Lifetime", as well as Urban's second Grammy for the song "Stupid Boy", while a Greatest Hits package entitled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. This album was re-released a year later as Greatest Hits: 19 Kids with one track added: the number one "You Look Good in My Shirt", which he had previously recorded on Golden Road. Additional albums Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010, respectively.
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Kellie Pickler
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music artist and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol, eventually finishing in sixth place. In 2006, she signed to 19 Recordings and BNA Records as a recording artist, releasing her debut album, Small Town Girl, later that year. To date, it has sold over 800,000 copies. The album, which was certified gold by the RIAA, produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Red High Heels" at number fifteen, "I Wonder" at number fourteen, and "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind" at number sixteen. She released her self-titled second album in Fall 2008 and has produced the singles "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" at number twenty-one, "Best Days of Your Life" at number nine (which she co-wrote with Taylor Swift and her first Top 10 hit), "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" at number fourteen, and "Makin' Me Fall in Love Again" at number thirty. In 2012, she was ranked as the 14th best American Idol alumna.
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Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter and occasional actress. Clarkson came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and later was the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.
In 2003, Clarkson released her debut album, Thankful, which was a commercial success and established herself in the pop music industry. The release of its first single, "A Moment Like This" (2002), broke The Beatles' record for the biggest leap to number one, from 52, in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. After parting ways with her management, Clarkson developed a more rock-oriented music with the release of her critically acclaimed sophomore album, Breakaway (2004), which sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and which garnered Clarkson more worldwide success as a pop rock artist. The album's single, "Because of You" (2005), became the best-selling single by an Idol contestant worldwide. In 2007, Clarkson took full creative control for her third album My December, which had a more rock-inspired sound and was met with controversy and moderate success. Clarkson later returned to a more pop-oriented sound with All I Ever Wanted (2009), which became a commercial and critical success. The album's lead single, "My Life Would Suck Without You" (2009), surpassed "A Moment Like This"'s record for the biggest leap to number one on a single week in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, a milestone it still holds today. Furthermore, it also became her first number one single in the United Kingdom. Clarkson's fifth studio album, Stronger, was released in 2011, containing elements from synthpop, R&B and country music. The album's single, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (2012), became her longest number one single and eventually became her best-selling single in the United States.
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Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, he has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.
Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny, are featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever". He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People. He has received numerous such awards as the AMAs, Grammys, ACMs and CMAs, as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003.
Later success includes the 2006 album release, Water & Bridges, an across the board hit, that peaked at #5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting high in the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "I Can't Unlove You," was also a chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, the following year he completed a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, telling BBC Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright his favorite hit was "The Gambler". He has also acted in a variety of movies and television shows, most notably the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler and the MacShayne series as well as his appearance on The Muppet Show.
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Kevin Covais
Kevin Patrick Covais ( /kɵˈveɪz/; born May 30, 1989) is a fifth-season American Idol finalist from Levittown, New York. He was the second finalist eliminated from the competition on March 22, 2006, making him the eleventh-place finalist. He is also an actor in the movie College.
Covais was born and raised in Levittown, New York, on Long Island. He is the son of John Covais, a retired sheriff, and Patty Covais. He is the youngest of three. He has two siblings, a sister (Kathleen) and a brother (John). Covais was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age eleven and receives insulin injections, like his fellow contestant, Elliott Yamin.
Covais started singing at the age of 10 and has taken voice lessons for four years. Covais has stated that Brian McKnight and American Idol Season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson are favorite singers of his. In the future, he plans to pursue a career in singing, acting, or journalism.
Covais was a junior at Island Trees High School during his Idol run; he graduated at the end of the 2006-07 school year. He is a former student of Island Trees Middle School. He is a member of the Drama Club and has played the lead in several school plays including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Godspell, and Guys and Dolls; he is also a member of the Metropolitan Youth Chorale and the National Honor Society. In the 2005-06 school year, he won the lead in the school's musical, Anything Goes but had to leave for American Idol. He also won some competitions outside of school, such as Eisenhower Park's Reach for the Stars in 2003. He is also a fan of the New York Yankees, the New York Knicks, the New York Jets, and has followed many other teams.
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Lauren Alaina
Lauren Alaina (born Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth; November 8, 1994) is an American country singer from Rossville, Georgia. Alaina was the runner-up on the tenth season of American Idol. Her debut studio album, Wildflower was released on October 11, 2011.
Alaina was born on November 8, 1994, to Kristy and J.J. Suddeth of Rossville, Georgia. Her father works as a process technician in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Alaina is a strong Christian and often states that she lives for Jesus Christ.
Alaina was inspired to sing by her cousin, Holly Witherow, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Prior to Idol, Alaina worked at CiCi's Pizza. She attended Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she was a cheerleader. Alaina performed at several Chattanooga-area venues and was the first winner of the WinniSTAR youth talent contest at Lake Winnepesaukah amusement park in 2009. In addition to performing, Alaina wrote several songs including "Leaving" and "Set Me Free".
Alaina auditioned for the tenth season of American Idol in Nashville, Tennessee. From early on, Alaina was a judge favorite. After her audition, Idol judge Steven Tyler stated "We found the one." May 14, 2011 was proclaimed "Lauren Alaina Day" in her hometown of Rossville, Georgia. During the season finale, Alaina sang "Before He Cheats" with her idol, Carrie Underwood. On May 25, 2011, Alaina was declared the runner-up.
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LeAnn Rimes
Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982), best known as LeAnn Rimes, is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Bill Mack song "Blue" when she was 13 to become the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.
Rimes made her breakthrough into country music in 1996 with her debut album, Blue, which reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart and was certified multiplatinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's eponymous leadoff single, "Blue," was originally intended to be recorded by Patsy Cline in the early 1960s. It became a Top 10 hit and Rimes gained national acclaim for her similarity to Cline's vocal style. When she released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.
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Lee DeWyze
Leon James "Lee" DeWyze, Jr. (born April 2, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter from Mount Prospect, Illinois, and the winner of the ninth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol, DeWyze had a solo career and formed the Lee DeWyze Band. He had also released two independent albums called So I'm Told in 2007 and Slumberland in 2010, both on WuLi Records. His post-Idol album Live It Up was released on November 16, 2010, through 19 Entertainment and RCA Records. WuLi Records, citing demand from DeWyze's fan base, plans to release a third album of pre-Idol recordings, What Once Was, on February 14, 2012.
DeWyze was born in Mount Prospect, Illinois, the eldest son of Kathleen (née Donahue) and Leon (Lee) DeWyze, Sr., who worked as a postal carrier in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He has two older sisters, Shannon and Sarah, and a younger brother, Michael. His musical influences include Cat Stevens, Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, and Simon & Garfunkel.
DeWyze attended St. James Catholic Elementary School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Illinois, up until his senior year, due to too many unserved detention hours. After leaving Prospect High, he attended Forest View Alternative School in Arlington Heights, having been inspired both by his teachers and his interest in music to return to his studies. While he never graduated from either high school, he eventually got his GED.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music.
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, he began playing piano at the age of four. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this time he was already performing at Tulsa nightclubs. After moving to Los Angeles, he became a session musician, working as a pianist on the recordings of many notable musical artists since the 1960s. By the late 1960s, Russell diversified, becoming successful as an arranger and wrote/co-wrote songs. As a musician, he worked his way from gigs as a sideman to well known performers. By 1970 he had graduated to solo recording artist, although he never ended all his previous roles within the music industry.
Russell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, March 14, 2011, at a black-tie dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
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Lisa Tucker (singer)
Lisa Gabrielle Tucker (born June 13, 1989) is an American singer, musical theater and television actress who was the tenth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol.
Tucker was born in Anaheim, California to Stanley and Eleanor Tucker, and has two older brothers: Billy and Stanley III. Both of her brothers were backup singers and choreographers for Tucker's sold-out concert in 2002.
Her mother first noticed her talent when she was on the family diving board singing a tune from The Little Mermaid. Tucker is also a songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and is learning to play the drums.
Tucker attended La Palma's John F. Kennedy High School. She was a Senior during Idol and returned to John F. Kennedy High after she was voted off. Tucker was encouraged by her parents to audition for a production of The Little Princess at Orange County Children's Theater (OCCT). Despite the fact it was her first audition, she landed the lead role. At the age of ten, Tucker was referred by OCCT to Walt Disney Productions, who cast her as young Nala for the musical production of The Lion King. It was her first paying job and Tucker said, "I would have done it for free!" Tucker played Nala for 11 months but had to stop due to child labor laws and contract limitations for minors. When Tucker was 13, she auditioned for Star Search and eventually made it to the finals. She was the runner-up to Tiffany Evans.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a strong supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.[citation needed]
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Mandisa
Mandisa Hundley (born October 2, 1976) is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.
Mandisa Lynn Hundley was born and raised in Citrus Heights, California. After graduating from El Camino Fundamental High School, she attended American River College in Sacramento where she studied Vocal Jazz. Then she studied at Fisk University in Tennessee and graduated with a bachelor's of music degree with a concentration in vocal performance.
Mandisa auditioned for the United States talent competition show American Idol in Chicago. She referred to herself as "just Mandisa," thus was billed simply as Mandisa on the show. She stated that her musical influences run the gamut from Whitney Houston to Def Leppard.
Idol judge Simon Cowell made several comments about Mandisa's weight after her successful audition. He first quipped are we "going to have a bigger stage this year. Then, when Paula Abdul commented that Mandisa had a "Frenchie" growl to her voice, Cowell responded that a more apt comparison would be to France itself. These were among comments that drew the ire of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, (NAAFA) and would be one of the reasons Mandisa would entitle her 2007 album True Beauty.
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey. The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records, including Emotions (1991), Music Box (1993) and Merry Christmas (1994), established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. Daydream (1995), made music history when the second single, "One Sweet Day" a duet with Boyz II Men, spent a record sixteen weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, and remains the longest running number one song in US chart history. During the recording of the album Carey began to deviate from her pop background, and slowly traversed into R&B and Hip-hop. After her separation from Mottola, this musical change was evident with the release of Butterfly (1997).
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Martina McBride
Martina McBride (born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer and songwriter. McBride has been called the "Céline Dion of Country Music" for her big-voiced ballads and soprano range.
McBride was signed to RCA Records in 1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, "The Time Has Come." It was not until 1997, when she released her fourth album, Evolution, that she broke through into the country music industry with a new pop-styled crossover sound, similar to that of Faith Hill and Shania Twain. From that point on, McBride has had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart. Five of these singles went to No. 1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003.
McBride has recorded a total of nine studio albums, one greatest hits compilation, one "live" album, a Christmas compilation, as well as two additional compilation albums. Seven of her studio albums and two of her compilations have received an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U.S. she has sold over 14 million albums. In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" award four times (tied with Reba McEntire for the most wins) and the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" award three times.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
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Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige ( /ˈblaɪʒ/; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional rapper and actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B.
Blige started her musical career in 1992, releasing her debut album, What's the 411? on MCA Records and Uptown. With her tenth album, My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1) (2011), she had ten consecutive albums debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Blige's work has defined the course of R&B/Hip-Hop music. My Life, in particular, is considered among the greatest albums ever recorded according to Rolling Stone (279/500),Time, and Vibe. For her part in combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s and its subsequent commercial success, Blige received the World Music Awards "Legends Award". In 2007 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded her its "Voice of Music" Award. ASCAP official Jeanie Weems stated that "[Blige's] music has been the voice of inspiration to women worldwide in both struggle and triumph." That same year, Time included her in its "Time 100" list, a collection of the year's 100 most influential individuals around the world. In a documentary by BET television, Mary J. Blige said that when she hears music, she sees colors. In other words she has Synesthesia.
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Mary Mary
Mary Mary is an American gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell (born (1972-04-29)April 29, 1972) and Tina Atkins-Campbell (born (1974-05-02)May 2, 1974). The duo are often credited along with Kirk Franklin for broadening the fan base of urban contemporary gospel in the 2000s by introducing elements of soul music, hip hop, funk and jazz. Mary Mary broke onto the music scene with their popular song "Shackles (Praise You)"—which is considered one of the pioneering songs of urban contemporary gospel music.
Their debut album Thankful (2000) was certified Platinum. The duo has released three Gold albums: Incredible (2002), and Mary Mary (2005), which all charted No. 1 on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums. They have also received three Grammys, among other awards.
The sisters were born Erica Monique Atkins and Tina Evette Atkins. The Atkins sisters grew up as part of a large family of nine children in Inglewood, California. Their parents are mother, Thomasina, an evangelist and choir director at the Evangelistic Church of God in Christ, and father, Eddie, a youth minister.
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Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies. After more than 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time.
Although he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and earned a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" on the latter album, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native US. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for the number of weeks overall spent on the charts. He ranked 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and activist.
Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals. She has also been an iconic gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993.
Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, the younger of two girls, to John Etheridge, a psychology teacher at Leavenworth High School, and Elizabeth Williamson, a computer consultant. She attended David Brewer School, which is still located at 17th and Osage Streets. She graduated in 1979 from Leavenworth High School (LHS), 10th Avenue and Halderman. Etheridge was a member of the first "Power and Life" musical/dance group at LHS which is still active today. Her childhood home was at 1902 Miami Street.
Etheridge's interest in music began early; she picked up her first guitar at 8. She began to play in all-men country music groups throughout her teenage years, until she moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music.
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Melissa Sgambelluri
Melissa Sgambelluri (born 1984 in New York) is an American actress, dancer,and singer, most famous for her appearances on American Idol Seasons 5 and 6 as the "fountain girl". She was raised in the Capital District and now lives in New York City.
Sgambelluri acted in local theater in Albany's Washington Park, and was a runner-up for the Albany Tulip Queen beauty contest. She attended Bishop Maginn High School and the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. She was the opening act for American Idol Season 4 runner-up Bo Bice, and sang locally at other gigs in the Capital District of New York, while also working as a receptionist at a hair stylist's boutique.
In 2006, Sgambelluri unsuccessfully tried out for Season 5 of the American television reality show, American Idol; she returned in 2007 for Season 6 auditions.
Sgambelluri appeared in the first few minutes of the "Best of the Rest" episode of American Idol Season 6, where she sang Christina Aguilera's Ain't No Other Man and Ira Gershwin's Someone to Watch Over Me. She also appeared in the opening credits and a promo that season jumping up and down in a fountain in Memphis with her "Golden Ticket" to Hollywood, but was contractually required to keep her final status a secret.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born 26 November 1981) is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Bedingfield recorded rock and gospel songs for the Hillsong London Church, while Daniel went on to enjoy success with hits "Gotta Get Thru This" and "If You're Not the One".
Bedingfield released her first album, Unwritten, in 2004. The album contained primarily up-tempo pop songs and was influenced by R&B music; it enjoyed international success with more than 2.3 million copies sold worldwide and she received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for the title track "Unwritten". Bedingfield's second album, N.B. (2007), was less successful but yielded the UK top 10 singles "I Wanna Have Your Babies" and "Soulmate". N.B. was not released in North America, but six tracks from it were included with seven new ones and released in 2008 as her third studio album Pocketful of Sunshine, with the singles "Love Like This" and "Pocketful of Sunshine" earning success on the charts. In December 2010, Bedingfield released her third album in North America named Strip Me.
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Oleta Adams
Oleta Adams (born May 4, 1953, Seattle, Washington) is an American soul, jazz, and gospel singer and pianist.
Adams was born the daughter of a preacher and was raised with gospel music. In her youth her family moved to Yakima, Washington, which is sometimes shown as her place of birth.
Before gaining her opportunity to perform, Adams faced a great deal of rejection. In the 1970s, she moved to Los Angeles, California where she recorded a demo tape. However, many music executives were exclusively interested in disco music rather than Adams' preferred style.
With the advice of her singing coach, Lee Farrell, Adams moved to Kansas City where she did a variety of local gigs. Adams started her career in the early 1980s with two self-financed albums which had limited success.
In 1985, Adams was discovered by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, founders of the English band Tears for Fears, while performing in a hotel bar in Kansas City, Missouri whilst they were on a US tour. They chatted with Adams after her performance, and two years later they contacted her to invite her to join their band as a singer on their next album, The Seeds of Love.
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Paris Bennett
Paris Ana'is Bennett (born August 21, 1988) is an American singer. She came to national recognition as a contestant on the fifth season of the reality television talent show, American Idol, finishing in fifth place. Bennett released her debut album Princess P on 306 Entertainment/TVT Records in 2007, as well as a holiday album in 2008 entitled A Royal Christmas.
Bennett was born in Rockford, Illinois,[citation needed] to Jamecia Venzett Bennett, former soprano vocalist of the vocal ensemble Sounds of Blackness, and current solo artist. Bennett was raised by her mother and stepfather, downtown developer Nedal "Ned" Abdul, in Edina, Minnesota. Bennett began performing at the age of six and was trained by her mother and grandmother, Ann Nesby, the former lead singer of the Sounds of Blackness.
Bennett has three younger brothers, Shakur, Jamez, and Dustin, plus a sister named Shana. Bennett is also trained in hip hop, modern African and jazz dance. She has opened for acts such as Bow Wow. Bennett attended Edina High School and played the part of Dorothy in the school production of "The Wiz" in 2003. Bennett's favorite artists are Gladys Knight, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin. In 2004, Bennett shifted to Fayetteville, Georgia to live with her grandparents and began her senior year at Starr's Mill High School.
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Pat Green
Patrick Craven "Pat" Green (born April 5, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American Texas Country artist. Active since 1995, he has recorded a total of ten studio albums, including several independent works, three for Republic Records and two for BNA. Fifteen of his singles have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which the highest-peaking is the #3 "Wave on Wave" from his gold-certified album of the same name.
Green was born in San Antonio to Craven Earl Green and Patricia Burgess. He was raised in Waco, Texas, where he attended Vanguard College Preparatory School for grades 7-12. Green's father was a former Air Force officer and stage actor who influenced his son's love of music. His parents divorced when he was seven. His mother later remarried.
After high school, Green attended Texas Tech University where he was a member of FarmHouse Fraternity. Green started his music career as an 18 year old at Texas Tech playing small gigs at bars and clubs around Lubbock. In 1995, Green independently recorded and released a series of albums produced by Lloyd Maines using money borrowed from his parents. Green did not commit fully to his music career until 1997 when his stepfather fired him from his job as a fuel wholesaler. Green had been counting his money from a weekend of singing and his stepfather knew he would need motivation to fully pursue music as a career.
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Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer as part of the early 1960s Nashville sound. Cline successfully "crossed over" to pop music. At age 30, she died at the height of her career in a private plane crash. She was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
Cline was best known for her rich tone, emotionally expressive and bold contralto voice and her role as a country music industry pioneer. She helped pave the way for women as headline performers in the genre. Cline's was cited as an inspiration by singers in several genres. Books, movies, documentaries, articles and stage plays document her life and career.
Her hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht's "Walkin' After Midnight", Harlan Howard's "I Fall to Pieces", Hank Cochran's "She's Got You", Willie Nelson's "Crazy" and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams".
Posthumously, millions of her records sold over a 50-year span. She won awards and accolades, leading some fans to view her as an icon at the level of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. Ten years after her death, in 1973, she became the first female solo artist inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1999, she was voted number 11 on VH1's special, The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll, by members and artists of the rock industry. In 2002, country music artists and industry members voted her Number One on CMT's The 40 Greatest Women of Country Music and ranked 46th in the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" issue of Rolling Stone magazine. According to her 1973 Country Music Hall of Fame plaque, "Her heritage of timeless recordings is testimony to her artistic capacity."
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
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Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul ( /ˈæbduːl/; born June 19, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.
In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her for fifth among the female solo performers who have reached #1 there. She won a Grammy for "Best Music Video – Short Form" for "Opposites Attract" and twice won the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography".
After her initial period of success, she suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the early years of the 21st century as a judge on the television series, American Idol, for eight years, before departing from the show. Abdul had moved on to another television series, CBS's Live to Dance, which debuted in January 2011. The series has since been canceled. Following her judging role in Live to Dance, Abdul moved to the first season of American version of The X Factor with her former American Idol co-judge Simon Cowell which premiered on September 21, 2011.
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Paula Goodspeed
Paula Goodspeed (1978 – November 11, 2008) was a reality TV show contestant and singer born best known for her appearances on American Idol. She was known for being a huge fan of singer and American Idol judge Paula Abdul, so much so she changed her first name to Paula and modeled her singing career and wardrobe after her.
In 2008, she died committing suicide via a drug overdose in her car outside of Paula Abdul's home in Sherman Oaks, California. She reportedly sent Abdul flowers prior to her suicide. Goodspeed had been accused in the press of being nothing more than another celebrity stalker but her relatives disputed that claim.
Her performance on American Idol brought her a great deal of notoriety, so much so her death was covered by such notable sources as People magazine, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, ABC News and Newsweek.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1975 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis. His singles, sometimes dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", dance pop of "Sussudio", piano-driven "Against All Odds", to the political statements of "Another Day in Paradise".
Collins's professional music career began as a drummer, originally in a band called The Real Thing with Andrea Bertorelli, who later became his first wife. Collins played drums and shared lead vocals (with Brian Chatton) in Flaming Youth which recorded one album, (Ark II). In 1970, he took over drums for Genesis, which had already recorded two albums. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: "For Absent Friends" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. Following Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer.
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Phillip Phillips
Phillip LaDon Phillips, Jr. (born September 20, 1990) is an American singer-songwriter from Leesburg, Georgia, and the winner of the eleventh season of American Idol.
Phillips was born in Leesburg, Georgia, the son of Sheryl (née LaDon) and Phillip Phillips, Sr. He grew up in Sasser and Leesburg, and attended Lee County High School. He graduated from Albany Technical College with a major in Industrial Systems Technology, but missed the graduation ceremony due to his obligations to American Idol. Prior to appearing on American Idol, he worked at his family's pawn shop.
Phillips said his favorite singer is Jonny Lang, and other favorites include John Butler, Dave Matthews and Damien Rice. He described his music as "jazz, rock alternative sound". Phillips was mentored by long time friend and brother-in-law Benjamin Neil.
Phillips auditioned in Savannah, Georgia. He sang "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder. The judges then asked him to perform a second song with his guitar, and he performed Michael Jackson's "Thriller." He advanced to the Hollywood rounds, and later to the Las Vegas round.
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Prince (artist)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of the instruments on his recordings. In addition, Prince has been a "talent promoter" for the careers of Sheila E., Carmen Electra, The Time and Vanity 6, and his songs have been recorded by these artists and others (including Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinéad O'Connor, and even Kim Basinger). He also has several hundred unreleased songs in his "vault".
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven. After recording songs with his cousin's band 94 East, seventeen-year-old Prince recorded several unsuccessful demo tapes before releasing his debut album, For You, in 1978. His 1979 album, Prince, went platinum due to the success of the singles "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover". His next three records, Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982) continued his success, showcasing Prince's trademark of prominently sexual lyrics and incorporation of elements of funk, dance and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released the album Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name.
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Prince (musician)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of the instruments on his recordings. In addition, Prince has been a "talent promoter" for the careers of Sheila E., Carmen Electra, The Time and Vanity 6, and his songs have been recorded by these artists and others (including Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinéad O'Connor, and even Kim Basinger). He also has several hundred unreleased songs in his "vault".
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven. After recording songs with his cousin's band 94 East, seventeen-year-old Prince recorded several unsuccessful demo tapes before releasing his debut album, For You, in 1978. His 1979 album, Prince, went platinum due to the success of the singles "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover". His next three records, Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982) continued his success, showcasing Prince's trademark of prominently sexual lyrics and incorporation of elements of funk, dance and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released the album Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Often referred to as the King of R&B, Kelly is recognized as one of the most successful R&B artists of all-time. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of major hit singles including "Bump n' Grind", "Your Body's Callin'", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm a Flirt", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet". In 1998, Kelly won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly".
Kelly has written, produced, and remixed songs for many artists including The Winans, The Isley Brothers, Charlie Wilson, Quincy Jones, K-Ci & JoJo, Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Michael Jackson, Hi-Five, Nivea, Ciara, Mary J. Blige, Luther Vandross, Gerald LeVert, Raheem DeVaughn, Ruben Studdard, Jaheim, Kelly Price, Tamia, Maxwell, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Usher, B2K, Twista, Tyrese, Jennifer Lopez, Trey Songz, and others in the U.S. and abroad.
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Randy Jackson
Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson (born June 23, 1956) is an American bassist, singer, record producer, entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and executive producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. Jackson has won a Grammy Award as a producer.
Jackson was born on June 23, 1956, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, His first marriage, to Elizabeth Jackson, was dissolved in 1990; they had one daughter named Taylor. In 1995, Jackson married Erika Riker, with whom he has two children, a 14-year-old daughter named Zoe and a 12-year-old son named Jordan. In 2003, Jackson lost 114 pounds (52 kg) following gastric bypass surgery. He stated in a February 2008 television commercial that he has type 2 diabetes.
Jackson played in bands with Carlos Santana and Jerry Garcia. In the early 1980s he played on three albums for Jean-Luc Ponty and with the rock band Taxxi. From 1986 to 1987 he was a session musician for the rock group Journey. Jackson played on Journey's 1986 album Raised on Radio. He moved to Italy in the late 1980s and played on a record by Italian pop star Zucchero. The record, Zucchero and the Randy Jackson Band, was produced by Corrado Rustici who played guitar with Jackson on many albums in the early 1980s. He also played with Billy Cobham.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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Ray LaMontagne
Raymond "Ray" Charles Jack LaMontagne ( /lɑːmɒnˈteɪn/; born June 18, 1973) is a Grammy-award winning American singer-songwriter. LaMontagne has released four studio albums, Trouble, Till the Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain and God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise. He was born in New Hampshire and was inspired to create music after hearing an album by Stephen Stills. Critics have compared LaMontagne's music to The Band, Van Morrison, Nick Drake, and Tim Buckley. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children.
LaMontagne was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1973. Despite his father's background in music, LaMontagne avoided the activity and spent time reading fantasy novels in the forest. He spent time in several different states in his youth. In his early teens he lived in Morgan, Utah, a small rural town of 2000 people. He was known for being an aloof, and indifferent to his education. He was much more interested in drawing images of Dungeons and Dragons than he was in his school work. He was well liked, and revered as somewhat of a mild nuisance. After graduating from high school, LaMontagne moved to Lewiston, Maine and found work in a shoe factory.
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Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band, on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma City, which caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall. He brought her to Nashville, Tennessee, where she eventually signed a contract with Mercury Records in 1975. She released her first solo album in 1977 and released five additional studio albums under the label until 1983.
Signing with MCA Nashville Records, McEntire took creative control over her second MCA album, My Kind of Country (1984), which had a more traditional country sound and produced two number one singles: "How Blue" and "Somebody Should Leave". The album brought her breakthrough success, bringing her a series of successful albums and number one singles in the 1980s and 1990s. McEntire has since released 26 studio albums, acquired 35 number one singles, and 28 albums have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces influenced heavy metal genres.
With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.
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Roger Whittaker
Roger Whittaker (born 22 March 1936) is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability. American audiences are most familiar with his 1970 hit "New World in the Morning" and his 1975 hit "The Last Farewell," the latter of which is his only single to hit the Billboard Hot 100 (it made the Top 20) and also hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Whittaker's parents, Edward and Viola, were originally from Staffordshire, England, where they owned and operated a grocery shop. His father had a motorcycle accident and the family moved to a farm near Thika, Kenya because of the warmer climate. His grandfather sang in various clubs and his father played the violin. Roger learned to play the guitar.
Whittaker was drafted into national service and spent two years in the Kenya Regiment. In 1956 he was demobilized and decided on a career in medicine. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
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Ruben Studdard
Christopher Theodore Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978), best known as Ruben Studdard, is an American R&B, pop, and gospel singer. He rose to fame as winner of the second season of American Idol. He received a Grammy Award nomination in December 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Superstar."
In the years following Idol, Studdard has released four studio albums, including his most recent disc, 2009's Love Is.
In addition to appearing on various television shows he has toured with Robin Givens in the comedy-drama Heaven I Need a Hug and in 2008 accepted the role of Fats Waller in a national tour of Ain't Misbehavin'.
Studdard, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany while his American father was stationed there with the U.S. Army, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. The youngest son of two teachers, at the age of three he sang for the first time at the Rising Star Baptist Church in his hometown of Birmingham. He continued singing gospel in church, performing solos as a child while his mother sang in the local choir. While at Huffman High School, he played football for which he received a scholarship to Alabama A&M University. While at Alabama A&M he joined the Omicron Delta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the men's music fraternity of America.
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Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host and producer. He is known internationally as host of the top-rated primetime talent showcase American Idol. He has been nominated for an Emmy award in the "Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program" category for his work on American Idol. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for co-hosting the 2005 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. As a television producer, Seacrest has won an Emmy for the ABC show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. On radio, Seacrest is host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, his market-topping #1 nationally syndicated LA morning drive-time radio show for Clear Channel’s 102.7 KIIS-FM. , as well as a nationally-syndicated Top 40 radio show. Seacrest hosted the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16, 2007. Seacrest has extensive deals with brand heavyweights Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Microsoft, and has a strategic marketing and technology alliance with Eventful, Inc.
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Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocal abilities and influence on the modern world of music. His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.
Cooke had 29 top-40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1964. Major hits like "You Send Me", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Cupid", "Chain Gang", "Wonderful World", and "Twistin' the Night Away" are some of his most popular songs. Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career. He founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. He also took an active part in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Sam Lanin
Sam (C.) Lanin (September 4, 1891 - May 5, 1977) was an American jazz bandleader.
Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained, successful careers in music. Lanin was one of ten children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants who emigrated to Philadelphia in the decade of the 1900s. Sam played clarinet and violin while young, and in 1912 he was offered a spot playing in Victor Herbert's orchestra, where he played through World War I. After the war he moved to New York City and began playing at the Roseland Ballroom in late 1918. There he established the Roseland Orchestra; this ensemble recorded for the Columbia Gramophone Company in the early 1920s.
Sam recorded with a plethora of ensemble arrangements, under names such as Lanin's Jazz Band, Lanin's Arcadians, Lanin's Famous Players, Lanin's Southern Serenaders, Lanin's Red Heads, Sam Lanin's Dance Ensemble, and Lanin's Arkansaw Travelers. He did not always give himself top billing in his ensemble's names, and was a session leader for an enormous number of sweet jazz recording sessions of the 1920s. Among the ensembles he directed were Ladd's Black Aces, The Broadway Bell-Hops, The Westerners, The Pillsbury Orchestra and Bailey's Lucky Seven. He had a rotating cast of noted musicians playing with him, including regular appearances from Phil Napoleon, Miff Mole, Jules Levy Jr. and Red Nichols, as well as Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Manny Klein, Jimmy McPartland, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Lang, Bunny Berigan, Nick Lucas and Frankie Trumbauer.
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Samantha Sang
Samantha Sang is a stage name of Australian singer, Cheryl Lau Sang, (born 5 August 1951) from Melbourne, who had an earlier career as Cheryl Gray. She had a number eight hit in Australia with "You Made Me What I Am" in 1967. By 1969, she had relocated to United Kingdom and worked with Bee Gees but then returned to Australia in 1975. Sang reconnected with Bee Gees in 1977 and had a number three hit with their song, "Emotion", on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, which also charted in Australia peaking at number two, and in the United Kingdom at number eleven. The related album, Emotion reached the top 30 on Billboard 200 and included two other Hot 100 singles.
Samantha Sang was born as Cheryl Lau Sang on 5 August 1951 to Reg Sang and Joan (née Clarke) in Melbourne, Australia. Sang is the great great granddaughter of a Chinese herbalist and surgeon. Reg ran a singing school and performed professionally as Reg Gray. Sang began her career, at the age of eight, by singing on Australian radio. She entered and won talent contests. In December 1966, Sang released her debut single, "The Real Thing" (not to be confused with fellow Australian Russell Morris' 1969 hit song, "The Real Thing") under the name Cheryl Gray. It was issued by EMI Records on their HMV label and was quickly followed by her second single, "In a Woman's Eyes". Her third single, "You Made Me What I Am", was released in May 1967 and reached number eight on the Go-Set Top 40. Teen magazine, Go-Set ran a poll in August for pop performers and Gray was voted third in the 'Top Girl Singer' category behind Lynne Randell and Bev Harrell. Sang released three more singles on HMV but none charted. She became a singer on Australian television, but she felt her career was limited if she remained in Australia.
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Sara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans (born February 5, 1971) is an American country singer and songwriter. For her entire career, she has been signed to RCA Records Nashville.
Evans' debut, Three Chords and the Truth, did not produce a Top 40 hit on the Hot Country Songs charts. She followed this up with No Place That Far (1998), Born to Fly (2000), Restless (2003) and Real Fine Place (2005). No Place That Far received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while the other three albums all were certified platinum. These discs include the number 1 singles "No Place That Far", "Born to Fly", "Suds in the Bucket" and "A Real Fine Place to Start", plus the top 10 hits "I Could Not Ask for More" (a cover of the Edwin McCain song), "I Keep Looking", "Perfect" and "Cheatin'". Her 2007 Greatest Hits included the top 20 hits "You'll Always Be My Baby" and "As If". Stronger (2011) included her fifth number 1 hit, "A Little Bit Stronger", which was co-written by Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum.
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Scott Brown
Scott Philip Brown (born September 12, 1959) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. Brown previously served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court, first in the State House of Representatives (1998–2004) and then in the State Senate (2004–2010).
Brown is a member of the Republican Party, and faced the Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in the 2010 special election to succeed U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy for the remainder of the term ending January 3, 2013. While initially trailing Coakley in polling by a large margin, Brown won the election and in January 2010 became the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts since Edward Brooke in 1972.
Prior to entering the state legislature, he had experience as a town selectman and assessor. He is a practicing attorney, concentrating in real estate law and serving as defense counsel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the Massachusetts Army National Guard. Brown is a graduate of Wakefield High School (1977), Tufts University (1981), and Boston College Law School (1985).
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Scotty McCreery
Scott Cooke "Scotty" McCreery (born October 9, 1993) is an American singer from Garner, North Carolina. He won the tenth season of American Idol on May 25, 2011. His debut studio album, Clear as Day, was released in October 2011 and was certified platinum in the United States. The album includes the top 20 country songs, "I Love You This Big" and "The Trouble with Girls".
McCreery was born in 1993 to Judy (née Cooke) and Michael McCreery in Garner, North Carolina. His mother works as a real estate agent, and his father works as a manufacturing systems analyst. His father was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico to a Puerto Rican mother from San Juan and an American father. His mother is the daughter of a retired school teacher from Gates County, NC. He attended Timber Drive Elementary School in Garner, and later West Lake Middle School where he sang at his graduation. He also attended Garner Magnet High School where he joined a vocal ensemble, Die Meistersingers, that performs across the United States. He started out singing tenor.
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Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment block on Manhattan's Upper West Side (but shot in Los Angeles), the show features a host of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, in particular best friend George Costanza, former girlfriend Elaine Benes, and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer.
Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment in association with Columbia Pictures Television in syndication the series was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television and Columbia TriStar Television; Sony Pictures Television has distributed the series since 2002. It was largely co-written by David and Seinfeld with input from numerous script writers, including Larry Charles, Peter Mehlman, Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Carol Leifer, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Steve Koren, Jennifer Crittenden, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Charlie Rubin, Marjorie Gross, Alec Berg, Elaine Pope, and Spike Feresten.
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll ( /ʃəˈkɪərə/,Spanish: [t͡ʃaˈkiɾa]; born February 2, 1977),known mononymously as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic.
After a poor commercial reception with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album Dónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success selling over 7 million copies worldwide. In 2001, aided by the worldwide success of her first English single "Whenever, Wherever" that became the best selling single of 2002, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Both reinforced her success, particularly with the best selling song of the 2000s, "Hips Don't Lie". In 1997, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. During her career, Shakira has performed at a large number of benefit concerts. Among the most famous are the Live 8 benefit concert in July 2005, the Live Earth concert, Hamburg where she headlined the show, as well as the "Clinton Global Initiative" created by former US President Bill Clinton. She was also invited to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development.
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Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC ( /ʃəˌnaɪ.ə ˈtweɪn/; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me (1995), brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and is the ninth best-selling album in the U.S. Her fourth album, Up!, was released in November 2002. To date it has sold 20 million copies worldwide.
Twain has won five Grammy Awards and 27 BMI Songwriter awards. She has had three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. She is the first (and currently only) female artist in history to have 3 consecutive albums reach diamond status, indicating sales of at least 10 million, certified by the RIAA. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country Pop", Twain has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide and is ranked 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era. She was also ranked 72nd on Billboard's "Artists of the decade" (2000–10). Most recently, Twain has her own TV series, Why Not? with Shania Twain, that premiered on the OWN on May 8, 2011. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 2, 2011.
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Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.
As a judge, Cowell is known for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their abilities. He is also known for combining activities in both the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including television personalities. He was most recently featured on the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent and the first season of The X Factor USA.
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Cowell at number 41 in a list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".
Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire. His mother, Julie Brett (née Josie Dalglish), is a former ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell (1918–1999), was an estate agent developer and music industry executive. Cowell's father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his background with his children (Cowell's paternal grandmother had immigrated from Poland). Cowell's mother was from a Christian background, and is of part Scottish descent. He has one brother and three half-brothers and a half sister; younger brother Nicholas Cowell, half-brother John Cowell, half-brother Tony Cowell, half-brother Michael Cowell and half sister June Cowell.
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Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler (born Steven Victor Tallaricco; March 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his wide vocal range. He is also known for his on-stage acrobatics. During his high-energy performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand. In the 1970s, Tyler rose to prominence as the frontman of Aerosmith, which released such milestone hard rock albums as Toys in the Attic and Rocks. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler had a heavy drug and alcohol addiction, and the band's popularity waned.
He completed drug rehabilitation in 1986 and subsequently maintained sobriety for years, but had a relapse with prescription painkillers in the late 2000s, for which he successfully received treatment in 2009. After Aerosmith launched a remarkable comeback in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the albums Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip, Tyler became a household name and has remained a relevant rock icon. As a result, he has since embarked on several solo endeavors including guest appearances on other artists' music, film and TV roles (including as a judge on American Idol), authoring a bestselling book, and solo work (including a Top 40 hit single in 2011). However, he has continued to record music and perform with Aerosmith, after more than 41 years in the band. He is included among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers. He was also ranked 3rd on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. In 2001 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Aerosmith, and he was the presenter when AC/DC was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Sy Oliver
Melvin "Sy" Oliver (December 17, 1910 in Battle Creek, Michigan – May 28, 1988 in New York City) was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader. His mother was a piano teacher and his father was a multi-instrumentalist who made a name for himself demonstrating saxophones at a time that instrument was little used outside of marching bands.
Oliver left home at 17 to play with Zack Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels and later with Alphonse Trent. He sang and played trumpet with these bands, becoming known for his "growling" horn playing.
Sy arranged and conducted many songs for Ella Fitzgerald from her Decca years.
As a composer, one of his most famous songs was T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) which he co-wrote with Trummy Young.
He joined Jimmie Lunceford's band in 1933 and contributed many hit arrangements to the band, including "My Blue Heaven" and "Ain't She Sweet". In 1939, he became one of the first African Americans with a prominent role in a white band when he joined Tommy Dorsey as an arranger, though he ceased playing trumpet at that time. (Fletcher Henderson joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as the arranger in the same year.) He led the transition of the Dorsey band from Dixieland to modern big band. His joining was instrumental in Buddy Rich's decision to join Dorsey. His arrangement of "On the Sunny Side of the Street" was a big hit for Dorsey, as were his own compositions "Yes Indeed" (a gospel-jazz tune that was later recorded by Ray Charles), "Opus One," "The Minor is Muggin'," "T.D.'s Boogie Woogie," and "Well, Git It."
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Taylor Hicks
Taylor Reuben Hicks (born October 7, 1976) is an American singer who achieved fame in 2006, when he won the fifth season of American Idol. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released two independent albums. Upon winning Idol, he was signed to Arista Records, under which his self-titled major label debut was released on December 12, 2006. His energetic stage performances and influences derived from classic rock, blues, and R&B music had earned him a following of devout fans, who have been dubbed the "Soul Patrol." He performed on Broadway in 2008 and on national tour in 2009 in Grease playing Teen Angel, the role originated by Alan Paul. The new CD, The Distance, was released March 10, 2009, with the first single, "What's Right Is Right", going to AC adds January 27, 2009. The second single was confirmed to be "Seven Mile Breakdown" via his Myspace page. In May 2011, Taylor Hicks opened ORE Drink and Dine restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama’s Crestline Park. Birmingham Magazine readers voted ORE as Birmingham’s “Best New Restaurant” in the fall of 2011. On June 14, 2011, Taylor Hicks performed at Bama Rising: A Benefit Concert For Alabama Tornado Recovery at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Center. According to Billboard, the Bama Rising benefit concert raised an estimated $2.2 million for Alabama tornado relief efforts.
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The Commodores
The Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.
This group is best known for their ballads, such as "Easy" and "Three Times a Lady", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky, driven dance-floor hits which include "Brick House", "The Bump", "Fancy Dancer", and "Too Hot ta Trot". The Commodores originally called themselves the Mystics, but wanted to change the name. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out," he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People magazine. "We almost became The Commodes!"[citation needed]
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The Crickets
The Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day", released in 1957. They helped set the template for subsequent rock bands such as the Beatles, with their guitar-bass-drums arrangements and tendency to write their own material. After Holly's death in 1959 the band continued to tour and record with different vocalists, releasing new material into the 21st century.
Holly had been making demo recordings with local musician friends since 1954. Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, and Larry Welborn participated in these sessions. In 1956 Holly's band (then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones (meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.
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The DeCastro Sisters
The DeCastro Sisters were a female trio singing group: originally they consisted of Peggy DeCastro (1921–2004), Cherie DeCastro (1922–2010) and Babette DeCastro (1925–1992). When Babette retired in 1958, a cousin, Olgita DeCastro Marino (1931–2000) replaced her and when Peggy later left the group to go solo, Babette re-joined Cherie and Olgita. Peggy eventually returned and Babette once more retired.
They began as a Latin-flavored trio, strongly inspired by The Andrews Sisters and were protegees of Carmen Miranda. They eventually became more Americanized in their performances and added a lot of comedy, but continued to have a unique and exotic identity of their own.
The biggest hit single for the group was "Teach Me Tonight", in 1954. The song hit #2 in the United States, and the follow-up, "Boom Boom Boomerang", hit #17. The group is referenced in an episode of The Sopranos, "Do Not Resuscitate", as one of the only music groups that matriarch Livia actually likes, along with Mario Lanza.
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The Five Satins
The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song, "In the Still of the Night."
The group, formed in New Haven, Connecticut, consisted of leader Fred Parris, Lou Peebles, Stanley Dortch, Ed Martin and Jim Freeman in 1954. With little success, the group reorganized, with Dortch and Peebles leaving, and new member Al Denby entering. The group then recorded "In the Still of the Night", which was originally released as the b-side to the single, "The Jones Girl". The single was initially issued on the tiny local "Standord" label and after some local Connecticut sales, it was released the following year on the New York label "Ember", and "In the Still of the Night" ended up charting at number three on the R&B chart and number 25 on the pop charts. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Parris entered the Army soon after, and the group reorganized again, with Martin, Freeman, Tommy Killebrew, Jessie Murphy and new lead Bill Baker. This lineup hit with another highly successful song, Billy Dawn Smith's "To the Aisle".
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Tiffany Evans
Tiffany Evans (born August 4, 1992) is an American singer and occasional actress.
Evans was born in New York City, in the Bronx, and is the seventh out of 10 children born to Carol and Lonnie Evans. At one point she and her family had been living in their van for years. Evans got her first break on Live at the Apollo at the age of 9 when Mo'Nique hosted. In February 2003, in her fourth Star Search appearance, Evans won the Grand Champion title in the junior singer division, becoming the only performer in "Star Search" history to receive perfect five scores on all of her appearances. In the competition, Evans competed against fellow singers Lisa Tucker and David Archuleta, both later appearing on American Idol. Evans has starred in an episode of Law and Order SVU, playing actor Blair Underwood's daughter. That same year, she sang for executives at Columbia Records and was offered a recording contract deal at 10-years-old. With her musical career already on the upswing, she landed a small role on CBS's "The District" and appeared in the 2005 film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
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Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the Soundscan era. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw.
McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.
McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".
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Todd Duncan
Robert Todd Duncan (February 12, 1903 – February 28, 1998) was an American baritone opera singer and actor.
Todd Duncan was born in Danville, Kentucky in 1903. He obtained his musical training at Butler University in Indianapolis with a B.A. in music followed by an M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College.
In 1933, Duncan debuted in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Mecca Temple in New York with the Aeolian Opera, a black opera company.
Duncan was George Gershwin's personal choice as the first performer of the role of Porgy in Porgy and Bess in 1935 and played the role more than 1,800 times. He led the cast during the Washington run of Porgy and Bess at the National Theatre in 1936, to protest the theatre's policy of segregation. Duncan stated that he "would never play in a theater which barred him from purchasing tickets to certain seats because of his race." Eventually management would give into the demands and allow for the first integrated performance at National Theatre. Duncan was also the first performer for the role of Stephen Kumalo in Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars.
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Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide. She has a contralto vocal type.[citation needed]
Braxton topped the Billboard 200 with her 1993 self-titled debut album and continued that streak with her second studio album Secrets, which spawned the number-one hits "You're Makin' Me High" and "Un-Break My Heart". Although she had successful albums and singles, Braxton shortly filed for bankruptcy, but then returned with her chart-topping third album, The Heat. In 2009, she returned to the spotlight with "Yesterday", a #12 R&B hit which serves as the first single off her new album Pulse, released on May 4, 2010, which debuted at #1 on Billboard R&B Album Chart. Braxton was involved in the 7th season of the reality show Dancing with the Stars. Her professional partner was Alec Mazo. She was voted off in week five of the competition. It was announced on October 6, 2010 that Braxton once again had filed for bankruptcy. A reality series entitled Braxton Family Values, starring Toni and her sisters, debuted April 12, 2011 on WE tv. WE tv ordered a 13-episode second season of the show after the third episode of the first season. On September 18, 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
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Val Rosing
Val Rosing (1910-1969) was the British "Dance Hall" and British dance band singer best known as the vocalist with the BBC Henry Hall Orchestra. Born as Valerian Rosing, he was the son of Russian tenor and opera director, Vladimir Rosing and English singer Marie Falle. From 1938 he was also known as Gilbert Russell.
Rosing sang on the original BBC recording of Teddy Bear's Picnic as well as In a Little Gypsy Tea Room. Another of his notable records was the Ray Noble Orchestra's recording of Try a Little Tenderness, the first recording of this well-covered song. Rosing recorded more than one hundred sides with various English bands, including Spike Hughes and His Decca-Dents, the Jack Payne Orchestra, Jack Hylton's Orchestra and Rosing's own Radio Rhythm Rascals, before moving to the United States of America in the later 1930s.
Rosing married the English actress Meriel Carrington in 1932. They had a daughter, the artist Anna Edouard.
In 1938, Rosing moved to America at the urging of Louis B. Mayer, who renamed him Gilbert Russell, with hopes of making Russell the "English Bing Crosby." His years at MGM were uneventful, and after his stint with the studio, Russell sang and acted in musicals and light operas around the country. Making the transition from pop to "legitimate" singer, Rosing legally changed his name to Gilbert Russell and sang in the Chicago Theater of the Air, the NY Opera Company, and the San Francisco Opera. In 1953, Rosing married secondly Marilyn Pendry, a dancer in movies such as "White Christmas" and "An American in Paris." The couple had one daughter, Claudia Russell, before divorcing. In 1961 Russell married June Baum, a singer and actress.
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Vivienne Segal
Vivienne Sonia Segal (April 19, 1897 - December 29, 1992) was an American actress and singer.
Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and introduced the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". Pal Joey opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre December 25, 1940, with a cast that included Gene Kelly and June Havoc. She also starred as Morgan LeFay in the Rodgers and Hart revival of A Connecticut Yankee in 1942. One of Lorenz Hart's last songs, To Keep My Love Alive, was written specifically for her in this show.[citation needed]
Since the 1940 production went unrecorded, a studio cast was assembled in 1950 to record the musical. In 2003, this recording was reissued by Columbia Broadway Masterworks in a release featuring such Rodgers and Hart tunes as “I Could Write a Book”, “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, “Zip”, and “Take Him,” as well as two bonus tracks: Lang singing “I Could Write a Book” (from the CBS TV show Shower of Stars) and Segal—interviewed by Mike Wallace on the CBS Radio show Stage Struck -- recalled Hart's promise to write her a show and then sings “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”. She was also a performer on the CBS Radio program Accordiana in 1934.
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Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced /welən dʒɛnɪŋz/; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at twelve on KVOW radio. He formed a band, The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings' first recording session, of "Jolie Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)". Holly hired him to play bass. During the Winter Dance Party Tour, in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane to arrive to the next venue. Jennings gave up his seat in the plane to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold. The flight that carried Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed, on the day later known as The Day the Music Died. Following the accident, Jennings worked as a D.J in Coolidge, Arizona and Phoenix. He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors. He recorded for independent label Trend Records, A&M Records before succeeding with RCA Victor after achieving creative control of his records.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (pronounced /wɪli nɛlsən /; born April 30, 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed at the end of the 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
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Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Johannes Puck (born Wolfgang Johannes Topfschnig; July 8, 1949) is an Austrian celebrity chef, restaurateur, businessman and occasional actor. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions.
He was born to Maria Worth and a butcher, who abandoned her before their child's birth. In 1956, Maria married Josef Puck, who adopted Puck. The marriage produced another son and two daughters.
Puck learned cooking from his mother, who sometimes worked as a pastry chef. He trained as an apprentice under Raymond Thuilier at L'Oustau de Baumanière in Les Baux-de-Provence, at Hotel de Paris in Monaco, and at Maxim's Paris before moving to the United States in 1973 at age 25. After two years at La Tour in Indianapolis, Puck moved to Los Angeles to become chef and part owner at Ma Maison restaurant.
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Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean (/ˈwaɪklɪf ˈʒɑːn/; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [wajklɛf ʒã]; born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian American musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees.
On August 5, 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election, although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years.
Although his birth date was widely given as October 17, 1972, papers filed for his run as a candidate for the presidency of Haiti, disclosed that he was, in fact, born in 1969. Born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, the son of a Nazarene pastor, Wyclef moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York, when he was nine before moving again to northern New Jersey. Jean has cited reggae artist Bigga Haitian as one of his early influences, as well as neighborhood heroes MC Tiger Paw Raw and producer Lobster v. Crab. Jean graduated from Vailsburg High School in Newark, briefly attended Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts, and finished one semester at Five Towns College in New York. Jean has been a resident of Saddle River, South Orange, and North Caldwell, New Jersey. In 2009, Jean enrolled in the Berklee College of Music.
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American Idol Season 5 - Katharine McPhee audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
katharine's audition
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Katharine_McPhee_audition
Top 6 Girl Medley - American Idol Season 5 (HQ)
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
The top 6 girls on American Idol Season 5 singing a medley of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" by Shania Twain, "TROUBLE" by Elvis Presley, "I'm a Woman" by Peggy Lee, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin, and "I'm Every Woman" by Chaka Khan on the Finale show
http://wn.com/Top_6_Girl_Medley_American_Idol_Season_5_HQ
American Idol Season 5 Final Four Elvis Medley
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliot Yamin and Chris Daughtry singing an Elvis Medley in the Final 4 of American Idol Season 5.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Final_Four_Elvis_Medley
American Idol Season 5 - Winner Announcement
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
The announcement of the winner of American Idol 2006.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Winner_Announcement
AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 5 FINAL - KELLIE PICKLER LEARNS ABOUT FINE CUISINE! PUCK N' PICKLER
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
In one of the lighter moments of the season 5 final, we see here Kellie Pickler getting a lesson in fine cuisine from world renowned chef Wolfgang Puck.
http://wn.com/AMERICAN_IDOL_SEASON_5_FINAL_KELLIE_PICKLER_LEARNS_ABOUT_FINE_CUISINE!_PUCK_N'_PICKLER
AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 5 FINAL - CARRIE UNDERWOOD & TOP 12 - I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/AMERICAN_IDOL_SEASON_5_FINAL_CARRIE_UNDERWOOD_TOP_12_I_MADE_IT_THROUGH_THE_RAIN_HQ
Chris Daughtry's Elimination American Idol Season 5 - Interviews
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:13
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Remembering Daughtry American Idol Season 5
http://wn.com/Chris_Daughtry's_Elimination_American_Idol_Season_5_Interviews
American Idol Top 12 Contestants Season 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
A slideshow.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Top_12_Contestants_Season_5
American Idol Season 5 Best Impersonator Award - Michael Sandecki for Clay Aiken (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Of all the lighter moments across the main finals of American Idol, this has got to be one of the most memorable. Enjoy the award to Michael Sandecki for best impersonator (Clay Aiken) You need to watch the video to the end to fully appreciate it.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Best_Impersonator_Award_Michael_Sandecki_for_Clay_Aiken_HQ
Taylor Hicks - You're So Beautiful
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
American Idol Season 5
http://wn.com/Taylor_Hicks_You're_So_Beautiful
AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 5 SEMI FINAL - KATHARINE McPHEE - SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
This has to be one of the performances from across the seasons of American Idol that sticks in the memory of many. here we see Katharine McPhee in the season 5 semi final singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow as the judges choice of song (chosen by Simon Cowell)
http://wn.com/AMERICAN_IDOL_SEASON_5_SEMI_FINAL_KATHARINE_McPHEE_SOMEWHERE_OVER_THE_RAINBOW_HQ
American Idol Season 5 Episode 15 - Top 10 Boys Perform
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:36
- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 14 - Top 10 Girls Perform
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:36
- Updated: 05 Aug 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 11 - The Top 12 Girls Perform Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 5 - Las Vegas, NV Auditions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 40 - Taylor Hicks Vs. Katharine McPhee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 12 Apr 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 3 - Greensboro, NC Auditions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 06 Jul 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 - Top 8 Perform
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 - Top 8 Perform
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- Duration: 8:33
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
www.americanidolhere.com Tonight on American Idol the Top 8 finalists will perform live for the nation. The contestants will perform their hearts out to the theme of Queen in hopes of winning America's vote and surviving another week. This Week's Theme is: Queen Performing Tonight: Katharine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Paris Bennett, Ace Young, Bucky Covington, Chris Daughtry, Elliott Yamin, and Taylor Hicks. American Idol s05e28 American Idol S5e28 s05e28 S5e28 5x28 Season 5 episode 28 tv shows S5 s05 se5 e28 ep28 5x28 4 S05 E28 HQ episodes serie series watch online complete full tv television hd hq part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4. Watch American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform watch online watch American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform full episode online watch American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform for free watch American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform full free watch American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform full episode watch American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform free online watch full American Idol Season 5 Episode 28 Top 8 Perform.
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AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 5 TOP MOMENTS ON TOUR :: Idol Underground with Danny D-Crest Jordan
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 05 Apr 2012
Hosting reel from American Idol audition tour (Season 5), American Idol Underground launch party, and Up from the Underground.
http://wn.com/AMERICAN_IDOL_SEASON_5_TOP_MOMENTS_ON_TOUR_Idol_Underground_with_Danny_D-Crest_Jordan
American Idol Season 5 Episode 12 - The Top 12 Boys Perform Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Episode 17 - Top 8 Girls Perform
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
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American Idol Season 5 Top 10 Singles/Post-Idol Music
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
Clips of singles/post-idol music from the American Idol Season 5 Top 10 Taylor Hicks - Just To Feel That Way (Taylor Hicks) Katharine McPhee - Over It (Katharine McPhee) Elliott Yamin - Wait For You (Elliott Yamin) Chris Daughtry - It's Not Over (Daughtry) Paris Bennett - Ordinary Love (Princess P) Kellie Pickler - Red High Heels (Small Town Girl) Ace Young - Addicted (Ace Young) Bucky Covington - A Different World (Bucky Covington) Mandisa - Only The World (True Beauty) Lisa Tucker - Love Is (Myspace music)
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Top_10_Singles_Post-Idol_Music
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Melissa Mcghee - Why Haven´t I Heard From You
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- Duration: 1:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Melissa Mcghee shows her unique voice singing ´´Why Haven´t I Heard From You`` on top 20 night from Season 5.
http://wn.com/Melissa_Mcghee_Why_Haven´t_I_Heard_From_You
American Idol 5 - Melissa McGhee - Lately
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Melissa McGhee - Lately - Stevie Wonder week. Top 12
http://wn.com/American_Idol_5_Melissa_McGhee_Lately
Kevin Covais audition (fixed video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(I uploaded Kevin's audition before but the video was all messed up. Here's the fixed one.)
American Idol 5's most adorable finalist, Kevin "Chicken Little" Covais sings "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Covais_audition_fixed_video
Kevin Covais - Part Time Lover
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
8. Kevin Covais - Part Time Lover
T.12
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Kevin Covais - When I Fall In Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
8. Kevin Covais - When I Fall In Love
T.11
http://wn.com/Kevin_Covais_When_I_Fall_In_Love
Lisa Tucker Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Lisa AI audirion in Denver
http://wn.com/Lisa_Tucker_Audition
lisa tucker i am chaging
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
the best performances of the night
http://wn.com/lisa_tucker_i_am_chaging
Lisa Tucker - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
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- Duration: 1:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
7. Lisa Tucker - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
T.12
http://wn.com/Lisa_Tucker_Signed,_Sealed,_Delivered
Lisa Tucker - Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
7. Lisa Tucker - Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
T.11
http://wn.com/Lisa_Tucker_Why_Do_Fools_Fall_In_Love?
Lisa Tucker - Because of You
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1. Lisa Tucker - Because of You
T.10
http://wn.com/Lisa_Tucker_Because_of_You
American Idol 5 - Mandisa´s Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
She was the bomb
http://wn.com/American_Idol_5_Mandisa´s_Audition
Mandisa - Never
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
AI 5 - Top 24 stage
http://wn.com/Mandisa_Never
Mandisa - Cry
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Mandisa's performance of the song Cry in American Idol's 5th season.
http://wn.com/Mandisa_Cry
Mandisa - I'm every woman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Mandisa canta o sucesso de witney houston e dá show no american idol 5. segundo simen ela era a unica que faria ele voltar a fita pra rever a apresentação
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Mandisa - I Don't Want To Hurt Anymore
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1. Mandisa - I Don't Want To Hurt Anymore
T.11
http://wn.com/Mandisa_I_Don't_Want_To_Hurt_Anymore
Mandisa - Any Man of Mine
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Mandisa, form American Idol 5, singing Any Man Of Mine, by Shania Twain. She was eliminated after this performance.Please comment!
http://wn.com/Mandisa_Any_Man_of_Mine
Bucky Covington - Superstition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
5. Bucky Covington - Superstition
T.12
http://wn.com/Bucky_Covington_Superstition
Bucky Covington - Oh Boy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
2. Bucky Covington - Oh Boy
T.11
http://wn.com/Bucky_Covington_Oh_Boy
Bucky Covington - Real Good Man
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
8. Bucky Covington - Real Good Man
T.10
http://wn.com/Bucky_Covington_Real_Good_Man
Bucky Covington - Best I Ever Had
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
9. Bucky Covington - Best I Ever Had
T.9
http://wn.com/Bucky_Covington_Best_I_Ever_Had
Bucky Covington - Fat Bottomed Girls
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
1. Bucky Covington - Fat Bottomed Girls
T.8
http://wn.com/Bucky_Covington_Fat_Bottomed_Girls
Ace Young's American Idol Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Denver, Colorado
American Idol Rewind Version
Season 5 - 7th place
http://wn.com/Ace_Young's_American_Idol_Audition
Ace Young - Father Figure from AI 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is the video straight from the competition, not a shaky hand held at one of the concerts. It's good quality and oh so watchable.
http://wn.com/Ace_Young_Father_Figure_from_AI_5
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American Idol Season 4 - Top 5 Worst Auditions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol Season 4 - Top 5 Worst Auditions :D must see. subscribe to me for more.
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American Idol 4 - Bo Bice Audition
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol 4 - Bo Bice Audition
http://wn.com/American_Idol_4_Bo_Bice_Audition
Carrie Underwood American Idol Season 4 Finale
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Carrie's winning moment and singing Inside Your Heaven.
American Idol Season 4 Finale
http://wn.com/Carrie_Underwood_American_Idol_Season_4_Finale
American Idol Season 5 Final Four Elvis Medley
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliot Yamin and Chris Daughtry singing an Elvis Medley in the Final 4 of American Idol Season 5.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Final_Four_Elvis_Medley
American Idol Season 5 - Winner Announcement
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The announcement of the winner of American Idol 2006.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Winner_Announcement
American Idol Judges - Season 5 Finale
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- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol Judges - Season 5 Finale
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Judges_Season_5_Finale
The American Idol Season 6 Top 6 sings Bon Jovi
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Phil Stacey, Jordin Sparks, LaKisha Jones, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson and Melinda Doolittle in a breathtaking part of the competition where they fight for the Final 4. They took the music of Bon Jovi and in my opinion, this is one of the best AMERICAN IDOL episodes of all times....
http://wn.com/The_American_Idol_Season_6_Top_6_sings_Bon_Jovi
American Idol Season 6 Top 24
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- Duration: 9:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
A video with clips of each American Idol Season 6 Top 24 contestant's best performance:
Amy Krebs: "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Paul Kim: "Careless Whisper"
Nicole Tranquillo: "Stay"
Rudy Cardenas: "Free Ride"
Nick Pedro: "Fever"
Alaina Alexander: "Brass In Pocket"
AJ Tabaldo: "Feeling Good"
Leslie Hunt: "Natural Woman"
Jarred Cotter: "Back At One"
Antonella Barba: "Put Your Records On"
Sabrina Sloan: "All The Man That I Need"
Sundance Head: "Mustang Sally"
Brandon Rogers: "Rock With You"
Stephanie Edwards: "How Come You Don't Call Me?"
Chris Sligh: "She's Not There"
Gina Glocksen: "I'll Stand By You"
Haley Scarnato: "Tell Him"
Sanjaya Malakar: "You Really Got Me"
Phil Stacey: "Blaze of Glory"
Chris Richardson: "Smooth"
LaKisha Jones: "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"
Melinda Doolitte: "I'm A Woman"
Blake Lewis: "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Jordin Sparks: "Broken Wing"
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Top_24
American Idol Season 6 Fatboy Slim
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Check this out.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Fatboy_Slim
American Idol Season 6 -Finale Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by Gwen Stefani n more...
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_-Finale_Part_1
American Idol Season 6 Finale - Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by miss Bette Midler..
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_2
American Idol Season 6 Finale - Part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by Tailor Hicks n more..
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_3
American Idol Season 6 Finale- Part 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by Carrie Underwood...
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_4
American Idol Season 6 ... 01
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
REAL FUNNY
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_01
American Idol Season 6 Finale - Part 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performaces by Sanjaya Malakar,Green Day n more...
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_5
American Idol Season 6 Finale - Part 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by Blake Lewis..
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_6
American Idol Season 6 Finale - Part 7
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by Top 6 Girls...
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_7
Lakia Hill audition on American Idol Season 6
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- Duration: 1:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
THE MOST AMAZING IDOL AUDITION OF SEASON 6! Lakia Hill audition Season 6
http://wn.com/Lakia_Hill_audition_on_American_Idol_Season_6
American Idol Season 6 Finale - Part 8
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Performance by Tony Bennet...
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Finale_Part_8
American Idol Season 6 Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 1, see other parts also
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0456B7491B0C467C
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Part_1
Blake Lewis Audition - Crazy American Idol Season 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://www.Blake-Lewis brings you Blake Lewis's audition on American Idol. From the beginning everyone knew he would win the whole show. He has what it takes to win it all! Go Blake Lewis!
http://wn.com/Blake_Lewis_Audition_Crazy_American_Idol_Season_6
American Idol Season 6 Guys Live - Crazy, Hey Jude
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is the "American Idol Band" performing Crazy by Gnarles Barkley and Hey Jude by The Beatles in Tacoma, Washington
The band consists of Phil Stacy on keyboard, Blake Lewis on guitar, Chris Sligh on bass, Sanjaya Malakar on tambourine, and Chris Richardson on drums. And all of them on vocals of course.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_Guys_Live_Crazy,_Hey_Jude
American Idol Season 6 (2007) Seattle, WA - Darwin Reedy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol Season 6 (2007)
Darwin Reedy ( Big American Idol Fan )
Audition - Singing - Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_6_2007_Seattle,_WA_Darwin_Reedy
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Kelly Clarkson Chris Daughtry - Fast Car
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
rock music, classic rock, diva, pop music, guitar, live music, hard rock, indie rock --- You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere / Maybe we make a deal / Maybe together we can get somewhere / Any place is better / Starting from zero got nothing to lose / Maybe we'll make something / But me myself I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car / And I got a plan to get us out of here / I been working at the convenience store / Managed to save just a little bit of money / We won't have to drive too far / Just 'cross the border and into the city / You and I can both get jobs / And finally see what it means to be living
You see my old man's got a problem / He live with the bottle that's the way it is / He says his body's too old for working / I say his body's too young to look like his / My mama went off and left him / She wanted more from life than he could give / I said somebody's got to take care of him / So I quit school and that's what I did
You got a fast car / But is it fast enough so we can fly away / We gotta make a decision / We leave tonight or live and die this way
I remember we were driving driving in your car / The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk / City lights lay out before us / And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder / And I had a feeling that I belonged / And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
You got a fast car / And we go cruising to entertain ourselves / You still ain't got a job / And I work in a market as a checkout girl / I know things will get better / You'll find work and I'll get promoted / We'll move out of the shelter / Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car / And I got a job that pays all our bills / You stay out drinking late at the bar / See more of your friends than you do of your kids / I'd always hoped for better / Thought maybe together you and me would find it / I got no plans I ain't going nowhere / So take your fast car and keep on driving
You got a fast car / But is it fast enough so you can fly away / You gotta make a decision / You leave tonight or live and die this way
acoustic music, alternative rock, classics, rock, teen music, blues music, concert, live concert, teen television, pop artist, dance, music
http://wn.com/Kelly_Clarkson_Chris_Daughtry_Fast_Car
American Idol 5 - Mandisa´s Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
She was the bomb
http://wn.com/American_Idol_5_Mandisa´s_Audition
Mandisa - Never
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
AI 5 - Top 24 stage
http://wn.com/Mandisa_Never
Kellie Pickler Audition for American Idol
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is my favorite american idol audition !
Kellie Dawn Pickler was born on 28 June 1986 in Albemarle, North Carolina, USA.
Kellie placed 6th in the fifth season of american idol
http://wn.com/Kellie_Pickler_Audition_for_American_Idol
Kellie Pickler American Idol Performances
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Kellie Pickler's American Idol Performances
http://wn.com/Kellie_Pickler_American_Idol_Performances
Ayla Brown Makes the Top 24
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Ayla's EP 'Circles' is now available to purchase at iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/yh5ch5o
Ayla makes the Top 24 on "American Idol" (original airdate: 2/15/06).
http://wn.com/Ayla_Brown_Makes_the_Top_24
Paris Bennett audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Paris Bennett's audition
http://wn.com/Paris_Bennett_audition
Midnight Train to Georgia
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
It appears this girl is made of music...
http://wn.com/Midnight_Train_to_Georgia
Lisa Tucker Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Lisa AI audirion in Denver
http://wn.com/Lisa_Tucker_Audition
lisa tucker i am chaging
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
the best performances of the night
http://wn.com/lisa_tucker_i_am_chaging
American Idol Season 5 - Katharine McPhee audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
katharine's audition
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Katharine_McPhee_audition
Katharine Mcphee - I'll Never Love This Way Again
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Kat on AI5 Hollywood Week, Individual Performance
http://wn.com/Katharine_Mcphee_I'll_Never_Love_This_Way_Again
Katharine Mcphee - Since I Fell For You
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Top 24 American Idol 5
http://wn.com/Katharine_Mcphee_Since_I_Fell_For_You
Patrick Hall - American Idol Top 24
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
video para blog
http://wn.com/Patrick_Hall_American_Idol_Top_24
David Radford - Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
David Radford auditioned on American Idol 5 in Chicago
http://wn.com/David_Radford_Audition
David Radford - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
David Radford sings Crazy Little Thing Called Love
http://wn.com/David_Radford_Crazy_Little_Thing_Called_Love
Will Makar Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Willian Makar first audition on American Idol...
http://wn.com/Will_Makar_Audition
Will Maker I want you back
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Nice performance of Will Makar in america Idol
http://wn.com/Will_Maker_I_want_you_back
American Idol 5 Week 1 Jose Sway Penala- Reasons
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Oh geez, Sway swayed my head and feet in this performance. Check out the idol ladies after his performance
Surprised to know that he is my churchmate. Groovy Brethren!
Reasons (Earth Wind and Fire Cover)
http://wn.com/American_Idol_5_Week_1_Jose_Sway_Penala_Reasons
Chris Daughtry - Dead or Alive
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Chris singing Wanted Dead or Alive during the top 24 round of AI5.
http://wn.com/Chris_Daughtry_Dead_or_Alive
Chris Daughtry - American Idol Audition
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
He is the greatest!!! give me the chills!!!
sweden loves you
http://wn.com/Chris_Daughtry_American_Idol_Audition
Kevin Covais audition (fixed video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(I uploaded Kevin's audition before but the video was all messed up. Here's the fixed one.)
American Idol 5's most adorable finalist, Kevin "Chicken Little" Covais sings "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Covais_audition_fixed_video
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- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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American Idol - Top 9 Elimination - Ramiele Malubay
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Elimination of Ramiele Malubay
AMERICAN IDOL TOP 9 ELIMINATION 04/02/08 and last performance
(Look At My Channel For More)
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Top_9_Elimination_Ramiele_Malubay
American Idol - Top 12 - Horton Hears A Who Premiere
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is the top 12 American Idol contestants at the Horton Hears a Who Premiere!
ENJOY!
Thanks http://www.Archuletafans.com
I do not own this video. I'm not affliated with American Idol or it's producers in anyway. Thanks
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Top_12_Horton_Hears_A_Who_Premiere
Brooke White -"You're so Vain"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Please Like/Fav/Subscribe ★
American Idol Season 7.
Top 20 finalist Brooke White singing "You're so Vain" by Carly Simon.
February 27, 2008.
(courtesy Freemantle Int'l)
http://wn.com/Brooke_White_-You're_so_Vain
American Idol - Carly Smithson - Crazy On You
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
(02.27.08) American Idol 7 - Top 10 Females
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Carly_Smithson_Crazy_On_You
Blake Lewis & Jordin Sparks - I Saw Her Standing There
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Blake and Jordin duet on "I Saw Her Standing There" on the finale of AI. Thanks, nobody!
http://wn.com/Blake_Lewis_Jordin_Sparks_I_Saw_Her_Standing_There
Blake Lewis - You Give Love A Bad Name(Bon Jovi)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Blake Lewis does a remake of Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name on American Idol
http://wn.com/Blake_Lewis_You_Give_Love_A_Bad_NameBon_Jovi
American Idol Top 8 Group Performance
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol Top 8
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Top_8_Group_Performance
Top 9 Elimination Results
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol Top 9
http://wn.com/Top_9_Elimination_Results
Hollywood - Day 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Antonella Barba finds out she has made it to the top 24. Video is a part of antonella-barba.net.
http://wn.com/Hollywood_Day_2
Idol Shocker!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Idol isn't Idol without it's shockers. This one from AI5's Top 4 elimination show is by far the biggest shocker of all. Enjoy the creative editing! :)
http://wn.com/Idol_Shocker!
Taylor Hicks is safe, but has to choose...
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Taylor Hicks has to choose which group is the bottom 3.
http://wn.com/Taylor_Hicks_is_safe,_but_has_to_choose
Queen Medley - American Idol 5 - Top8
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Group song at the Top8 American Idol season 5 LOVE IT!
http://wn.com/Queen_Medley_American_Idol_5_Top8
Carrie underwood-Man i feel like a woman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is one of carrie's performances on American Idol that randi pict for her
http://wn.com/Carrie_underwood-Man_i_feel_like_a_woman
American Idol 3 - Diana DeGarmo + Fantasia Barrino + Kelly C
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol 3 - Diana DeGarmo + Fantasia Barrino + Kelly Clarkson + Ruben Studdard - Impossible Dream (Live On American Idol 3 Finale 05-26-04).mpg
http://wn.com/American_Idol_3_Diana_DeGarmo_+_Fantasia_Barrino_+_Kelly_C
Carmen Rasmusen - Call Me
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Carmen Rasmusen singing "Call Me" - American Idol 2 Top 8.
THIS VIDEO AND THE TV SHOW AMERICAN IDOL BELONG TO FREMANTLE MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT!
http://wn.com/Carmen_Rasmusen_Call_Me
American Idol Season 5 Final Four Elvis Medley
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliot Yamin and Chris Daughtry singing an Elvis Medley in the Final 4 of American Idol Season 5.
http://wn.com/American_Idol_Season_5_Final_Four_Elvis_Medley
Carrie Underwood - Alone
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol 4 - Carrie Underwood's best performance
http://wn.com/Carrie_Underwood_Alone
American Idol season 2 - God bless the USA
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Patriotic song "god bless the usa" sung by the contestants of american idol
this is the year with clay aiken, and Ruben Studdard
http://wn.com/American_Idol_season_2_God_bless_the_USA
Katharine McPhee Black Horse and a Cherry Tree (Finale)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Katharine McPhee singing Black Horse and a Cherry Tree at the American Idol Season 5 Finale.
http://wn.com/Katharine_McPhee_Black_Horse_and_a_Cherry_Tree_Finale
Simon Cowell apologized to Katharine McPhee
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
In the TOP 6, Katharine McPhee sang 'I Have Nothing' by Whitney Houston and the judges stated that wasn't a great performance.
The following night, Cowell took back his statement, saying that when he watched it back, it wasn't as bad as he had told her. Jackson also apologized by saying that he had been a little bit "too harsh." Abdul said that she has never been harsh, and later said that she still didn't feel that Katharine had had a good night
http://wn.com/Simon_Cowell_apologized_to_Katharine_McPhee
AI 5 Finale - Carrie, Kat & Taylor - Made it Through the rai
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
American Idol 5 Finale - Carrie, Katherine And Taylor - Made It Through The Rain
http://wn.com/AI_5_Finale_Carrie,_Kat_Taylor_Made_it_Through_the_rai
Katharine McPhee-My Destiny
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Katharine McPhee's FINAL American Idol performance. Her rendition of this song and Somwhere Over the Rainbow got her on Billboard's HOT SINGLE SALES in the TOP 5 for months!!
http://wn.com/Katharine_McPhee-My_Destiny
1:53
Melissa Mcghee - Why Haven´t I Heard From You
Melissa Mcghee shows her unique voice singing ´´Why Haven´t I Heard From You`` on top 20 n...
published: 13 Nov 2011
author: acredawn
Melissa Mcghee - Why Haven´t I Heard From You
Melissa Mcghee shows her unique voice singing ´´Why Haven´t I Heard From You`` on top 20 night from Season 5.
- published: 13 Nov 2011
- views: 1812
- author: acredawn
2:02
Kevin Covais audition (fixed video)
(I uploaded Kevin's audition before but the video was all messed up. Here's the fixed one....
published: 08 Jan 2010
author: acredawn
Kevin Covais audition (fixed video)
(I uploaded Kevin's audition before but the video was all messed up. Here's the fixed one.)
American Idol 5's most adorable finalist, Kevin "Chicken Little" Covais sings "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban.
- published: 08 Jan 2010
- views: 105513
- author: acredawn
2:00
Mandisa - I'm every woman
Mandisa canta o sucesso de witney houston e dá show no american idol 5. segundo simen ela ...
published: 13 Nov 2011
author: acredawn
Mandisa - I'm every woman
Mandisa canta o sucesso de witney houston e dá show no american idol 5. segundo simen ela era a unica que faria ele voltar a fita pra rever a apresentação
- published: 13 Nov 2011
- views: 88523
- author: acredawn
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Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 196...
published: 10 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Thomas
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams' version was disliked by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers.[citation needed] Andy Williams' version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962.
The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.
Moon River
Henry Mancini - Moon River-1961.ogg
Theme of Moon River composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
Comments about the song have noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States.
Audrey Hepburn.
Jerry Butler Danny Williams Andy Williams Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (instrumental), Aretha Franklin, Ann Margret in 1962, Jonny Fair (Live), Lena Horne, Nico Fidenco in italian (1962), Jay and the Americans (1962), Bobby Solo in italian (1966), The Afghan Whigs, Paul Anka, Blake, Louis Armstrong, Vic Damone, Billy Stewart in 1965, Bobby Vinton in 1965, Vince Guaraldi, Beru Revue, Mary Black, Sarah Brightman, Liz Callaway, Perry Como, Ben E. King, Ray Conniff, Bobby Darin, Ania Dąbrowska, Dr. John, Dump, Billy Eckstine, The Four Freshmen, Connie Francis, Bill Frisell , Emi Fujita, Judy Garland, Duane Eddy Karel Gott, Grant Green Patty Griffin Milla Jovovich), Bradley Joseph (instrumental), Kim Yoo-jin, James Last, Trini Lopez, Lisa Ono, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mathis, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, Morrissey, Willie Nelson, Patsy Ann Noble, Eddi Reader, Jim Reeves, John Barrowman, R.E.M., Katie Melua, Andrea Ross, Eartha Kitt, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, The Killers, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand for The Movie Album (2003), Sarah Vaughan, Nan Vernon, Kid Koala, Westlife, Victoria Williams, The Divine Comedy, Tata Young, Tommy Emmanuel (2010), Helmut Lotti, Chiara Civello, Christine Collister, Oscar Peterson (solo piano), Hirai Ken, Rumer, Kazumasa Oda and Khalil Fong.
Mercer himself recorded the song in 1974 My Huckleberry Friend.
In 2007, saxophonist Dave Koz Barry Manilow
Clay Aiken recorded the song on his 2010 album Tried and True. Aiken's version features a guitar solo by country artist Vince Gill.
In August 2011, Alec Merced recorded a version. - Wikipedia
Performances:
This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011)
Mina performed the song in Canzonissima, the Italian Broadcasting Service series of variety.
Elton John performed the song in his Solo Tour 2003, including the Palais de Festival in Cannes.
Jennifer Love Hewitt performs the song in the biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story, in which Hewitt portrays the actress.
On the singing contest American Idol, Anwar Robinson performed the song during the 2005 season, and Jason Yeager performed the song during the 2008 season.
Canadian turntablist Kid Koala has performed a live version of "Moon River" as part of his sets, mixing and scratching the song on 3 turntables.
In the 1996 Hong Kong film Si Mian Xia Wa ('Four Faces of Eve'), a drunken Chinese man in a nightclub attempts to sing a karaoke version of "Moon River". He sings the lyric in English but with a strong Kowloon accent. His pronunciation of "huckleberry friend" sounds very much like "huckerbelly flend".
Singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf has also sung the opening four lines live as an introduction to his song "The Stars".
It was sung by Niamh on I'd Do Anything.
On the 2003 show, American Juniors, the song was performed by 11 year old contestant, Chauncey Matthews.
In 2009, fashion designer Malan Breton of Project Runway Season 3 performed the song live at a dedication ceremony to Johnny Mercer's 100th.
Eric Clapton performed the song at the London O2 Arena on February 13 and 14 and at Madison Square Garden in New York on February 17 and 18 of 2010 as part of his shows with fellow guitar great Jeff Beck.
Morrissey occasionally performs the song in concert performances, changi
3:26
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: user name
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance
1:37
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here...
published: 15 May 2012
author: eleetmag
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here
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Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5...
published: 18 May 2012
author: Kinnik Sky
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5
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Mandisa - Any Man of Mine
Mandisa, form American Idol 5, singing Any Man Of Mine, by Shania Twain. She was eliminate...
published: 13 Nov 2011
author: acredawn
Mandisa - Any Man of Mine
Mandisa, form American Idol 5, singing Any Man Of Mine, by Shania Twain. She was eliminated after this performance.Please comment!
- published: 13 Nov 2011
- views: 76641
- author: acredawn
3:13
American Idol Season 4 - Top 5 Worst Auditions
American Idol Season 4 - Top 5 Worst Auditions :D must see. subscribe to me for more....
published: 08 Jun 2009
author: mmdpl81
American Idol Season 4 - Top 5 Worst Auditions
American Idol Season 4 - Top 5 Worst Auditions :D must see. subscribe to me for more.
- published: 08 Jun 2009
- views: 808244
- author: mmdpl81
4:51
Carrie Underwood American Idol Season 4 Finale
Carrie's winning moment and singing Inside Your Heaven.
American Idol Season 4 Finale...
published: 08 Jun 2009
author: mmdpl81
Carrie Underwood American Idol Season 4 Finale
Carrie's winning moment and singing Inside Your Heaven.
American Idol Season 4 Finale
- published: 08 Jun 2009
- views: 687586
- author: mmdpl81
4:10
American Idol Season 5 Final Four Elvis Medley
Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliot Yamin and Chris Daughtry singing an Elvis Medley in...
published: 08 Jun 2009
author: mmdpl81
American Idol Season 5 Final Four Elvis Medley
Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliot Yamin and Chris Daughtry singing an Elvis Medley in the Final 4 of American Idol Season 5.
- published: 08 Jun 2009
- views: 133550
- author: mmdpl81
9:56
The American Idol Season 6 Top 6 sings Bon Jovi
Phil Stacey, Jordin Sparks, LaKisha Jones, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson and Melinda Dooli...
published: 08 Jun 2009
author: mmdpl81
The American Idol Season 6 Top 6 sings Bon Jovi
Phil Stacey, Jordin Sparks, LaKisha Jones, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson and Melinda Doolittle in a breathtaking part of the competition where they fight for the Final 4. They took the music of Bon Jovi and in my opinion, this is one of the best AMERICAN IDOL episodes of all times....
- published: 08 Jun 2009
- views: 12336
- author: mmdpl81
9:50
American Idol Season 6 Top 24
A video with clips of each American Idol Season 6 Top 24 contestant's best performance:
A...
published: 08 Jun 2009
author: mmdpl81
American Idol Season 6 Top 24
A video with clips of each American Idol Season 6 Top 24 contestant's best performance:
Amy Krebs: "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Paul Kim: "Careless Whisper"
Nicole Tranquillo: "Stay"
Rudy Cardenas: "Free Ride"
Nick Pedro: "Fever"
Alaina Alexander: "Brass In Pocket"
AJ Tabaldo: "Feeling Good"
Leslie Hunt: "Natural Woman"
Jarred Cotter: "Back At One"
Antonella Barba: "Put Your Records On"
Sabrina Sloan: "All The Man That I Need"
Sundance Head: "Mustang Sally"
Brandon Rogers: "Rock With You"
Stephanie Edwards: "How Come You Don't Call Me?"
Chris Sligh: "She's Not There"
Gina Glocksen: "I'll Stand By You"
Haley Scarnato: "Tell Him"
Sanjaya Malakar: "You Really Got Me"
Phil Stacey: "Blaze of Glory"
Chris Richardson: "Smooth"
LaKisha Jones: "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"
Melinda Doolitte: "I'm A Woman"
Blake Lewis: "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Jordin Sparks: "Broken Wing"
- published: 08 Jun 2009
- views: 81335
- author: mmdpl81
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15:01
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 196...
published: 10 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Thomas
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams' version was disliked by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers.[citation needed] Andy Williams' version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962.
The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.
Moon River
Henry Mancini - Moon River-1961.ogg
Theme of Moon River composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
Comments about the song have noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States.
Audrey Hepburn.
Jerry Butler Danny Williams Andy Williams Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (instrumental), Aretha Franklin, Ann Margret in 1962, Jonny Fair (Live), Lena Horne, Nico Fidenco in italian (1962), Jay and the Americans (1962), Bobby Solo in italian (1966), The Afghan Whigs, Paul Anka, Blake, Louis Armstrong, Vic Damone, Billy Stewart in 1965, Bobby Vinton in 1965, Vince Guaraldi, Beru Revue, Mary Black, Sarah Brightman, Liz Callaway, Perry Como, Ben E. King, Ray Conniff, Bobby Darin, Ania Dąbrowska, Dr. John, Dump, Billy Eckstine, The Four Freshmen, Connie Francis, Bill Frisell , Emi Fujita, Judy Garland, Duane Eddy Karel Gott, Grant Green Patty Griffin Milla Jovovich), Bradley Joseph (instrumental), Kim Yoo-jin, James Last, Trini Lopez, Lisa Ono, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mathis, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, Morrissey, Willie Nelson, Patsy Ann Noble, Eddi Reader, Jim Reeves, John Barrowman, R.E.M., Katie Melua, Andrea Ross, Eartha Kitt, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, The Killers, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand for The Movie Album (2003), Sarah Vaughan, Nan Vernon, Kid Koala, Westlife, Victoria Williams, The Divine Comedy, Tata Young, Tommy Emmanuel (2010), Helmut Lotti, Chiara Civello, Christine Collister, Oscar Peterson (solo piano), Hirai Ken, Rumer, Kazumasa Oda and Khalil Fong.
Mercer himself recorded the song in 1974 My Huckleberry Friend.
In 2007, saxophonist Dave Koz Barry Manilow
Clay Aiken recorded the song on his 2010 album Tried and True. Aiken's version features a guitar solo by country artist Vince Gill.
In August 2011, Alec Merced recorded a version. - Wikipedia
Performances:
This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011)
Mina performed the song in Canzonissima, the Italian Broadcasting Service series of variety.
Elton John performed the song in his Solo Tour 2003, including the Palais de Festival in Cannes.
Jennifer Love Hewitt performs the song in the biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story, in which Hewitt portrays the actress.
On the singing contest American Idol, Anwar Robinson performed the song during the 2005 season, and Jason Yeager performed the song during the 2008 season.
Canadian turntablist Kid Koala has performed a live version of "Moon River" as part of his sets, mixing and scratching the song on 3 turntables.
In the 1996 Hong Kong film Si Mian Xia Wa ('Four Faces of Eve'), a drunken Chinese man in a nightclub attempts to sing a karaoke version of "Moon River". He sings the lyric in English but with a strong Kowloon accent. His pronunciation of "huckleberry friend" sounds very much like "huckerbelly flend".
Singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf has also sung the opening four lines live as an introduction to his song "The Stars".
It was sung by Niamh on I'd Do Anything.
On the 2003 show, American Juniors, the song was performed by 11 year old contestant, Chauncey Matthews.
In 2009, fashion designer Malan Breton of Project Runway Season 3 performed the song live at a dedication ceremony to Johnny Mercer's 100th.
Eric Clapton performed the song at the London O2 Arena on February 13 and 14 and at Madison Square Garden in New York on February 17 and 18 of 2010 as part of his shows with fellow guitar great Jeff Beck.
Morrissey occasionally performs the song in concert performances, changi
3:26
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: user name
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance
1:37
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here...
published: 15 May 2012
author: eleetmag
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here
1:37
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5...
published: 18 May 2012
author: Kinnik Sky
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5
Youtube results:
1:37
Lakia Hill audition on American Idol Season 6
THE MOST AMAZING IDOL AUDITION OF SEASON 6! Lakia Hill audition Season 6...
published: 08 Jun 2009
author: mmdpl81
Lakia Hill audition on American Idol Season 6
THE MOST AMAZING IDOL AUDITION OF SEASON 6! Lakia Hill audition Season 6
- published: 08 Jun 2009
- views: 20117
- author: mmdpl81
3:59
Kelly Clarkson Chris Daughtry - Fast Car
rock music, classic rock, diva, pop music, guitar, live music, hard rock, indie rock --- Y...
published: 12 Apr 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Kelly Clarkson Chris Daughtry - Fast Car
rock music, classic rock, diva, pop music, guitar, live music, hard rock, indie rock --- You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere / Maybe we make a deal / Maybe together we can get somewhere / Any place is better / Starting from zero got nothing to lose / Maybe we'll make something / But me myself I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car / And I got a plan to get us out of here / I been working at the convenience store / Managed to save just a little bit of money / We won't have to drive too far / Just 'cross the border and into the city / You and I can both get jobs / And finally see what it means to be living
You see my old man's got a problem / He live with the bottle that's the way it is / He says his body's too old for working / I say his body's too young to look like his / My mama went off and left him / She wanted more from life than he could give / I said somebody's got to take care of him / So I quit school and that's what I did
You got a fast car / But is it fast enough so we can fly away / We gotta make a decision / We leave tonight or live and die this way
I remember we were driving driving in your car / The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk / City lights lay out before us / And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder / And I had a feeling that I belonged / And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
You got a fast car / And we go cruising to entertain ourselves / You still ain't got a job / And I work in a market as a checkout girl / I know things will get better / You'll find work and I'll get promoted / We'll move out of the shelter / Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car / And I got a job that pays all our bills / You stay out drinking late at the bar / See more of your friends than you do of your kids / I'd always hoped for better / Thought maybe together you and me would find it / I got no plans I ain't going nowhere / So take your fast car and keep on driving
You got a fast car / But is it fast enough so you can fly away / You gotta make a decision / You leave tonight or live and die this way
acoustic music, alternative rock, classics, rock, teen music, blues music, concert, live concert, teen television, pop artist, dance, music
- published: 12 Apr 2011
- views: 51430
- author: Jason Ejercito
1:17
American Idol 5 - Mandisa´s Audition
She was the bomb...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
American Idol 5 - Mandisa´s Audition
She was the bomb
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 608097
- author: Jason Ejercito
5:10
Mandisa - Never
AI 5 - Top 24 stage...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Mandisa - Never
AI 5 - Top 24 stage
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 12110
- author: Jason Ejercito
3:28
Kellie Pickler Audition for American Idol
This is my favorite american idol audition !
Kellie Dawn Pickler was born on 28 June 1986...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Kellie Pickler Audition for American Idol
This is my favorite american idol audition !
Kellie Dawn Pickler was born on 28 June 1986 in Albemarle, North Carolina, USA.
Kellie placed 6th in the fifth season of american idol
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 4386747
- author: Jason Ejercito
9:51
Kellie Pickler American Idol Performances
Kellie Pickler's American Idol Performances...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Kellie Pickler American Idol Performances
Kellie Pickler's American Idol Performances
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 348070
- author: Jason Ejercito
1:12
Ayla Brown Makes the Top 24
Ayla's EP 'Circles' is now available to purchase at iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/yh5ch5o
Ay...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Ayla Brown Makes the Top 24
Ayla's EP 'Circles' is now available to purchase at iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/yh5ch5o
Ayla makes the Top 24 on "American Idol" (original airdate: 2/15/06).
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 63395
- author: Jason Ejercito
3:31
Paris Bennett audition
Paris Bennett's audition...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Paris Bennett audition
Paris Bennett's audition
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 152583
- author: Jason Ejercito
1:43
Midnight Train to Georgia
It appears this girl is made of music......
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Midnight Train to Georgia
It appears this girl is made of music...
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 52303
- author: Jason Ejercito
1:35
Lisa Tucker Audition
Lisa AI audirion in Denver...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Lisa Tucker Audition
Lisa AI audirion in Denver
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 275584
- author: Jason Ejercito
2:43
lisa tucker i am chaging
the best performances of the night...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
lisa tucker i am chaging
the best performances of the night
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 8979
- author: Jason Ejercito
2:22
American Idol Season 5 - Katharine McPhee audition
katharine's audition...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
American Idol Season 5 - Katharine McPhee audition
katharine's audition
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 4722246
- author: Jason Ejercito
1:13
Katharine Mcphee - I'll Never Love This Way Again
Kat on AI5 Hollywood Week, Individual Performance...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Katharine Mcphee - I'll Never Love This Way Again
Kat on AI5 Hollywood Week, Individual Performance
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 25454
- author: Jason Ejercito
5:55
Katharine Mcphee - Since I Fell For You
Top 24 American Idol 5...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Katharine Mcphee - Since I Fell For You
Top 24 American Idol 5
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 34864
- author: Jason Ejercito
5:49
Patrick Hall - American Idol Top 24
video para blog...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Patrick Hall - American Idol Top 24
video para blog
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 12479
- author: Jason Ejercito
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15:01
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 196...
published: 10 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Thomas
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams' version was disliked by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers.[citation needed] Andy Williams' version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962.
The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.
Moon River
Henry Mancini - Moon River-1961.ogg
Theme of Moon River composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
Comments about the song have noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States.
Audrey Hepburn.
Jerry Butler Danny Williams Andy Williams Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (instrumental), Aretha Franklin, Ann Margret in 1962, Jonny Fair (Live), Lena Horne, Nico Fidenco in italian (1962), Jay and the Americans (1962), Bobby Solo in italian (1966), The Afghan Whigs, Paul Anka, Blake, Louis Armstrong, Vic Damone, Billy Stewart in 1965, Bobby Vinton in 1965, Vince Guaraldi, Beru Revue, Mary Black, Sarah Brightman, Liz Callaway, Perry Como, Ben E. King, Ray Conniff, Bobby Darin, Ania Dąbrowska, Dr. John, Dump, Billy Eckstine, The Four Freshmen, Connie Francis, Bill Frisell , Emi Fujita, Judy Garland, Duane Eddy Karel Gott, Grant Green Patty Griffin Milla Jovovich), Bradley Joseph (instrumental), Kim Yoo-jin, James Last, Trini Lopez, Lisa Ono, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mathis, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, Morrissey, Willie Nelson, Patsy Ann Noble, Eddi Reader, Jim Reeves, John Barrowman, R.E.M., Katie Melua, Andrea Ross, Eartha Kitt, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, The Killers, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand for The Movie Album (2003), Sarah Vaughan, Nan Vernon, Kid Koala, Westlife, Victoria Williams, The Divine Comedy, Tata Young, Tommy Emmanuel (2010), Helmut Lotti, Chiara Civello, Christine Collister, Oscar Peterson (solo piano), Hirai Ken, Rumer, Kazumasa Oda and Khalil Fong.
Mercer himself recorded the song in 1974 My Huckleberry Friend.
In 2007, saxophonist Dave Koz Barry Manilow
Clay Aiken recorded the song on his 2010 album Tried and True. Aiken's version features a guitar solo by country artist Vince Gill.
In August 2011, Alec Merced recorded a version. - Wikipedia
Performances:
This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011)
Mina performed the song in Canzonissima, the Italian Broadcasting Service series of variety.
Elton John performed the song in his Solo Tour 2003, including the Palais de Festival in Cannes.
Jennifer Love Hewitt performs the song in the biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story, in which Hewitt portrays the actress.
On the singing contest American Idol, Anwar Robinson performed the song during the 2005 season, and Jason Yeager performed the song during the 2008 season.
Canadian turntablist Kid Koala has performed a live version of "Moon River" as part of his sets, mixing and scratching the song on 3 turntables.
In the 1996 Hong Kong film Si Mian Xia Wa ('Four Faces of Eve'), a drunken Chinese man in a nightclub attempts to sing a karaoke version of "Moon River". He sings the lyric in English but with a strong Kowloon accent. His pronunciation of "huckleberry friend" sounds very much like "huckerbelly flend".
Singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf has also sung the opening four lines live as an introduction to his song "The Stars".
It was sung by Niamh on I'd Do Anything.
On the 2003 show, American Juniors, the song was performed by 11 year old contestant, Chauncey Matthews.
In 2009, fashion designer Malan Breton of Project Runway Season 3 performed the song live at a dedication ceremony to Johnny Mercer's 100th.
Eric Clapton performed the song at the London O2 Arena on February 13 and 14 and at Madison Square Garden in New York on February 17 and 18 of 2010 as part of his shows with fellow guitar great Jeff Beck.
Morrissey occasionally performs the song in concert performances, changi
3:26
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: user name
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance
1:37
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here...
published: 15 May 2012
author: eleetmag
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here
1:37
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5...
published: 18 May 2012
author: Kinnik Sky
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5
Youtube results:
3:43
David Radford - Audition
David Radford auditioned on American Idol 5 in Chicago...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
David Radford - Audition
David Radford auditioned on American Idol 5 in Chicago
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 101437
- author: Jason Ejercito
5:32
David Radford - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
David Radford sings Crazy Little Thing Called Love...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
David Radford - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
David Radford sings Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 35691
- author: Jason Ejercito
1:56
Will Makar Audition
Willian Makar first audition on American Idol......
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Will Makar Audition
Willian Makar first audition on American Idol...
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 24009
- author: Jason Ejercito
5:11
Will Maker I want you back
Nice performance of Will Makar in america Idol...
published: 17 May 2011
author: Jason Ejercito
Will Maker I want you back
Nice performance of Will Makar in america Idol
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 19634
- author: Jason Ejercito
5:08
American Idol Finale: Guru Pitka Skit [HQ]
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Looking for affordable and chic dresses?...
published: 06 Jun 2008
author: valerierules12
American Idol Finale: Guru Pitka Skit [HQ]
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- published: 06 Jun 2008
- views: 44084
- author: valerierules12
6:03
American Idol - Top 9 Elimination - Ramiele Malubay
Elimination of Ramiele Malubay
AMERICAN IDOL TOP 9 ELIMINATION 04/02/08 and last performa...
published: 05 Apr 2008
author: valerierules12
American Idol - Top 9 Elimination - Ramiele Malubay
Elimination of Ramiele Malubay
AMERICAN IDOL TOP 9 ELIMINATION 04/02/08 and last performance
(Look At My Channel For More)
- published: 05 Apr 2008
- views: 41782
- author: valerierules12
2:03
American Idol - Top 12 - Horton Hears A Who Premiere
This is the top 12 American Idol contestants at the Horton Hears a Who Premiere!
ENJOY!
...
published: 17 Mar 2008
author: valerierules12
American Idol - Top 12 - Horton Hears A Who Premiere
This is the top 12 American Idol contestants at the Horton Hears a Who Premiere!
ENJOY!
Thanks http://www.Archuletafans.com
I do not own this video. I'm not affliated with American Idol or it's producers in anyway. Thanks
- published: 17 Mar 2008
- views: 2303
- author: valerierules12
5:28
Brooke White -"You're so Vain"
Please Like/Fav/Subscribe ★
American Idol Season 7.
Top 20 finalist Brooke White singing "...
published: 05 Jun 2008
author: valerierules12
Brooke White -"You're so Vain"
Please Like/Fav/Subscribe ★
American Idol Season 7.
Top 20 finalist Brooke White singing "You're so Vain" by Carly Simon.
February 27, 2008.
(courtesy Freemantle Int'l)
- published: 05 Jun 2008
- views: 441333
- author: valerierules12
1:53
American Idol - Carly Smithson - Crazy On You
(02.27.08) American Idol 7 - Top 10 Females...
published: 14 Jun 2008
author: valerierules12
American Idol - Carly Smithson - Crazy On You
(02.27.08) American Idol 7 - Top 10 Females
- published: 14 Jun 2008
- views: 165016
- author: valerierules12
2:30
Blake Lewis & Jordin Sparks - I Saw Her Standing There
Blake and Jordin duet on "I Saw Her Standing There" on the finale of AI. Thanks, nobody!...
published: 02 Mar 2008
author: valerierules12
Blake Lewis & Jordin Sparks - I Saw Her Standing There
Blake and Jordin duet on "I Saw Her Standing There" on the finale of AI. Thanks, nobody!
- published: 02 Mar 2008
- views: 140448
- author: valerierules12
2:04
Blake Lewis - You Give Love A Bad Name(Bon Jovi)
Blake Lewis does a remake of Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name on American Idol...
published: 02 Mar 2008
author: valerierules12
Blake Lewis - You Give Love A Bad Name(Bon Jovi)
Blake Lewis does a remake of Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name on American Idol
- published: 02 Mar 2008
- views: 3093195
- author: valerierules12
2:44
American Idol Top 8 Group Performance
American Idol Top 8...
published: 27 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
American Idol Top 8 Group Performance
American Idol Top 8
- published: 27 Feb 2008
- views: 135024
- author: valerierules12
1:40
Top 9 Elimination Results
American Idol Top 9...
published: 23 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
Top 9 Elimination Results
American Idol Top 9
- published: 23 Feb 2008
- views: 10371
- author: valerierules12
3:07
Hollywood - Day 2
Antonella Barba finds out she has made it to the top 24. Video is a part of antonella-barb...
published: 14 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
Hollywood - Day 2
Antonella Barba finds out she has made it to the top 24. Video is a part of antonella-barba.net.
- published: 14 Feb 2008
- views: 52966
- author: valerierules12
1:22
Idol Shocker!
Idol isn't Idol without it's shockers. This one from AI5's Top 4 elimination show is by fa...
published: 23 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
Idol Shocker!
Idol isn't Idol without it's shockers. This one from AI5's Top 4 elimination show is by far the biggest shocker of all. Enjoy the creative editing! :)
- published: 23 Feb 2008
- views: 191768
- author: valerierules12
2:04
Taylor Hicks is safe, but has to choose...
Taylor Hicks has to choose which group is the bottom 3....
published: 24 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
Taylor Hicks is safe, but has to choose...
Taylor Hicks has to choose which group is the bottom 3.
- published: 24 Feb 2008
- views: 14019
- author: valerierules12
3:51
Queen Medley - American Idol 5 - Top8
Group song at the Top8 American Idol season 5 LOVE IT!...
published: 24 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
Queen Medley - American Idol 5 - Top8
Group song at the Top8 American Idol season 5 LOVE IT!
- published: 24 Feb 2008
- views: 117352
- author: valerierules12
3:24
Carrie underwood-Man i feel like a woman
This is one of carrie's performances on American Idol that randi pict for her...
published: 02 Sep 2007
author: valerierules12
Carrie underwood-Man i feel like a woman
This is one of carrie's performances on American Idol that randi pict for her
- published: 02 Sep 2007
- views: 270519
- author: valerierules12
Vimeo results:
15:01
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 196...
published: 10 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Thomas
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Album #9 (Fantastic 1950s & 1960s Music)
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams' version was disliked by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers.[citation needed] Andy Williams' version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962.
The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.
Moon River
Henry Mancini - Moon River-1961.ogg
Theme of Moon River composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
Comments about the song have noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States.
Audrey Hepburn.
Jerry Butler Danny Williams Andy Williams Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (instrumental), Aretha Franklin, Ann Margret in 1962, Jonny Fair (Live), Lena Horne, Nico Fidenco in italian (1962), Jay and the Americans (1962), Bobby Solo in italian (1966), The Afghan Whigs, Paul Anka, Blake, Louis Armstrong, Vic Damone, Billy Stewart in 1965, Bobby Vinton in 1965, Vince Guaraldi, Beru Revue, Mary Black, Sarah Brightman, Liz Callaway, Perry Como, Ben E. King, Ray Conniff, Bobby Darin, Ania Dąbrowska, Dr. John, Dump, Billy Eckstine, The Four Freshmen, Connie Francis, Bill Frisell , Emi Fujita, Judy Garland, Duane Eddy Karel Gott, Grant Green Patty Griffin Milla Jovovich), Bradley Joseph (instrumental), Kim Yoo-jin, James Last, Trini Lopez, Lisa Ono, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mathis, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, Morrissey, Willie Nelson, Patsy Ann Noble, Eddi Reader, Jim Reeves, John Barrowman, R.E.M., Katie Melua, Andrea Ross, Eartha Kitt, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, The Killers, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand for The Movie Album (2003), Sarah Vaughan, Nan Vernon, Kid Koala, Westlife, Victoria Williams, The Divine Comedy, Tata Young, Tommy Emmanuel (2010), Helmut Lotti, Chiara Civello, Christine Collister, Oscar Peterson (solo piano), Hirai Ken, Rumer, Kazumasa Oda and Khalil Fong.
Mercer himself recorded the song in 1974 My Huckleberry Friend.
In 2007, saxophonist Dave Koz Barry Manilow
Clay Aiken recorded the song on his 2010 album Tried and True. Aiken's version features a guitar solo by country artist Vince Gill.
In August 2011, Alec Merced recorded a version. - Wikipedia
Performances:
This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011)
Mina performed the song in Canzonissima, the Italian Broadcasting Service series of variety.
Elton John performed the song in his Solo Tour 2003, including the Palais de Festival in Cannes.
Jennifer Love Hewitt performs the song in the biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story, in which Hewitt portrays the actress.
On the singing contest American Idol, Anwar Robinson performed the song during the 2005 season, and Jason Yeager performed the song during the 2008 season.
Canadian turntablist Kid Koala has performed a live version of "Moon River" as part of his sets, mixing and scratching the song on 3 turntables.
In the 1996 Hong Kong film Si Mian Xia Wa ('Four Faces of Eve'), a drunken Chinese man in a nightclub attempts to sing a karaoke version of "Moon River". He sings the lyric in English but with a strong Kowloon accent. His pronunciation of "huckleberry friend" sounds very much like "huckerbelly flend".
Singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf has also sung the opening four lines live as an introduction to his song "The Stars".
It was sung by Niamh on I'd Do Anything.
On the 2003 show, American Juniors, the song was performed by 11 year old contestant, Chauncey Matthews.
In 2009, fashion designer Malan Breton of Project Runway Season 3 performed the song live at a dedication ceremony to Johnny Mercer's 100th.
Eric Clapton performed the song at the London O2 Arena on February 13 and 14 and at Madison Square Garden in New York on February 17 and 18 of 2010 as part of his shows with fellow guitar great Jeff Beck.
Morrissey occasionally performs the song in concert performances, changi
3:26
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: user name
Anthony Fedorov - Incomplete American Idol
American Idol Season 4 Top 5 Performance
1:37
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here...
published: 15 May 2012
author: eleetmag
American Idol - Kinnik Sky - Get Here
American Idol - Season 5 Kinnik Sky - Get here
1:37
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5...
published: 18 May 2012
author: Kinnik Sky
Kinnik Sky Get Here American Idol
Kinnik Sky's debut performance on American Idol Season 5
Youtube results:
3:51
American Idol 3 - Diana DeGarmo + Fantasia Barrino + Kelly C
American Idol 3 - Diana DeGarmo + Fantasia Barrino + Kelly Clarkson + Ruben Studdard - Imp...
published: 23 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
American Idol 3 - Diana DeGarmo + Fantasia Barrino + Kelly C
American Idol 3 - Diana DeGarmo + Fantasia Barrino + Kelly Clarkson + Ruben Studdard - Impossible Dream (Live On American Idol 3 Finale 05-26-04).mpg
- published: 23 Feb 2008
- views: 65420
- author: valerierules12
3:29
Carmen Rasmusen - Call Me
Carmen Rasmusen singing "Call Me" - American Idol 2 Top 8.
THIS VIDEO AND THE TV SHOW AM...
published: 23 Feb 2008
author: valerierules12
Carmen Rasmusen - Call Me
Carmen Rasmusen singing "Call Me" - American Idol 2 Top 8.
THIS VIDEO AND THE TV SHOW AMERICAN IDOL BELONG TO FREMANTLE MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT!
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| American Idol | |
|---|---|
| Season 5 | |
| Broadcast from | January 17, 2006 – May 24, 2006 |
| Judges | Randy Jackson Paula Abdul Simon Cowell |
| Host(s) | Ryan Seacrest |
| Broadcaster | Fox Broadcasting Company |
| Finals venue | Kodak Theatre |
| Winner: Taylor Hicks |
|
 Taylor Hicks performs for troops aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, docked at Coronado, California in December 2006
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| Origin | Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Song | "Do I Make You Proud" |
| Genre(s) | Soul, blues, blues rock |
| Runner-up | |
| Katharine McPhee | |
| Chronology | |
| ◄ 2006 ► | |
The fifth season of American Idol began on January 17, 2006, and concluded on May 24, 2006. Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell returned to judge, and Ryan Seacrest returned to host. It is the most successful season to date ratings-wise and also with 18 contestants (including all of the top 10 and a few semifinalists) getting record deals – nine of them with major labels. It is the first season with a male winner (Taylor Hicks) and a female runner-up (Katharine McPhee), the second being season 9, the third being season 10, and the fourth being season 11. It was also the first season of the series to be aired in high definition.
Auditions[link]
Auditions were held in seven cities in the summer and fall of 2005.[1][2] An audition was originally planned for Memphis, Tennessee but that was cancelled due to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort that was taking place in the city,[3] and replaced by Las Vegas, Nevada and Greensboro, North Carolina.[4]
| Episode Air Date | Audition City | Date | First Audition Venue | Callback Date | Callback Venue | Golden Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 17, 2006 | Chicago, Illinois | September 16, 2005 | Soldier Field | September 20, 2005 | W Hotel[5] | 34 |
| January 18, 2006 | Denver, Colorado | September 11, 2005 | Invesco Field at Mile High | Colorado Convention Center | 37 | |
| January 24, 2006 | Greensboro, North Carolina | October 3, 2005 | Greensboro Coliseum | October 6, 2005 | Marriott Downtown | 33 |
| January 25, 2006 | San Francisco, California | August 18, 2005 | Cow Palace | Parc 55 Hotel | 18 | |
| January 31, 2006 | Las Vegas, Nevada | October 10–11, 2005 | Las Vegas Convention Center | October 12–13, 2005 | Renaissance Las Vegas[6] | 11 |
| February 1, 2006 | Austin, Texasa | August 25–26, 2005 | Frank Erwin Center | September 28, 2005 | Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco | 12 |
| February 7, 2006 | Boston, Massachusetts | August 31, 2005 | Gillette Stadium | October 27, 2005 | Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center[7] | 28 |
| Total Tickets to Hollywood | 175 | |||||
- ^a Later stages of the Austin auditions were held in San Francisco due to Hurricane Katrina which caused large number of evacuees to be relocated in Texas.[8] The show however made no mention of the venue switch and presented the Austin audition as having taken place entirely in Austin.[9]
Unlike Season Four, no guest judges were involved during the auditions. The season used the same rules as season 4.[10]
One notable auditioner this season was Paula Goodspeed, a fervent fan of Paula Abdul, who auditioned in Austin.[11] In 2008, Goodspeed hit the headlines when she committed suicide outside Abdul's home.[12] Abdul later claimed that she had objected beforehand to Goodspeed being at the audition because she knew Goodspeed and had been frightened by her past behavior, but the producers overrode her objection.[13] The producers Ken Warwick and Nigel Lythgoe however denied being aware of her fears or that they would put her in danger.[14][15]
In Las Vegas, an auditioner Tora Woloshin gained a golden ticket to Hollywood but was disqualified just before she was due to go to Hollywood for unspecified reason. She later appeared in the first season of X-Factor.[16]
Hollywood week[link]
The Hollywood rounds were held at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The first round consisted of solo performances with each contestant choosing a song out of the twelve available. 99 contestants made it to the next round for the group performances. Those who did not impress the judges were cut, and the remaining then performed a solo a cappella. After this round, the contestants were separated into 4 groups, and 3 groups went though with 44 contestants chosen. In the Pasadena Civic Center, each were individually taken via elevator to the judges where the verdict if they would be chosen or not was announced. 20 were cut and the final 24, 12 men and 12 woman, selected.
Semi-finals[link]
The semi-finals began on February 21, with the names announced on February 15. There were three shows each week for the three weeks of the semi-finals. There were no format changes from season 4; it featured 12 male singers and 12 female singers (24 total), with two of each being eliminated each week.
The semi-finalists were announced February 15, 2006. The following are semi-finalists who did not reach the finals.
Female semi-finalists[link]
| Ayla Marie Brown (born July 28, 1988) is from Wrentham, Massachusetts and is six feet tall. She attended high school at Noble and Greenough School and was a star basketball player. In 11th grade, she was the 4th woman to have ever scored 1000 points at Noble and Greenough School. During her junior year, she became only the 20th female to have ever scored 2000 points in a career at the high school stage. Her father, Scott Brown, was then-State Senator from Massachusetts, and her mother, Gail Huff, is a local television personality at WCVB-TV. She also has a sister, Arianna Brown. She had a college basketball scholarship at Boston College. She originally auditioned in Boston, singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." After being voted off American Idol on March 9, 2006, she has continued to tour throughout the New England area, and released with singles "Know You Better" and "I Quit" in September followed the album "Forward" in October. She performed the National Anthem at the 2006 Boston Pops July 4 concert. | |
| Shontai Kinnik Sky Marshall (born May 13, 1977) is from Duluth, Georgia. She auditioned in Greensboro. She was grouped with Nicole Turk, Celeste Scalone and Tyra Schwartz during the group rounds. | |
| Heather Richelle Cox (born November 16, 1983) is from Jonesville, North Carolina. She auditioned in Denver. Grouped with Halicia Thompson and Kellie Pickler during Hollywood group performances. | |
| Brenna Mema Gethers (born October 7, 1980) is from Mount Vernon, New York. She auditioned in Boston, and was known for her "catty" attitude. She's now the lead singer for Bomb Squad, a funk-rock band that won an American Music Award for Best New Music in 2003.[17] | |
| Stephanie "Stevie" Marie Scott (born May 22, 1986 in Fair Oaks, California). She auditioned in Denver. She sang "Emotions" with Hannah Freeman and Paris Bennett during their group performance in Hollywood. She was eliminated on February 23, 2006 along with Becky O'Donohue, Bobby Bennett, and Patrick Hall. She made a cameo appearance on the Top 6 performance show of American Idol on April 25, 2006. | |
| Rebecca "Becky" Clarise O'Donohue (born July 13, 1980) is from Dobbs Ferry, New York. Her original audition was in Boston with her twin sister (who did not sing due to recent throat surgery). Simon Cowell praised her looks, but said no to her voice. She was let through to Hollywood by Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. |
Male semi-finalists[link]
| Gedeon Luke McKinney (born October 1, 1988) was from Memphis, Tennessee. He intended to audition in Memphis, but the auditions there were canceled due to the city's role in relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina. He raised funds to travel to the Chicago auditions by putting on a benefit concert. His elimination was a surprise to many, including Simon Cowell, who had criticized him previously. McKinney's father, Tony McKinney, also a performing artist, died in December 2005 before the show aired. | |
| William John "Will" Makar (born March 2, 1989 in The Woodlands, Texas) is of Ukrainian/English descent. Will attended high school at The Woodlands College Park High School. In high school, Will starred in several musical productions, including The Woodlands College Park High School Musical in January 2006, the performance of which began the day after the airing of the his American Idol audition and was covered by local media. He has also performed for Presidents Clinton and Bush and with singer Celine Dion as part of the Houston Children's Chorus. He has performed the National Anthem at many sporting events and was also a member of the band Last Born. During the Hollywood rounds, he performed Fly Me to the Moon with David Radford and Kevin Covais. Will was signed to Double Deal Brand Records, which also signed fellow top 16 semi-finalist Ayla Brown, and released his debut single titled "I Won't Make It Out" on iTunes on Friday, April 27, 2007. Will began attending Berklee College of Music in 2009. His band is Will Makar and The Red Line. In February 2010, he joined the a cappella group at the college called Pitch Slapped and won an award for his performance of "Got to Get You into My Life" International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.[citation needed]
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| José "Sway" Penala (born January 23, 1978) is from South San Francisco, where he also had his audition for the show. He was the only Asian-American who made it to the semi-finals that season. He's performed with such groups as DnH and 6th Day. When he competed, on stage, Penala often wore a Fedora hat and coat and military dog tags. He developed friendships with Elliott Yamin, Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry during the season. Elliott was also his Hollywood Week group mate and later his roommate. Penala now sings back-up vocals in Yamin's band, and has toured with them on several occasions. | |
| David William Radford (born March 22, 1988 in Crystal Lake, Illinois) is a high school senior at Crystal Lake Central High School.[18] In addition to singing, David plays the trumpet. He originally auditioned in Chicago. | |
| Patrick Aaron Hall (born September 24, 1977 is from Gravette, Arkansas and was seen for the first time in Hollywood. During the Hollywood rounds, Simon Cowell called him 'very likeable', and compared him to Clay Aiken. He received many positive comments during these rounds. To separate himself from the Clay Aiken comparison, however, he chose to perform Come to My Window on the first week of the Top 24. He was eliminated that week. | |
| Bobby Bennett, Jr. born (June 4, 1986) is from Denver and also auditioned there. He is most known for his rousing rendition of the Manilow classic "Copacabana" and was named the "showman" of the semifinalists. He also made an appearance in the March 21 episode on which Barry Manilow performed. He has gone on to perform in night clubs and most notably at "lannies Clock Tower Cabaret" in Denver and has sold out four consecutive times. He also does charity work for the organization "Denver Kids Inc" and mentors young children and adults. He was the headlining performer at the Denver Rotary Club Branch Rickey Awards in 2007. He now resides in Hollywood California and plans to perform his successful night club act in the area. |
Top 24[link]
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Mandisa | "Never"(Heart) | Safe |
| 2 | Kellie Pickler | "How Far"(Martina McBride) | Safe |
| 3 | Becky O'Donohue | "Because the Night"(Patti Smith) | Eliminated |
| 4 | Ayla Brown | "Reflection"(Christina Aguilera) | Safe |
| 5 | Paris Bennet | "Midnight Train to Georgia"(Cissy Houston) | Safe |
| 6 | Stevie Scott | "To Where You Are"(Josh Groban) | Eliminated |
| 7 | Brenna Gethers | "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"(Stevie Wonder) | Safe |
| 8 | Heather Cox | "When You Tell Me That You Love Me"(Diana Ross) | Safe |
| 9 | Melissa MeGhee | "When the Lights Go Down"(Faith Hill) | Safe |
| 10 | Lisa Tucker | "I Am Changing"(Jennifer Holiday) | Safe |
| 11 | Kinnik Sky | "Get Here" (Oleta Adams) | Safe |
| 12 | Katharine McPhee | "Since I Fell for You" (Ella Johnson) | Safe |
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Patrick Hall | "Come to My Window"(Melissa Etheridge) | Eliminated |
| 2 | David Radford | "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"(Queen) | Safe |
| 3 | Bucky Covington | "Simple Man"(Lynyrd Skynyrd) | Safe |
| 4 | Will Makar | "I Want You Back"(The Jackson 5) | Safe |
| 5 | Sway Penala | "Reasons"(Earth Wind & Fire) | Safe |
| 6 | Chris Daughtry | "Wanted Dead or Alive"(Bon Jovi) | Safe |
| 7 | Kevin Covais | "One Last Cry"(Brian McKnight) | Safe |
| 8 | Gedeon McKinney | "Shout"(The Isley Brothers) | Safe |
| 9 | Elliott Yamin | "If You Really Love Me"(Stevie Wonder) | Safe |
| 10 | Bobby Bennet | "Copacabana"(Barry Manilow) | Eliminated |
| 11 | Ace Young | "Father Figure" (George Michael) | Safe |
| 12 | Taylor Hicks | "Levon" (Elton John) | Safe |
Top 20[link]
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Kinnik Sky | "Here for the Party"(Gretchen Wilson) | Bottom 3 |
| 2 | Katharine McPhee | "All in Love Is Fair"(Stevie Wonder) | Safe |
| 3 | Lisa Tucker | "Who's Lovin' You"(The Miracles) | Safe |
| 4 | Melissa McGhee | "Why Haven't I Heard from You"(Reba McEntire) | Safe |
| 5 | Heather Cox | "Hero"(Mariah Carey) | Eliminated |
| 6 | Brenna Gethers | "Last Dance"(Donna Summer) | Eliminated |
| 7 | Paris Bennett | "Wind Beneath My Wings"(Roger Whittaker) | Safe |
| 8 | Ayla Brown | "I Want You to Need Me"(Celine Dion) | Safe |
| 9 | Kellie Pickler | "Something to Talk About"(Bonnie Raitt) | Safe |
| 10 | Mandisa | "Cry"(Angie Aparo) | Safe |
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Hicks | "Easy"(The Commodores) | Safe |
| 2 | Elliot Yamin | "Moody's Mood for Love"(James Moody) | Safe |
| 3 | Ace Young | "If You're Not the One"(Daniel Bedingfield) | Safe |
| 4 | Sway Penala | "Overjoyed"(Earth Wind & Fire) | Eliminated |
| 5 | Bucky Covington | "The Thunder Rolls"(Garth Brooks) | Safe |
| 6 | Kevin Covais | "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"(The Miracles) | Bottom 3 |
| 7 | Will Makar | "Lady"(Kenny Rogers) | Safe |
| 8 | Gedeon McKinney | "A Change Is Gonna Come"(Sam Cooke) | Safe |
| 9 | David Radford | "The Way You Look Tonight"(Fred Astaire) | Eliminated |
| 10 | Chris Daughtry | "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"(Fuel) | Safe |
Top 16[link]
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Paris Bennett | "Conga"(Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine) | Safe |
| 2 | Melissa McGhee | "What About Love"(Heart) | Safe |
| 3 | Kinnik Sky | "If I Ain't Got You"(Alicia Keys) | Eliminated |
| 4 | Lisa Tucker | "Here's Where I Stand"(Tiffany Taylor) | Safe |
| 5 | Katharine McPhee | "Think"(Aretha Franklin) | Safe |
| 6 | Ayla Brown | "Unwritten"(Natasha Bedingfield) | Eliminated |
| 7 | Mandisa | "I'm Every Woman"(Chaka Khan) | Safe |
| 8 | Kellie Pickler | "I'm the Only One"(Melissa Etheridge) | Safe |
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bucky Covington | "Wave on Wave"(Pat Green) | Safe |
| 2 | Chris Daughtry | "Broken"(Seether) | Safe |
| 3 | Will Makar | "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"(Marvin Gaye) | Eliminated |
| 4 | Kevin Covais | "Vincent"(Don McLean) | Safe |
| 5 | Gedeon McKinney | "When a Man Loves a Woman"(Percy Sledge) | Eliminated |
| 6 | Taylor Hicks | "Takin' It to the Streets"(The Doobie Brothers) | Safe |
| 7 | Elliott Yamin | "Heaven"(Bryan Adams) | Safe |
| 8 | Ace Young | "Butterflies"(Michael Jackson) | Safe |
Top 12 finalists[link]
Taylor Reuben Hicks is from Birmingham, Alabama. He is gray-haired and performed "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke at his original audition in Las Vegas. At the first audition, the judges were surprised by his appearance. He performed Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine in the Hollywood round. He is one of the six winners in American Idol history to never be in the bottom three. He won the competition on May 24. |
Katharine Hope McPhee's mother is a vocal coach. She auditioned in San Francisco with Billie Holiday's God Bless the Child, and Randy Jackson said her audition was the best he'd heard yet that season. In the Hollywood round she performed Dionne Warwick's I'll Never Love This Way Again, and I Can't Help Myself for the group round, My Funny Valentine for the last solo. At the end of the first semi-final round, Simon Cowell said that he had heard four very good singers that evening and that McPhee was the best among them. She is from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California. McPhee was the runner-up on American Idol as announced on the May 24 finale. |
Efraym Elliott Yamin was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He started singing at the age of five and did not have any formal training. He auditioned for American Idol in Boston. In the Hollywood week, he performed Rascal Flatts' Bless the Broken Road for the first solo, The Shoop Shoop Song for the group round. After his first semi-final performance, Simon Cowell said that he was potentially the best male vocalist in American Idol history, reprising his praise on Top 6 week after Yamin's "A Song for You", calling it a vocal masterclass; also, in the second round of the semi-finals, Randy Jackson gave Yamin a standing ovation after his rendition of "Moody's Mood for Love". Yamin finished in third place in one of the closest outcomes in Idol history where less than 1% separated the votes of all top three contestants. |
Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry is a former car service worker from McLeansville, North Carolina. During the audition round, he was profiled as a "Rocker Dad." He originally auditioned in Denver with Joe Cocker's The Letter (originally by The Box Tops). In the Hollywood week he performed Samantha Sang's Emotion in the group round. He was eliminated at Top 4 in a surprise result, but had considerable success as a recording artist after the show. |
| Paris Ana'is Bennett , from Fayetteville, Georgia, is the granddaughter of Grammy Award winner Ann Nesby. Her mother and grandmother are apart of the Grammy-winning group, Sounds of Blackness. She sang "Cowboy Take Me Away" by The Dixie Chicks at her original audition in Greensboro. In the Hollywood rounds, she performed LeAnn Rimes's Can't Fight the Moonlight for her solo, and Samantha Sang's Emotion for the group round.
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Lisa Gabrielle Tucker was 16 years old at the time of the show, and is the youngest finalist of this season. She is from Anaheim, California, and she auditioned in Denver with Whitney Houston's One Moment in Time. Simon Cowell called her the "best 16-year-old" ever to audition on the show at the time of her original Denver audition. She was also a runner-up on Star Search but lost to Tiffany Evans. A week after her elimination she appeared in an episode of The O.C. |
Kevin Patrick Covais was 16 years old at the time of the show, and is from Levittown, New York. For his audition in Boston, he sang "You Raise Me Up". In the Hollywood round he performed Shai's If I Ever Fall in Love in the solo. Viewers gave him the nickname "Chicken Little." |
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Melissa Christine McGhee is from Tampa, Florida. She auditioned in Denver. She sang "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by LeAnn Rimes for her audition. She had not sung on camera until her first week in the top 24. |
[edit] Top 12 – Stevie Wonder
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Ace Young | "Do I Do" | Bottom 3 |
| 2 | Kellie Pickler | "Blame It on the Sun" | Safe |
| 3 | Elliott Yamin | "Knocks Me Off My Feet" | Safe |
| 4 | Mandisa | "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" | Safe |
| 5 | Bucky Covington | "Superstition" | Safe |
| 6 | Melissa McGhee | "Lately" | Eliminated |
| 7 | Lisa Tucker | "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | Bottom 2 |
| 8 | Kevin Covais | "Part-Time Lover" | Safe |
| 9 | Katharine McPhee | "Until You Come Back to Me" | Safe |
| 10 | Taylor Hicks | "Living for the City" | Safe |
| 11 | Paris Bennett | "All I Do" | Safe |
| 12 | Chris Daughtry | "Higher Ground" | Safe |
Top 11 – 1950s[link]
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Mandisa | "I Don't Hurt Anymore"(Hank Snow) | Safe |
| 2 | Bucky Covington | "Oh, Boy!"(Buddy Holly) | Bottom 2 |
| 3 | Paris Bennett | "Fever"(Little Willie John) | Safe |
| 4 | Chris Daughtry | "I Walk the Line"(Johnny Cash) | Safe |
| 5 | Katharine McPhee | "Come Rain or Come Shine"(Sy Oliver) | Safe |
| 6 | Taylor Hicks | "Not Fade Away"(The Crickets featuring Buddy Holly) | Safe |
| 7 | Lisa Tucker | "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) | Bottom 3 |
| 8 | Kevin Covais | "When I Fall in Love"(Doris Day) | Eliminated |
| 9 | Elliott Yamin | "Teach Me Tonight"(The DeCastro Sisters) | Safe |
| 10 | Kellie Pickler | "Walkin' After Midnight"(Patsy Cline) | Safe |
| 11 | Ace Young | "In the Still of the Night" (The Five Satins) | Safe |
[edit] Top 10 – 2000s
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Lisa Tucker | "Because of You"(Kelly Clarkson) | Eliminated |
| 2 | Kellie Pickler | "Suds in the Bucket"(Sara Evans) | Safe |
| 3 | Ace Young | "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)"(Train) | Bottom 3 |
| 4 | Taylor Hicks | "Trouble"(Ray LaMontagne) | Safe |
| 5 | Mandisa | "Shackles (Praise You)"(Mary Mary) | Safe |
| 6 | Chris Daughtry | "What If"(Creed) | Safe |
| 7 | Katharine McPhee | "The Voice Within"(Christina Aguilera) | Bottom 2 |
| 8 | Bucky Covington | "Real Good Man"(Tim McGraw) | Safe |
| 9 | Paris Bennett | "Work It Out"(Beyoncé) | Safe |
| 10 | Elliott Yamin | "I Don't Want to Be"(Gavin DeGraw) | Safe |
[edit] Top 9 – Country
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Taylor Hicks | "Take Me Home, Country Roads"(John Denver) | Safe |
| 2 | Mandisa | "Any Man of Mine"(Shania Twain) | Eliminated |
| 3 | Elliott Yamin | "If Tomorrow Never Comes"(Garth Brooks) | Bottom 2 |
| 4 | Paris Bennett | "How Do I Live"(LeAnn Rimes) | Bottom 3 |
| 5 | Ace Young | "Tonight I Wanna Cry"(Keith Urban) | Safe |
| 6 | Kellie Pickler | "Fancy"(Bobbie Gentry) | Safe |
| 7 | Chris Daughtry | "Making Memories of Us"(Keith Urban) | Safe |
| 8 | Katharine McPhee | "Bringing Out the Elvis in Me"(Faith Hill) | Safe |
| 9 | Bucky Covington | "Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)"(Vertical Horizon) | Safe |
[edit] Top 8 – Queen
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Bucky Covington | "Fat Bottomed Girls" | Eliminated |
| 2 | Ace Young | "We Will Rock You" | Bottom 3 |
| 3 | Kellie Pickler | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Safe |
| 4 | Chris Daughtry | "Innuendo" | Safe |
| 5 | Katharine McPhee | "Who Wants To Live Forever" | Safe |
| 6 | Elliott Yamin | "Somebody To Love" | Bottom 3 |
| 7 | Taylor Hicks | "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Safe |
| 8 | Paris Bennett | "The Show Must Go On" | Safe |
[edit] Top 7 – Great American Songbook
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
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| 1 | Chris Daughtry | "What a Wonderful World"(Louis Armstrong) | Bottom 2 |
| 2 | Paris Bennett | "These Foolish Things"(Billie Holiday) | Bottom 3 |
| 3 | Taylor Hicks | "You Send Me"(Sam Cooke) | Safe |
| 4 | Elliott Yamin | "It Had To Be You"(Sam Lanin and his Orchestra) | Safe |
| 5 | Kellie Pickler | "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"(Vivienne Segal) | Safe |
| 6 | Ace Young | "That's All"(Nat King Cole) | Eliminated |
| 7 | Katharine McPhee | "Someone to Watch Over Me"(Gertrude Lawrence) | Safe |
[edit] Top 6 – Love Songs
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katharine McPhee | "I Have Nothing"(Whitney Houston) | Top 2 |
| 2 | Elliott Yamin | "A Song for You"(Leon Russell) | Safe |
| 3 | Kellie Pickler | "Unchained Melody"(Todd Duncan) | Eliminated |
| 4 | Paris Bennett | "The Way We Were"(Barbra Streisand) | Bottom 2 |
| 5 | Taylor Hicks | "Just Once"(James Ingram) | Safe |
| 6 | Chris Daughtry | "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"(Bryan Adams) | Top 2 |
[edit] Top 5 – Year of Birth/Current Billboard Top 10
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elliott Yamin | "On Broadway"(The Crystals) | Bottom 2 |
| 2 | Paris Bennett | "Kiss"(Prince and The Revolution) | Eliminated |
| 3 | Chris Daughtry | "Renegade"(Styx) | Safe |
| 4 | Katharine McPhee | "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"(Phil Collins) | Safe |
| 5 | Taylor Hicks | "Play That Funky Music"(Wild Cherry) | Safe |
| 6 | Elliott Yamin | "Home"(Michael Bublé) | Bottom 2 |
| 7 | Paris Bennett | "Be Without You"(Mary J. Blige) | Eliminated |
| 8 | Chris Daughtry | "I Dare You"(Shinedown) | Safe |
| 9 | Katharine McPhee | "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"(KT Tunstall) | Safe |
| 10 | Taylor Hicks | "Something"(The Beatles) | Safe |
[edit] Top 4 – Elvis Presley
| Order | Contestant | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Hicks | "Jailhouse Rock" | Safe |
| 2 | Chris Daughtry | "Suspicious Minds" | Eliminated |
| 3 | Elliott Yamin | "If I Can Dream" | Safe |
| 4 | Katharine McPhee | "Hound Dog" / "All Shook Up" | Bottom 2 |
| 5 | Taylor Hicks | "In the Ghetto" | Safe |
| 6 | Chris Daughtry | "A Little Less Conversation" | Eliminated |
| 7 | Elliott Yamin | "Trouble" | Safe |
| 8 | Katharine McPhee | "Can't Help Falling in Love" | Bottom 2 |
[edit] Top 3 – Clive Davis's choice/Judges' choice/Contestants' choice
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elliott Yamin | "Open Arms"(Journey) | Eliminated |
| 2 | Katharine McPhee | "I Believe I Can Fly"(R. Kelly) | Safe |
| 3 | Taylor Hicks | "Dancing in the Dark"(Bruce Springsteen) | Safe |
| 4 | Elliott Yamin | "What You Won't Do for Love1"(Bobby Caldwell) | Eliminated |
| 5 | Katharine McPhee | "Over the Rainbow2"(Judy Garland) | Safe |
| 6 | Taylor Hicks | "You Are So Beautiful3"(Billy Preston) | Safe |
| 7 | Elliott Yamin | "I Believe to My Soul"(Ray Charles) | Eliminated |
| 8 | Katharine McPhee | "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"(Duke Ellington) | Safe |
| 9 | Taylor Hicks | "Try a Little Tenderness"(Val Rosing and The Ray Noble Orchestra) | Safe |
- Note 1: Paula Abdul chose this song
- Note 2: Simon Cowell chose this song
- Note 3: Randy Jackson chose this song
Top 2 – Previous Song/Another Previous Song/Winning Song[link]
| Order | Contestant | Song (original artist) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katharine McPhee | "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"(KT Tunstall) | Runner-Up |
| 2 | Taylor Hicks | "Living for the City"(Stevie Wonder) | Winner |
| 3 | Katharine McPhee | "Over The Rainbow"(Judy Garland) | Runner-Up |
| 4 | Taylor Hicks | "Levon" (Elton John) | Winner |
| 5 | Katharine McPhee | "My Destiny"(Katharine McPhee) | Runner-Up |
| 6 | Taylor Hicks | "Do I Make You Proud"(Taylor Hicks) | Winner |
Performers on results shows[link]
- March 15 ~ Stevie Wonder
- March 22 ~ Barry Manilow
- March 29 ~ Shakira and Wyclef Jean
- April 5 ~ Kenny Rogers
- April 12 ~ Final 8 sing a medley of Queen
- April 19 ~ Rod Stewart
- April 26 ~ Andrea Bocelli and David Foster
- May 3 ~ Top 5 perform "Together We Are One" (originally written and sung by Australian singer Delta Goodrem for the 2006 Commonwealth Games)
- May 10 ~ Top 4 perform a medley of Elvis songs
- May 17 ~ Each contestant of the Top 3 performs the song they will be singing on the American Idol Season 5: Encores CD.
Elimination song[link]
A new feature this year, the show now uses a special song to make a tribute to an eliminated contestant's journey on the show, as opposed to before when various different melodic music compositions were played. This year, the song used for an eliminated contestant's flashback tribute was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter.
The finale[link]
On the finale, Carrie Underwood sang "Don't Forget to Remember Me" solo along with the song "Through the Rain" with the 12 finalists. Also, the finalists performed two medleys: one medley was for the female finalists and the other for the male finalists. Several special guests performed with one of the top five Idols: Al Jarreau (Paris Bennett), Live (Chris Daughtry), Meat Loaf (Katharine McPhee), Mary J. Blige (Elliott Yamin) and Toni Braxton (Taylor Hicks). Clay Aiken performed with lookalike auditioner Michael Sandecki, who resembled Aiken circa his 2005 audition. Also, Prince performed without an Idol. Towards the end of the program, the finalists performed "That's What Friends Are For" with Dionne Warwick as well as other songs in the Burt Bacharach canon, with Burt Bacharach playing the piano. Several auditioners from the first round returned to accept "Golden Idol" awards, and to sing. A parody of Brokeback Mountain (though there was no mention of homosexuality) called "Brokenote Mountain," featuring a group of three failed auditioners (Layne Johnson, Michael Evans, and Matthew Buckstein) was replayed from the Hollywood round. The trio "The Brokenote Cowboys" then performed the Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys". In a pre-taped segment, finalist Kellie Pickler ate lunch with Wolfgang Puck at his brasserie as a way of making fun of Kellie's admitted lack of culinary savvy. Finally, just before the results were announced, Hicks and McPhee performed "(I've Had) The Time of My Life".
The chairman of TeleScope Inc., the company which manages the American Idol results, came at the end of the show with the result card. 578 million votes were cast for the season with 63.5 million votes in the finale,[19] and Taylor Hicks was named the winner, the second American Idol winner from the city of Birmingham, Alabama (the first being Ruben Studdard), and the fourth finalist with close ties to the city.
Elimination chart[link]
Note: Bottom 2 indicates that the contestant was 'saved' last. This may or may not indicate his or her actual vote rank.
| Female | Male | Top 24 | Top 12 | Winner |
| Safe | Top 2 | Safe First | Safe Last | Eliminated |
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| 5 | Paris Bennett | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 2 | Elim | ||||||||||
| 6 | Kellie Pickler | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Ace Young | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Elim | ||||||||||
| 8 | Bucky Covington | Bottom 2 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Mandisa | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Lisa Tucker | Bottom 2 | Bottom 3 | Elim | |||||||||||
| 11 | Kevin Covais | Bottom 3 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Melissa McGhee | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 13–16 | Gedeon McKinney | Elim | |||||||||||||
| Ayla Brown | |||||||||||||||
| Will Makar | |||||||||||||||
| Kinnik Sky | Bottom 3 | ||||||||||||||
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| David Radford | |||||||||||||||
| Heather Cox | |||||||||||||||
| Brenna Gethers | |||||||||||||||
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| Becky O'Donohue | |||||||||||||||
DialIdol[link]
Main article: DialIdol
DialIdol is both the name of a computer program for Microsoft Windows and its associated website that began tracking contestants during Season 4 and sprang to prominence at the start of Season 5. The program allows users to automatically vote for the American Idol contestants of their choice using their PC's phone modem. The program then reports back to the main website, which keeps track of the results based on the percentage of calls for each contestant that result in a busy signal. Based on the data received, the website then predicts which contestants may be eliminated or may be in danger of being eliminated. As of May 25, 2006, its predictions for Season 5 were 87% accurate.[20]
This was the first season in which the free U.S. public service website, Zabasearch.com, started to openly present voting results (starting with the top 12 and onward) that it claims are from Cingular and American Idol. It has experienced controversy over the fact that its results change throughout the day until (and often through) the results show.
Controversy[link]
Main article: American Idol controversy
- In January 2006, twins Derrell and Terrell Brittenum were charged with forgery and theft after allegedly using a false identity to purchase a car. This occurred after the "Hollywood" portion of the show was filmed, and the twins were subsequently disqualified.[21]
- Simon Cowell said that he did not like "last year's winner" as much as Kellie Pickler. He has since said that it was a heat of the moment thing, as Carrie Underwood had performed on the show the week before and was not very fond of the performance.
- In January 2006, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) expressed concern about the show's portrayal of some contestants: "The real offense here was in the producer's decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke." Damon Romine, Entertainment Media Director, on January 20.[22]
- In January 2006 The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, NAAFA accused the show of being discriminatory towards its plus sized contestants.
- In February 2006, it was discovered that José "Sway" Penala was reportedly signed to E-Real Records with his band 6th Day, at the time of his audition.
- Two rumors about finalist Katharine McPhee circulated during early March and throughout the season. The first was that she was quitting the show and would not show up for the March 7th airing. The second was sparked by the loose fitting blouses she had been wearing, leading viewers to suspect she was pregnant. Katharine denied both rumors when interviewed by host Ryan Seacrest on the March 7th show.[23]
- During the March 28 show while Mandisa Hundley was singing, her name and phone number came up, but changed for a few seconds and showed Taylor Hicks' name and phone number. At the end of the show the numbers were right.[24]
- Mandisa Hundley was voted out after country week, whereby her rendition of "Any Man of Mine" was not well received as a good song choice. The reason behind her elimination was speculated to be what she said before she began to sing her rendition of "Shackles (Praise You)" by Mary Mary: "This song goes out to everybody that wants to be free. Your addiction, lifestyle and situation may be big, but God is bigger." Many viewers believed that the "lifestyle" stated was regarding the homosexual lifestyle, which she denied, clarifying that the lifestyle she was referring to was her lifestyle of addiction to food. Mandisa is a former employee of the Southern Baptist Convention, having joined the Convention in 2000 as a telephone sales representative for their LifeWay book division, and later in their women's enrichment events area, and later Beth Moore's Living Proof Live events. (Moore's books are published by LifeWay.)[25]
- On the April 25 show, the theme of which was Greatest Love Songs and featured guest coaches Andrea Bocelli and David Foster, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe forced contestant Taylor Hicks to change his song a day before air time (and the same day as the dress rehearsal). Hicks' chosen song was "Try a Little Tenderness," but Lythgoe, in a radio interview, claimed the song was more appropriate for a Blues Brothers week and was not a song that Andrea Bocelli would sing. Hicks changed his song at the last minute to "Just Once" (James Ingram) and appeared very uncomfortable on stage. Hicks fans were distressed, feeling that a) Hicks' original choice of song was very appropriate to the theme; b) The producers changed the song at the last minute even though they must have known Hicks' choice the previous week as they must obtain clearance for all songs; c) Lythgoe's statement that it was not a song Andrea Bocelli would sing was dubious, as other song choices that were approved were songs sung by Bryan Adams ("Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," sung by Chris Daughtry) and Donny Hathaway ("A Song for You," sung by Elliott Yamin).[26]
- During the East Coast transmission of the May 2 show, Paris Bennett was bleeped while singing Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" at the exact point where an obscenity appears in the lyrics. However, Fox confirmed that the song was not bleeped when it was broadcast on the West Coast. Forum posters on the West Coast said Bennett sang the radio edit of the song which excludes the obscenity, leaving viewers nationwide wondering why Bennett was precensored during the earlier live transmission. Paris was eliminated in the results show the day after.[27]
- Following Chris Daughtry's elimination, many Idol fans claimed calls they dialed to Daughtry's line during the first few minutes of voting were misdirected. According to them, the first of his two numbers was answered by a recording of Katharine McPhee (who was also in the bottom two that night) giving thanks for their vote rather than Daughtry.[28] Others reported similar behavior dialing other lines, such as dialing Elliott Yamin's line and hearing a recording of Daughtry giving thanks for their vote.[29]
- On Top 5 night (May 3), Elliott Yamin performed first, with Taylor Hicks going out last. Next week (May 10) Katharine McPhee went out last. It was expected that Yamin would go out last on Top 3 night (May 17), but he was again the first one to sing, losing what is called the "pimp spot", while Hicks was the last one to perform that night. Yamin's fans were distressed stating it was Yamin's right to go out last, while Hicks should have been first, and that the show producers arranged it to have Yamin eliminated next night (May 18), which actually happened.
US Nielsen ratings[link]
American Idol was the top-rated show for the 2005–2006 TV season and occupied the top two positions. The number of viewers for its Tuesday episodes averaged 31.17 million and for the Wednesday episodes 30.16 million.[30] It is still the most-watched of all seasons with an overall average number of viewers of 30.6 million per episode. Click on "show" below to see the rating details.
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[edit] Post Idol
This is the first season that a majority of finalists have major label recording contracts after Idol. Of them – Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry, and Kellie Pickler are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment; Bucky Covington by Universal Music Group; Ace Young and Mandisa by EMI. One other contestant that did not even make the top 24 (Brooke Barrettsmith) was also picked up by Sony BMG, and Universal also picked up Brianna Taylor who also did not make the top 24. Two finalists have a deal with an independent labels – Paris Bennett and Lisa Tucker.[50] The remaining two finalists are unsigned – Kevin Covais, and Melissa McGhee. (Covais, however, has begun an acting career and McGhee has taken part in charity events for Idol Gives Back [51]) Also, five semi-finalists have deals and albums with independent labels – Ayla Brown, Heather Cox, Patrick Hall, Will Makar, Stevie Scott and David Radford. In addition, at least one contestant who was cut before the semi-finals – Bobby Bullard – has also been signed and recorded with a small label.
Taylor Hicks first post-Idol single, "Do I Make You Proud", would debut at number one and be certified gold.[52] Hicks' album, Taylor Hicks, has sold 703,000 copies. He later parted with Arista Records. His follow-up album, "The Distance," was released March 10, 2009 on his own record label Modern Whomp Records.
The fifth-season contestant with the most commercial success is fourth-place finisher Chris Daughtry, now lead singer of the band Daughtry. Their eponymous debut album has sold over 5 million copies to date—surpassing former winners Studdard and Fantasia's respective two-album totals—and produced two top-ten singles. The album, which spent two weeks at number one in the US, is also the fastest-selling debut rock album in Soundscan history.[53]
As of November 2008: Runner-up Katharine McPhee's debut album has sold 374,000 copies; she has two Top 40 Billboard hits. Also notable: sixth-place finisher Kellie Pickler, whose Small Town Girl reached number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and was certified gold. To date it has sold over 815,000 copies. Third-place finisher Elliott Yamin's eponymous debut album was certified gold and produced a platinum-selling single. Eighth-place finisher Bucky Covington's self-titled debut album has sold over 400,000 copies and generated a top 20 and two top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Ninth-place finisher Mandisa's True Beauty album earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album in 2007.
Season five is the season from the first ten seasons of American Idol with the with the most number of finalists who have made it onto the Billboard charts.[54]
Major releases[link]
Compilations[link]
The compilation album for this season was performed by the top twelve finalists.
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American Idol Season 5: Encores
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Alphabetical order by song title
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Albums[link]
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| Chris Daughtry | Daughtry
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| Kellie Pickler | Small Town Girl
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| Taylor Hicks | Taylor Hicks
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| Elliott Yamin | Elliott Yamin
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| Bucky Covington | Bucky Covington
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| Katharine McPhee | Katharine McPhee
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| Mandisa | True Beauty
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| Mandisa | It's Christmas
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| Mandisa | Freedom
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| Elliott Yamin | Fight for Love
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| Chris Daughtry | Leave This Town
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| Chris Daughtry | Break the Spell
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Minor & independent releases[link]
| Artist | Information |
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| Bobby "Bluu Suede" Bullard | The Bluu Suede Project
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| Ayla Brown | Forward (LP)
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| Paris Bennett | Princess P (LP)
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| Ace Young | "Scattered (Digital Download)"
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| Elliott Yamin | "This Christmas (Digital Download)"
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| Katharine McPhee | "I Lost You"/"Dangerous" (Wal-Mart)
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| Patrick Hall | One for the Ages (LP)
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| Josh Royse | Memories
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| David Radford | Swing on By (LP)
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| Stevie Scott | Stevie Scott (EP)
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| Brianna Taylor | Brianna Taylor (EP)
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| Stephanie White | Knee Deep InSanity (CD Baby) |
| Ace Young | Ace Young
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Nominations[link]
In 2006, American Idol also became the most nominated unscripted show ever, and has several nominations in the 2006 Emmy Awards for Season 5:[59]
- Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
- Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music Program or Special – Episode #519
- Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program – Bruce Gowers
- Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Large team entries – Primarily Multi-Camera Productions) – "Audition City: Greensboro"
- Outstanding Lighting Direction – "American Classics Songbook with Rod Stewart"
- Outstanding Lighting Direction – "Finale"
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special or Animation – "American Classics Songbook with Rod Stewart"
- Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series – Episode #530
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Fox announces 'American Idol' 5 audition dates and locations
- ^ These auditions included many who returned to later seasons, such as Melissa Sgambelluri.
- ^ 'American Idol 5' auditions in Memphis canceled due to relief efforts
- ^ 'American Idol 5' adds audition sites in Las Vegas and Las Vegas
- ^ Chicago 'Idol'
- ^ One hotel GM’s Vegas renaissance — thanks to ‘Idol’
- ^ Jenny Anderson took the stage in Hollywood
- ^ "Idol in Austin? Not quite". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on February 4, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070204105045/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/020406dnglidol.20a9816a.html. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
- ^ Think You Know Everything About 'American Idol'? Part 3
- ^ Archive copy at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Paula Goodspeed Myspace!
- ^ Obsessive Fan of Paula Abdul Commits Suicide
- ^ Paula Abdul Lashes Out at Idol Producers
- ^ 'Idol': Producer responds to Paula's claims, previews new season
- ^ Nigel Lythgoe Responds To Paula Abdul’s ‘Idol’ Allegations
- ^ Tora Tora Tora! Is The X Factor’s Tora Woloshin a Fallen Idol?
- ^ Idol's Almost Famous – THE LITTLE DIVA – American Idol : People.com
- ^ http://www.tvguide.com/news/Whos-American-Idol-38683.aspx
- ^ "Telescope Inc". Telescope.tv. Archived from the original on February 16, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080216190533/http://www.telescope.tv/press_idol_06.html. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
- ^ Predictions for elimination of contestants
- ^ 'Idol' Twins Booted for Alleged ID Theft
- ^ Some Online Media Inaccurately Report GLAAD's Concerns About American Idol
- ^ Rumors Circulate That Katharine McPhee Quit American Idol
- ^ More American Idol Phone Number Madness, Wrong Number For Mandisa
- ^ Mandisa, off 'Idol,' says fans' prayers will have 'full force'
- ^ Lythgoe on the radio
- ^ American Idol: Will Bleep Controversy Send Paris Bennett Home?
- ^ http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12748906
- ^ Elliott's votes going to Chris on DI
- ^ I.T.R.S. Ranking Report
- ^ a b AI Week 1
- ^ a b AI Week 2
- ^ a b AI Week 3
- ^ a b AI Week 4
- ^ a b AI Week 5
- ^ a b c AI Week 6
- ^ a b c AI Week 7
- ^ a b c AI Week 8
- ^ a b AI Week 9
- ^ a b AI Week 10
- ^ a b AI Week 11
- ^ a b AI Week 12
- ^ a b AI Week 13
- ^ a b AI Week 14
- ^ a b AI Week 15
- ^ a b AI Week 16
- ^ a b AI Week 16
- ^ a b AI Week 18
- ^ a b AI Week 19 2006
- ^ http://www.compoundent.com/artists/lisa-tucker
- ^ http://www.americanidol.com/news/view/pid/2954/
- ^ "Deep in the bowels of J Records". Gray Charles: The Official Taylor Hicks Weblog. 2006-09-29. http://www.graycharles.com/index.php/2006/09/29/goldplaque/. Retrieved 2006-12-21.
- ^ Posted by IrishJrsyGirl (2010-08-17). "Daughtry News + Blog | The Official Daughtry Site". Daughtryofficial.com. http://www.daughtryofficial.com/news/daughtry-soars-1-spot-billboard-top-200. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
- ^ 'American Idol' and Billboard: James Durbin, Haley Reinhart Become 55th and 56th Finalists on Charts
- ^ http://www.double-deal.com/index.html
- ^ http://www.mm-agency.com/blog/mtv-real-world/brianna-taylor-real-world-hollywood-top-20-itunes/3288/
- ^ PhilthHarmonic on purevolume
- ^ MySpace.com – Stephanie White & The New Jersey Philth Harmonic – Verona/Caldwell, New Jersey – Soul / Rock / R&B – www.myspace.com/philthharmonic
- ^ Fox 2006 Emmy nominations
External links[link]
- Official American Idol Contestants Website
- American Idol (Season 5) at the Internet Movie Database
- American Idol (Season 5) at TV.com
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| Katharine McPhee | |
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 Katharine McPhee performs in 2009. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Katharine Hope McPhee |
| Born | (1984-03-25) March 25, 1984 (age 28) |
| Origin | Los Angeles |
| Genres | Pop, R&B |
| Occupations | Singer, actress, songwriter |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | 19, RCA, Verve Forecast,[1] Columbia[2] |
| Associated acts | Andrea Bocelli, David Foster |
| Website | www.katharinemcphee.com |
Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006, eventually finishing as the runner-up.
Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007 and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200; it has sold 381,000 copies to date.[3] The album's first single, "Over It", was a Pop Top 30 hit and was certified gold in 2008.[4]
Her second album, Unbroken, was released on Verve Forecast Records on January 5, 2010 and debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200. The album featured the single "Had It All", which peaked at number 22 on the Billboard AC chart. It has sold 45,000 copies to date.[5] Her third album, the holiday-themed Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You, was released on October 12, 2010. The album debuted at number eleven on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart while the single "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard AC chart. The album has sold 23,000 copies to date.[5]
McPhee has also established an acting career, co-starring in The House Bunny and "Shark Night 3D", and currently in a starring role in the NBC series Smash.
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Early life[link]
McPhee was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Daniel McPhee, is a television producer. Her mother Patricia Burch McPhee (stage name Peisha Arten), is a vocal coach and accomplished cabaret singer. The family moved to Sherman Oaks in L.A. when Katharine was 12 years old. Katharine's mother recognized her daughter's musical talent and decided to train her. McPhee has an older sister, Adriana. McPhee is of Irish, Scottish, and German descent.[6] McPhee attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, where she performed in school plays and musicals. She graduated in 2002. She attended Boston Conservatory for three semesters, majoring in musical theater. She left college on the advice of her manager and returned to Los Angeles to try out for television pilots. McPhee was cast (during the time she had dropped out of college and was auditioning in Los Angeles) in a mall-based MTV soap opera pilot, You Are Here, playing the older sister of a more popular younger sister. MTV never aired the pilot and did not pick up the series.[7] In March 2005, McPhee starred as Annie Oakley in a Los Angeles-based production of the musical Annie Get Your Gun.[8] McPhee was nominated for an L.A. Stage Ovation Award in the category of "Lead Actress in a Musical".[9] McPhee had a small role as Paramount Girl in the 2007 musical film Crazy, based on the life of Hank Garland.[10] McPhee filmed the role in early 2005, before she auditioned for American Idol.
McPhee has struggled with eating disorders in the past. She told People that at age 13 she began starving herself and exercising compulsively and at age 17 became bulimic.[11] McPhee gained weight in college due to her binging. After seven years of illness, McPhee finally entered a three-month rehabilitation program for her eating disorder after successfully passing her American Idol audition; her rehab stint ended just before the Idol semifinals started in February 2006.[12] During her run on American Idol, she lost 30 lb (14 kg) due to eating better as part of her treatment. Now, as she told Teen Vogue in May 2007, "I eat whatever I crave—I'm just really careful about portions." McPhee and her sister appeared on the debut of The Dr. Keith Ablow Show on September 18, 2006, to discuss her struggles with bulimia and her childhood fear of her father.[13] Also on the show, McPhee stated that she was misdiagnosed with a learning disability during her middle school years but was finally correctly diagnosed with a vision problem that caused her to have trouble reading in class. McPhee claimed she was known as the "pretty but stupid" girl in school because she had trouble reading.
[edit] American Idol
Main article: American Idol (season 5)
McPhee was persuaded by now-husband Nick Cokas and her parents to try out for the television series competition, American Idol. She auditioned in San Francisco and sang "God Bless the Child", originally performed by Billie Holiday. After the first round of Hollywood week, she sang "I'll Never Love This Way Again" by Dionne Warwick which earned favorable comments from the judges. During the second round, she performed in a group, singing "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" by the Four Tops, forgetting the words, but the judges decided to advance the entire group. During the third round, she sang "My Funny Valentine" a cappella and advanced to the top 40. She was mad when fellow group member Crystal Stark did not make the top 24. McPhee's run on American Idol led to the use of the term "McPheever". The inclusion of producer David Foster and singer Andrea Bocelli as guest mentors for Top 6 Week turned out to be a fortuitous introduction for McPhee, as she has worked on various music projects with both men post-Idol. In May 2006, McPhee visited her alma mater Notre Dame High School for her hometown celebration.[14] Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa visited the school and proclaimed the day Katharine McPhee Day.
Performances and results (during voting weeks)[link]
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| Top 24 (12 Women) | Free Choice | "Since I Fell for You" | Ella Johnson | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 20 (10 Women) | Free Choice | "All in Love is Fair" | Stevie Wonder | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 16 (8 Women) | Free Choice | "Think" | Aretha Franklin | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 12 | Stevie Wonder | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" | Stevie Wonder | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 11 | The 1950s | "Come Rain or Come Shine" | Sy Oliver (with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra) | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 10 | Songs from The 21st Century | "The Voice Within" | Christina Aguilera | Bottom 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 9 | Country | "Bringing Out the Elvis" | Faith Hill | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 8 | Songs by Queen | "Who Wants to Live Forever" | Queen | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 7 | The Great American Songbook | "Someone to Watch Over Me" | Gertrude Lawrence | Safe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 6 | Great Love Songs | "I Have Nothing" | Whitney Houston | Top 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 5 | One Song From the Year They Were Born (1984) One Song on the Billboard Charts at the time |
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" |
Phil Collins KT Tunstall |
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| Top 4 | Elvis Presley | "Hound Dog"/"All Shook Up" "Can't Help Falling in Love" |
Big Mama Thornton / Elvis Presley | Bottom 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 3 | Clive Davis's choice Judge's Choice (Simon Cowell) Contestant's Choice |
"I Believe I Can Fly" "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" |
R. Kelly Judy Garland Duke Ellington |
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| Finale | Contestant's Choice Contestant's Choice Coronation Song |
"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" "My Destiny" |
KT Tunstall Judy Garland Katharine McPhee |
Runner-Up |
Career[link]
[edit] 2006–2008: Katharine McPhee album and feature film debut
On June 6, 2006, Sony BMG announced that McPhee had signed to American Idol series creator Simon Fuller's 19 Recordings Limited and Sony BMG's RCA Records.[15] Also in June, McPhee performed at the J.C. Penney Jam: Concert for America's Kids[16], soloing with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and performing a duet with Andrea Bocelli on "Somos Novios".
McPhee's Idol single, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/My Destiny" was released on June 27, 2006 by RCA Records. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 and "My Destiny" peaked at number 60.[17] 32 weeks after its release, Somewhere Over the Rainbow/My Destiny had climbed to number four on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales charts.[18] It was the second highest best-selling single of 2006 after Taylor Hicks' "Do I Make You Proud". "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/My Destiny" remained on the chart for more than 58 weeks.
In July, McPhee missed the first three weeks of the American Idol Tour due to laryngitis and bronchitis.[19] She joined the tour beginning with the July 28 show in Washington, D.C., singing only two songs "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" instead of the usual 4 on doctor's orders to conserve her voice. At the August 1 concert in Charlotte, North Carolina, McPhee suffered a hairline fracture of her foot when she tripped backstage and was fitted with a walking boot cast.[20] Once she recovered from the foot injury, she added "Think" to her concert set.
McPhee recorded a duet with Andrea Bocelli on "Can't Help Falling In Love" for his Under the Desert Sky album, which was released as a CD/DVD package on November 7, 2006.
McPhee signed a two-year endorsement deal in 2006 with Sexy Hair Concepts to become their first celebrity spokesperson for their hair-care product line.[21] Also in 2006, McPhee founded a charity called McPhee Outreach. The purpose of the charity is to team up with other foundations or organizations and help in any way possible.[22] The foundation teamed up with The Lollipop Theater Network to provide music outreach (called "Rhythm of Hope") to sick children in Southern California hospitals.[23] McPhee Outreach teamed up with Global Compassion Services to build a preschool in the West African nation of Burkina Faso to help combat that nation's high illiteracy rate.[22]
McPhee's self-titled debut album, Katharine McPhee was released on January 30, 2007 and sold 116,000 copies its first week, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.[24] The first single from the album was "Over It" peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single, "Love Story" failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100.
In early 2007, McPhee guest-starred in the web series, lonelygirl15 as an unnamed character in the episode "Truth Or Dare".[25] McPhee made a cameo appearance as herself on the ABC show Ugly Betty in the episode "I'm Coming Out".[26] The episode was broadcast February 1, 2007. During the 2007 Christmas holiday season, McPhee released a Christmas single "O Come All Ye Faithful".
On January 11, 2008, it was reported by Billboard.com that McPhee had been released from her contract with RCA Records. A spokesperson for the label stated, "She is going to record her next album on her own."[27]
McPhee signed a two-year endorsement deal with Neutrogena to become the new spokesperson for their anti-acne skin-care product line. In March 2008, she filmed her first commercial, which began airing on television in May 2008 and on Neutrogena's skinid.com website.[28] McPhee appeared on Idol judge Randy Jackson's album Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol. 1, which was released on March 11, 2008. McPhee recorded a duet of "Real Love" with fellow American Idol 5 contestant Elliott Yamin. On March 12, 2008, McPhee returned to the American Idol stage during the Top 12 results night of the seventh season of the competition. She performed the Beatles song "Something", with producer David Foster, on piano. After the performance, Foster indicated that he and McPhee were collaborating on her second studio album (though it ended up he was not part of the finished product). McPhee took part in the David Foster tribute concert Hit Man: David Foster & Friends, which was filmed by PBS, in May 2008.[29] She soloed on "Somewhere" and performed a duet of "The Prayer" with Andrea Bocelli. A CD/DVD was released in November 2008. David Foster recorded "I Will Be There With You" for Japan Airlines (JAL), with McPhee on vocals. Starting in June 2008, it was used to promote the introduction of new aircraft to JAL's US flights.[30]
McPhee made her studio acting debut in the comedy The House Bunny, co-starring as one of the few members of a misfit sorority. The movie, released in August 2008, starred Anna Faris as a Playboy Bunny who took the girls under her wing. It was directed by Fred Wolf for Columbia Pictures and produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions. McPhee released a cover of the song "I Know What Boys Like", featuring the other cast members of the movie The House Bunny. McPhee took part in the concert Chris Botti: Live In Boston, which was filmed by PBS, in September 2008.[31] She sang "I've Got You Under My Skin" accompanied by Chris Botti on trumpet. The concert was shown several times on PBS starting in January 2009. The CD/DVD and Blu-ray were released March 31, 2009.
[edit] 2009-2010: Unbroken album and TV and movie projects
It was announced on January 27, 2009 that McPhee had signed a new record deal with Verve Forecast Records (part of the Verve Music Group under Universal Music Group).[1]
McPhee guest starred on the CBS show CSI: NY in the episode "Prey" as a singer and stalker victim who murdered her stalker. The episode was broadcast April 8, 2009.[32][33] In early 2009, McPhee was cast in a lead role in the independent romantic-comedy You May Not Kiss the Bride.[34] The budget was set at $6 million. The movie filmed for 5 weeks in March and April 2009 in Oahu, Hawaii. McPhee played the role of Masha, alongside Dave Annable.[35] The film debuted at the 14th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival that was held April 6–10, 2011[36] The film has not been released theatrically yet. McPhee joined actresses Alyson Hannigan, Jaime King, Minka Kelly and Emily Deschanel in a video slumber party made available in October 2009 and featured on FunnyorDie.com and other Internet platforms in a comedic take to promote regular breast cancer screenings for the organization Stand Up To Cancer.[37] A Christmas single "I'll Be Home for Christmas" was released November 17, 2009. In September 2009, McPhee took part in the United Negro College Fund's "An Evening of Stars" concert that was a tribute to singer/songwriter Lionel Richie. McPhee sang You Are. The concert was broadcast in syndication and on BET the weekend of January 23-24, 2010. A 2-disc DVD of the concert is available through a donation to the United Negro College Fund.
McPhee's second album Unbroken was released January 5, 2010 and debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 15,000 copies its first week.[38] For her second effort, McPhee worked with producer John Alagia. The first single from the album, "Had It All" was released to McPhee's MySpace page on August 25, 2009. McPhee appeared on the Jan 19, 2010 episode of the NBC reality show The Biggest Loser (its ninth season) in the show's Pound for Pound Challenge segment (an initiative to challenge viewers to get healthy while helping to fight hunger in their own communities). McPhee was shown volunteering at a Los Angeles food bank and meeting with children at a Boys and Girls Club and talking about the importance of helping to fight hunger in America. On February 1, 2010, McPhee joined over 75 other musicians, including fellow American Idol alumni Jennifer Hudson and Jordin Sparks and American Idol judge Randy Jackson, for a remake of "We Are the World", retitled "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", which marked the 25th anniversary of the iconic song and for which proceeds will go to Haitian earthquake relief.[39] On February 22, 2010, McPhee appeared in the production of 110 Stories, directed by Mark Freiburger at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She co-starred alongside Ed Asner, Diane Venora, Gail O'Grady, John Hawkes, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and many others. The play was a benefit to help the victims of the recent Haiti earthquake. Proceeds went to the Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles.[40]
During the week of February 8, 2010, in the pre-taped Hollywood Week portion of Season 9 of American Idol, contestant Didi Benami was shown singing "Terrified", a song on the Unbroken album and written by Idol judge Kara DioGuardi. As a result of the exposure on Idol, digital downloads of the song (the album version featuring Jason Reeves) rose nearly 10,000% from the week before, selling about 20,000 copies for the week, for a total of 22,000 sold at that point.[41] On May 4, 2010, a new version of the Unbroken song "Terrified" featuring actor Zachary Levi premiered on Entertainment Weekly's website and was made available for purchase on iTunes. The accompanying music video premiered on May 7, 2010 on the music video website Vevo. On March 9, 2010, McPhee performed "Surrender" at the White House, in front of President Obama and the First Lady as part of International Women's Day. [42] McPhee guest starred on the NBC comedy Community in the episode "Basic Genealogy" as Chevy Chase's character's ex-stepdaughter and potential love interest for Joel McHale's character. The episode was broadcast March 11, 2010. [43]
In April 2010, McPhee made a TV pilot for a new comedy series for NBC called The Pink House. McPhee played Emily, a down-to-earth Midwestern girl new to Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles.[44] The pilot was shot as a possible pickup for the Fall 2010 season and was produced by Conan O'Brien's production company, with O'Brien as executive producer.[45] Shooting took place April 9, 2010.[46] NBC did not pick up the pilot.[47] In the summer of 2010, McPhee partnered with Feeding America and ConAgra Foods Foundation to help launch the Hunger-Free Summer Initiative, which aimed to help children at risk of hunger during the summer months.[48] Throughout the month of July, McPhee traveled around the country to various Feeding America food banks to raise awareness. In September 2010, McPhee filmed a cameo role in upstate New York for the feature film Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding which stars Jane Fonda and will be in theaters June 8, 2012.[49]
Also in 2010, McPhee was cast in a co-starring role in director David Ellis' shark thriller indie film Shark Night 3D, which filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana for about eight weeks from early September to the end of October 2010. The movie is about a group of college friends who spend a weekend at a lake house, only to find dangerous sharks lurking beneath the surface. The film stars Sara Paxton. The budget is $28 million, and it was released September 2, 2011.[50][51][52][53] McPhee released a Christmas album titled Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You on October 12, 2010. The album debuted at number eleven on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart and sold 1,000 copies in its first week.[54] One of the Christmas album's songs "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was released to radio in November 2010 and peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart. Country singer Chelsea Field's song "Love's Never Leavin'", a song that McPhee co-wrote with singer-songwriter Richard Marx and producer Trey Bruce, was made available for purchase on iTunes on November 9, 2010, with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the Tammany Humane Society in Covington, LA.[55] On December 15, 2010, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital released a video on their website for their Thanks and Giving Campaign that featured McPhee interacting with sick children at the hospital with her song "Lifetime" playing over the soundtrack.[56]
[edit] 2011-2012: Smash series and new record deal
In February 2011, it was announced that McPhee had landed a starring role in the NBC TV pilot Smash,[57] also starring Debra Messing, Megan Hilty, Jack Davenport, Anjelica Huston, Christian Borle, and Brian d'Arcy James.[58] In May 2011, NBC picked up Smash as a series.[59][60] The series, set as a musical drama, follows a group of characters who come together to put on a Broadway musical inspired by Marilyn Monroe. Steven Spielberg is one of the executive producers. The idea was originally developed at Showtime by NBC Entertainment president Robert Greenblatt.[57][61]
On June 9, 2011, it was announced that McPhee had signed a new record deal with Columbia Records (a label under Sony Music Entertainment), in conjunction with Columbia teaming with NBC to distribute the music for Smash.[2] In July 2011, Forbes reported that McPhee was number ten on their list of the 10 Top-Earning American Idols (she was tied with David Archuleta and David Cook), earning $1 million (pre-tax estimates before subtracting manager and agent fees) for music and acting endeavors for the period May 2010 to May 2011.[62]
In December 2011, McPhee became a spokesperson for the Malaria No More organization to help raise awareness about the campaign to eradicate malaria.[63] McPhee recorded a voiceover for the Fox animated series Family Guy, for the episode "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter", playing the voice of Mother Maggie. The episode was broadcast April 1, 2012
NBC debuted Smash in mid-season of the 2011–12 television season[64] on February 6, 2012, to generally favorable reviews, scoring a 79 out of 100 on Metacritic.[65] In March 2012, McPhee traveled to two countries in Africa, Ghana and Burkina Faso, on behalf of Malaria No More to raise awareness and to help distribute mosquito nets.[66] On March 26, 2012, Smash was renewed for a second season.[67]
Personal life[link]
On February 2, 2008, the then 23-year-old McPhee married 42-year-old Nick Cokas at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church.[68]
Discography[link]
Main article: Katharine McPhee discography
- 2007: Katharine McPhee
- 2010: Unbroken
- 2010: Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You
Filmography[link]
Film[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2007 | Crazy | Paramount Girl | Cameo |
| 2008 | The House Bunny | Harmony | Supporting role |
| 2011 | You May Not Kiss the Bride | Masha | Co-star |
| Shark Night 3D | Beth | Co-star | |
| Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding | TBA | Cameo |
Television[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2007 | lonelygirl15 | New Friend | Web series; guest role; episode: "Truth or Dare" |
| Ugly Betty | Herself | Television series; guest role; episode: "I'm Coming Out" | |
| 2009 | CSI: NY | Odessa Shaw / Dana Melton | Television series; guest role; episode: "Prey" |
| 2010 | Community | Amber | Television series; guest role; episode: "Basic Genealogy" |
| 2012–present | Smash | Karen Cartwright | Television series; lead role |
| 2012 | Family Guy | Mother Maggie | Television series; guest role, voice-only; episode: "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter" |
Awards[link]
- Fox Reality Awards 2006, Favorite Hottie
- VH1 2006 Big Awards, Big It Girl
- Young Hollywood Awards 2007, Exciting New Vocalist[69]
Nominations[link]
- Ovation Awards 2005, "Lead Actress in a Musical", for Annie Get Your Gun stage production
- Teen Choice Award 2006 and 2007, Choice Breakout Female Artist
References[link]
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- ^ Yahoo Music Blog: Paul Grein Chart Watch 12-22-2010: "Michael Wouldn't Have Liked This"
- ^ RIAA Database
- ^ a b Idol Chatter 01-19-2011 (9th comment in comments section by IC staffer Brian Mansfield) "Plenty of room for new Idols on the sales chart"
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- ^ Sharpshooting rivals battle on Thousand Oaks stage
- ^ 2005 Ovation Winners
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- ^ "American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee reveals reading disorder and struggles with father to talk show host Dr. Keith Ablow.". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.american-idol/browse_thread/thread/8f4c5a46e77113e7/daa34db3b5de77aa?hl=en#daa34db3b5de77aa. Retrieved September 15, 2006.
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- ^ Ugly Betty at Internet Movie Database
- ^ Halperin, Shirley. "Katharine McPhee: the latest Idol to go indie", Entertainment Weekly, January 9, 2008.
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- ^ USAToday.com "Complete list of We Are the World participants"
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- ^ Update on "The Pink House" – Katharine McPhee Community
- ^ Musician Katharine McPhee Launches U.S. Hunger-Free Summer Initiative for Kids
- ^ Katharine McPhee twitter: New movie
- ^ "Actors Feed 'Shark Night 3-D'", Variety.
- ^ DreadCentral.com: "Snakes on a Plane Director Bringing Us Sharks in 3D in Shark Night"
- ^ "DreadCentral.com "Make a Date with David R. Ellis' 3D Shark Thriller"
- ^ Box Office Mojo: Shark Night 3D
- ^ Idol Chatter 10-20-2010, "Idol album sales: Fantasia, David Archuleta and more"
- ^ The Boot: "Chelsea Field Lends a Hand to Cats, Dogs...and a Vampire"
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kellie Dawn Pickler |
| Born | (1986-06-28) June 28, 1986 (age 25) |
| Origin | Albemarle, North Carolina, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | BNA / 19 Recordings |
| Website | Official Kellie Pickler Site |
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music artist and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol, eventually finishing in sixth place. In 2006, she signed to 19 Recordings and BNA Records as a recording artist, releasing her debut album, Small Town Girl, later that year. To date, it has sold over 800,000 copies. The album, which was certified gold by the RIAA, produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Red High Heels" at number fifteen, "I Wonder" at number fourteen, and "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind" at number sixteen. She released her self-titled second album in Fall 2008 and has produced the singles "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" at number twenty-one, "Best Days of Your Life" at number nine (which she co-wrote with Taylor Swift and her first Top 10 hit), "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" at number fourteen, and "Makin' Me Fall in Love Again" at number thirty. In 2012, she was ranked as the 14th best American Idol alumna.[1]
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Early life[link]
Pickler was born at Stanly Memorial Hospital in Albemarle, North Carolina,, a small town near Charlotte, to Cynthia Morton and Clyde "Bo" Raymond Pickler, Jr. Her mother left when Kellie was 2. Her mother returned and took custody of Kellie for two years.After this the court returned Kellie to her grandparents when she was 12, as her father was in and out of jail during her childhood. From this age to adulthood she was raised by her grandparents.[2] She cites the major influences in her life as her grandfather, Clyde Raymond Pickler, Sr., a former electrician, and grandmother Faye Pickler.[citation needed] Pickler graduated in 2004 from North Stanly High School in New London, North Carolina. She was a cheerleader and beauty queen. She sang "On the Side of Angels" by LeAnn Rimes at her high school graduation.
She worked as a waitress at a Sonic Drive-In franchise and, in 2005, she made an appearance on WSOC-TV's Gimme the Mike! Charlotte contest. She finished in second place. She participated in the Miss America circuit and won the "Miss Stanly County" pageant at age 17 and subsequently competed for Miss North Carolina 2004. She dropped out and later focused on paralegal studies.[3]
[edit] American Idol
Main article: American Idol (season 5)
The 19-year-old Pickler auditioned for American Idol in the fall of 2005 in Greensboro, North Carolina. She sang both Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing". The judges sent her to Hollywood. Pickler advanced through the semi-final rounds in February. On March 9, she reached the Top 12.
Pickler was among judge Simon Cowell's favorites. He once predicted Pickler would be in the final three, and said he preferred her over the previous season's winner, Carrie Underwood.[4] Recognized for her "quirky" personality and Southern charm, Pickler gained attention on the show by saying that she had hardly ever performed before real audiences, and by mispronouncing words.[5] She was compared to Jessica Simpson in a March 27 story in US Weekly magazine titled "Kellie: The Next Jessica Simpson", due to her "sweet Southern style and ditzy demeanor". Pickler has stated several times that she was not heavily exposed to modern pop culture.
Performances and results (during voting weeks)[link]
| Week # | Theme | Song choice | Original artist | Result |
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| Top 24 (12 Women) | N/A | "How Far" | Martina McBride | Safe |
| Top 20 (10 Women) | N/A | "Something to Talk About" | Bonnie Raitt | Safe |
| Top 16 (8 Women) | N/A | "I'm the Only One" | Melissa Etheridge | Safe |
| Top 12 | Stevie Wonder | "Blame It on the Sun" | Stevie Wonder | Safe |
| Top 11 | The 1950s | "Walkin' After Midnight" | Patsy Cline | Safe |
| Top 10 | Songs from The 21st Century | "Suds in the Bucket" | Sara Evans | Safe |
| Top 9 | Country | "Fancy" | Bobbie Gentry | Safe |
| Top 8 | Queen | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Queen | Safe |
| Top 7 | Great American Songbook | "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" | Vivienne Segal | Safe |
| Top 6 | Love songs | "Unchained Melody" | Todd Duncan | Eliminated |
[edit] Post-Idol career
After her elimination, she appeared in numerous shows promoting the TV show and performed the song "Walkin' After Midnight" in some of her appearances.
On May 6, 2006, she returned to Albemarle, North Carolina, for a parade and a reunion with her father. She received a key to the city from the mayor of Albemarle. The mayor also proclaimed the day as "Kellie Pickler Day". Pickler also received numerous awards from local and statewide government officials praising her accomplishments as a contestant on the American Idol television show.[6]
Pickler pursued her recording aspirations in Nashville, Tennessee, shortly thereafter. On July 17, 2006, she signed a record deal with 19 Recordings/BNA Records. She later announced it herself on The View. She was part of the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2006, performing for three months in various cities. During that period, Pickler worked on her album in collaboration with top industry experts in different cities wherever the tour took her.[7]
[edit] 2006–2007: Small Town Girl
See also: Small Town Girl (album)
Her first single, "Red High Heels", debuted on September 13, 2006, and its music video was officially released on October 20, 2006. It received a nomination for the CMT Video Awards for "Breakthrough Video of the Year".[8][9]
Her debut album, Small Town Girl, released on October 31, 2006, topped Billboard's Top Country Albums and landed at number nine on Billboard Top 200 selling over 79,000 copies in its first week, making Pickler the highest-selling first-week sales for a new artist in 2006. The album includes five songs that Pickler co-wrote with songwriters Chris Lindsey, Aimee Mayo, and Karyn Rochelle.[10][11][12]
On January 18, 2007, Pickler co-hosted The View and was presented with a gold record by Rosie O'Donnell, certifying that her album has reached the 500,000 sales mark. She also performed her second single "I Wonder", which is a personal song about her absent relationship with her mother, Cynthia Morton. It was the first performance of the song on national TV.[13][14]
Pickler was nominated for "Top New Female Vocalist" for the 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards.[15]
She was also part of Brad Paisley's "Bonfires & Amplifiers" concert tour from April 2007 through October as one of the opening acts. The tour was booked in at least 37 cities across North America including a couple of stops in Canada.[16][17]
Pickler appeared in country music artist Brad Paisley's music video "Online" in 2007.[18]
On September 2007, Pickler released a version of "Santa Baby" for a Christmas country compilation. A month later, at the ASCAP Awards in Nashville, Pickler received a songwriter award for co-writing her debut single "Red High Heels". She performed her second single, "I Wonder", at the 2007 CMA Awards. During the performance, she was visibly overcome with emotion and struggled to even finish the song before bursting into tears. The performance received a standing ovation. She was also nominated for the Horizon Award. The performance led her to receive 3 CMT awards the following April.
In November 2007, Pickler appeared on a Celebrity Edition of the quiz show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, playing for the charities of her choice (American Red Cross and the AARP's Grandparenting Program).[19] Worth a guaranteed $25,000, she was asked, "Budapest is the capital of what European country?". She replied, "This might be a stupid question… I thought Europe was a country." She voiced that it might be a place where people spoke French, and then was repeatedly confused as to whether France really was a country or not. When told the answer was Hungary, she did not believe the host. She said, "Hungry? That's a country? I've heard of Turkey, but Hungry? I've never heard of it."[20] Thanks to the classmate saving her, she was able to pass the $25,000 mark and went on to win $50,000 before walking away; had she not been saved, she would have left with nothing at all. While on her first USO concert tour in Iraq, Pickler met a few people from Budapest, Hungary, who presented her with a flag of their country.[21][22]
[edit] 2008–2010: Kellie Pickler
While "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind" was climbing the country charts (it eventually reached number sixteen), Pickler returned to the studio to record her second studio album for 19 Recordings/BNA Records. She performed the debut single, "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" at the ACM Awards on May 18, 2008 and received a good response from the audience. She was nominated for "Top New Female Vocalist", but the award went to Taylor Swift.
"Don't You Know You're Beautiful" was released to radio in June 2008 and was a Top 25 hit for Pickler, peaking eventually at number twenty-one. Her second album, Kellie Pickler, was released on September 30, 2008 and debuted at the top of the country chart, as well as number nine on the Billboard 200, selling over 43,000 copies in its first week. It matched the debuting spots of her first album, Small Town Girl.
On November 12, 2008, Pickler performed the second single off her album, "Best Days of Your Life" at the CMA Awards. She was also nominated for "New Artist Of The Year" for the second year in a row, but lost to Lady Antebellum. "Best Days of Your Life" made its radio debut in November 2008, and debuted at number 56. The song climbed very slowly up the chart, but ended up becoming Pickler's first Top 10 hit on the Hot Country Songs chart. After nearly 40 weeks on the chart, the song peaked at number nine in August 2009. A music video was made by Roman White, featuring Taylor Swift, who co-wrote and sang background harmony vocals on the song.
Pickler was nominated for "Female Video Of The Year" at the 2009 CMT Music Awards for "Don't You Know You're Beautiful". She lost once again to Swift. She also presented the award for "USA Weekend Breakthrough Video Of The Year" with Idol judge Randy Jackson.
Pickler accompanied Swift on the first leg of her Fearless Tour 2009. In June, she launched her first ever headline concert tour in promotion of her self-titled album. On October 8, it was announced that Pickler will be part of the second leg of Fearless Tour.[23]
"Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You", a re-recording from Picklers' first album Small Town Girl, was released as the album's third single on August 30, 2009. The song debuted at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and became her fifth Top 20 hit, peaking at number fourteen in February 2010.
On October 26, Pickler won the title of Country Weekly's poll of most beautiful woman in country music for the second year in a row. Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood were the second and third places, respectively.[24]
"Making Me Fall In Love Again" was released as the album's fourth single on April 19, 2010. It debuted at number 53 and peaked at number 30.
[edit] 2011–present: 100 Proof
It was announced that Pickler's third album will be produced by Frank Liddell, known for producing country artist Miranda Lambert's albums.[25] "Tough" was released on June 13, 2011 as the lead-off single to Pickler's third album, 100 Proof, which was released on January 24, 2012.
Personal life[link]
Pickler's father, whom she describes as an alcoholic and drug addict, served a three-year, nine-month prison sentence at Florida State Prison for aggravated assault and battery stemming from a 2003 stabbing incident.[26] He was released on May 6, 2006, a week after her elimination from Idol.
Pickler's mother was repeatedly charged with writing bad checks and was convicted in 1988 for passing a forged prescription for Valium at the Albemarle Wal-Mart, where she worked. The day after Pickler's second birthday, her parents split up. A year later, in July 1989, her mother vanished. When her father would get locked up, Pickler would live with her grandparents, outside Albemarle, which is 45 miles northeast of Charlotte. In 1992, her mother returned to Albemarle, but rarely made contact with her daughter Kellie. But in March 1995, with Bo Pickler in prison for armed robbery, her mother was granted custody. Kellie was in the fourth grade. "She got custody of me for two years," Kellie said in a February 2006 interview with The Observer. "During that time, she was physically and mentally abusive of me." In a 1997 court filing, Kellie's grandparents said her mother had moved to Union County with the girl and treated the child harshly. The court restored custody to the grandparents. Her mother vanished again, and Kellie hasn't heard from her since. In an April 2006 interview with NBC Kellie said "One thing that's so important in life is we learn to forgive others. I ask the Lord every day to forgive me for my sins and for things that I've done wrong. And who am I to not forgive someone for what they've done?" said Kellie. "I have forgiven her. I know that I haven't spoken to her in years and I probably wouldn't know her if I saw her. But she's my mother and she's a person. God tells us to love everyone. And I love her. She's my mother."[27]
On February 26, 2007, she met her personal 'idol' and strongest influence, the country music superstar Dolly Parton. The surprise was arranged by Sony BMG Nashville chairman Joe Galante.[28]
In 2007, Pickler was in a relationship with Nashville Predators player Jordin Tootoo and visited his family in Nunavut.[29][30] Later that year, the two broke up.[31]
Pickler's best friend has been Summer Miller, who Pickler met when they were teen pageant hopefuls.[32] Pickler is close friends with American Idol fourth season winner Carrie Underwood, country pop singer Taylor Swift, the latter of whom co-wrote Pickler's second single "Best Days of Your Life" from her album Kellie Pickler,[33] with her American Idol roommate Katharine McPhee, for whom she was a bridesmaid at McPhee's 2008 wedding and also with songwriter Aimee Mayo.[34]
In June 2008, she joined close friend Carrie Underwood, a long-time vegetarian, in giving up eating meat. Pickler says she first decided to go vegetarian for health reasons, but a TV ad that vegetarian Pamela Anderson did for animal rights group PETA piqued her curiosity. "One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos and I just thought it was horrible. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals and it really bothered me and so I will not eat meat."[35] In May 2009, it was announced that Pickler was nominated and won the title of "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" by PETA.[36]
After two and a half years of dating, Pickler became engaged to songwriter Kyle Jacobs on June 15, 2010, the day of her late grandmother's birthday, after he proposed on a beach at sunset.[37] Pickler and Jacobs eloped on January 1, 2011 in a "small, intimate ceremony on a private island in the Caribbean".[38]
Philanthropy[link]
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Pickler actively supports St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where she helps raise funds and gives kids special visits. She also participates in charitable events to help raise funds for various organizations. She has performed to help raise funds for the "N.C. Children's PROMISE" to benefit the Children's Hospital on Nov. 12, 2006,[39] to help refurbish the Hurricane Katrina damaged NFL Youth Education Towns Boys & Girls Club of New Orleans on December 16, 2006,[39] visited St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on January 12, 2007,[40] and visited Pennington Elementary School on February 1, 2007.[40] “When you’re able to give back to your communities and organizations like St. Jude, it’s a great thing,” Pickler said. “It’s been a great experience, and I encourage anyone and everyone to help.”[40]
Pickler was part of a Country and Western artist studded online auction for charity by Mario Magro: Kiss for a Cause Foundation Celebrity Auction held June 15–25, 2007, in support of orphaned and abandoned children. The event auctioned off celebrity lip prints and signatures pressed on the inside of Mario Magro Crystal Le Coop handbags at the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.[39]
In 2007 she appeared on a charity episode of "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" On the episode, she missed a question about the location of Budapest, and in her conversation with Jeff Foxworthy revealed that she thought Europe was a country and was not sure about the status of France.
She has participated in three USO tours. The first, in late 2007 and early 2008, took her to Iraq;[21][39] the second, in December 2008, included stops in Germany, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and England.[41] In January 2010, Pickler made stops in Iraq and Kuwait on a 10-day tour with Randy Houser and Jamey Johnson. The three country stars "played remote bases on the front lines of the war zone, and the sound of gun fire became their frequent companion at night."[42]
In early August 2009, Pickler participated in ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's rebuilding of James Terpenning's family home in Beavercreek, Ohio. Pickler performed a free concert at the home, and helped during reconstruction.[43]
Discography[link]
Main article: Kellie Pickler discography
- Albums
- 2006: Small Town Girl
- 2008: Kellie Pickler
- 2012: 100 Proof
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Presenter | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Teen Choice Awards | Female Country Artist | Nominated |
| 2010 | American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers | Songwriter award for "Best Days of Your Life" (most performed country songs of the year) |
Won |
| CMT Music Awards | Female Video of the Year: "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" |
Nominated | |
| Collaborative Video of the Year: "Best Days of Your Life" (with Taylor Swift) |
Nominated | ||
| American Country Awards | Female Artist Single of the Year: "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" |
Nominated | |
| Female Music Video: "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" |
Nominated | ||
| 2009 | CMT Music Awards | Female Video of The Year: "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" |
Nominated |
| 2008 | CMT Music Awards | Breakthrough Video of The Year: "I Wonder" |
Won |
| Tearjerker Video of The Year: "I Wonder" |
Won | ||
| Performance of The Year: "I Wonder @ CMA Awards" |
Won | ||
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Top New Female Vocalist of The Year | Nominated | |
| Country Music Association Awards | New Artist of the Year | Nominated | |
| American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers | Songwriter award for "I Wonder" (most performed country songs of the year) |
Won | |
| 2007 | CMT Music Awards | Breakthrough Video of The Year: "Red High Heels" |
Nominated |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Top New Female Vocalist Of The Year | Nominated | |
| Country Music Association Awards | Horizon Award | Nominated | |
| American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers | Songwriter award for "Red High Heels" (most performed country songs of the year) |
Won |
Tours[link]
- Still Feels Good Tour (2007) with Rascal Flatts
- Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour (2007–2008) with Brad Paisley
- Love on the Inside Tour (2008) with Sugarland
- Fearless Tour (2009–2010) with Taylor Swift
- American Living Unstoppable Tour (2010) with Rascal Flatts
- Nothing Like This Tour (2010) with Rascal Flatts
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| Carrie Underwood | |
|---|---|
 Carrie Underwood at the 2010 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Carrie Marie Underwood |
| Born | (1983-03-10) March 10, 1983 (age 29) Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| Origin | Checotah, Oklahoma, United States |
| Genres | Country, country pop |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | 19, Arista Nashville, Arista |
| Associated acts | Brad Paisley, Randy Travis, Tony Bennett |
| Website | www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com |
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American country singer, songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005. Underwood has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a winner of several Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards, a Golden Globe Award nominee, a three-time Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Female Vocalist winner, and a two-time ACM Entertainer of the Year. She is the first-ever female artist to win back-to-back Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards for Entertainer of the Year (2009/10). Underwood was inducted into and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2008. She was also inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2009.[1] Billboard named Underwood Country Music's reigning Queen in 2012.[2]
Her debut album, Some Hearts, was certified seven times platinum and, since February 2006, is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history.[3] It is also the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history, since February 2008,[4] and, since March 2011, the best-selling country album of the last 10 years.[5] Some Hearts yielded three number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs. Her second album, Carnival Ride, was released on October 23, 2007. It has sold over 3 million copies as of January 2010,[6] being certified 3 times Platinum,[7] and produced four consecutive number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs. Underwood released her third album, Play On, on November 3, 2009. It has been certified 2 times Platinum by the RIAA[7] and has produced three consecutive number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs. As of March 2012, Underwood has sold over 22 million singles[8] and more than 14 million albums worldwide.[9] As of May 16, 2011, Underwood became the "American Idol" US Top Earner, selling so far 12.4 million album copies and 19 million digital tracks,[10] along with amassing $66 million in tour revenues, since winning Season 4.[11] Underwood's fourth album, Blown Away, was released on May 1, 2012.
With eleven number one hits on Billboard Hot Country Songs, Underwood is listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the Female Country Artist with Most number one Hits on such chart from 1991 to present, tied with Reba McEntire.[12] Underwood is also the only solo Country Artist to have a number one hit on Billboard Hot 100 Songs in the 2000 decade, as "Inside Your Heaven" reached the top of the chart in July 2005. Her album Some Hearts was named the Best Country Album of the 2000 Decade by Billboard,[13] and she's the only Female Artist to appear on the Top 10 of Billboard's Best Country Artists of the 2000 Decade list, ranked at number ten.[14] She was also ranked number 50 on the Artists of the Decade list by Billboard.[15] In June 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Underwood as the number eleven Queen of Pop, based on a lot of criteria from 2009 until 2011.[16] In July 2011, Forbes reported that Underwood earned over $20 million between May 2010 and May 2011.[17]
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Early life[link]
Underwood was born to Stephen and Carole Underwood on March 10, 1983, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was raised on her parents' farm in the rural town of Checotah, Oklahoma.[18] Her father worked in a sawmill, while her mother taught elementary school.[19] She has two older sisters, Shanna and Stephanie.[20] During her childhood, Underwood performed at Robbins Memorial Talent Show, and sang at her local church, First Free Will Baptist Church.[21] She later sang for local events in Checotah, including Old Settler's Day and the Lion's Club.[22]
A local admirer arranged for her to go to Nashville when she was 14 to audition for Capitol Records.[21] In 1996, Capitol Records was preparing a contract for Underwood but cancelled it when company management changed. Underwood said of the event, "I honestly think it's a lot better that nothing came out of it now, because I wouldn't have been ready then. Everything has a way of working out."[23] While at Checotah High School, she was an Honor Society member, a cheerleader, and played basketball and softball.[24] Underwood graduated from Checotah High School in 2001 as salutatorian.[22] She chose not to pursue singing after graduation. She said, "After high school, I pretty much gave up on the dream of singing. I had reached a point in my life where I had to be practical and prepare for my future in the 'real world'".[24] She attended Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, graduating magna cum laude in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in mass communication and an emphasis in journalism.[25] She spent part of one of her summers as a page for Oklahoma State Representative Bobby Frame.[26] She also waited tables at a pizzeria, worked at a zoo, and at a veterinary clinic.[24] Underwood is an alumna of the Alpha Iota chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.[27] For two years during the summer, she performed in Northeastern State University's Downtown Country show in Tahlequah. She also competed in numerous beauty pageants at the university and was selected as Miss NSU runner-up in 2004.[28]
[edit] American Idol
Main article: American Idol (season 4)
In the summer of 2004, Underwood auditioned for American Idol in St. Louis, Missouri. After she sang "Could've Been" by Tiffany on the top 12 girls night, judge Simon Cowell commented that she would be one of the favorites to win the competition. During the top 11 finalists' performance on the March 22, 2005, Idol episode, Underwood sang a rendition of the number one 1980s rock hit "Alone", made famous by Heart, and Cowell predicted that Underwood would not only win the competition, but she would also outsell all previous Idol winners.[29] One of the show's producers later said she dominated the voting, winning each week handily.[30] She gained a fan base known as "Carrie's Care Bears" during the course of the show. During the final, she sang with Rascal Flatts their song "Bless the Broken Road". On May 5, 2005, Underwood became the season four winner. Her winnings included a recording contract worth at least a million dollars, use of a private jet for a year, and a Ford Mustang convertible.[31]
Performances and results[link]
| Week | Theme | Song | Original artist | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auditions | Contestant's choice | "I Can't Make You Love Me" | Bonnie Raitt | Advanced |
| Hollywood | Contestant's choice | "Young Hearts Run Free" | Candi Staton | Advanced |
| Top 75 | Contestant's choice | "Independence Day" | Martina McBride | Advanced |
| Semi-finals 1 | Contestant's Choice | "Could've Been" | Tiffany | Safe |
| Semi-finals 2 | Contestant's choice | "Piece of My Heart" | Erma Franklin | Safe |
| Semi-finals 3 | Contestant's choice | "Because You Love Me" | Jo Dee Messina | Safe |
| Top 12 | Song of the 1960s | "When Will I Be Loved" | The Everly Brothers | Safe |
| Top 11 | Billboard number ones | "Alone" | i-TEN | Safe |
| Top 10 | 1990s | "Independence Day" | Martina McBride | Safe |
| Top 9 | Classic Broadway | "Hello, Young Lovers" | The King and I cast | Safe |
| Top 8 | Year they were born | "Love Is a Battlefield" | Pat Benatar | Safe |
| Top 7 | 1970s dance music | "MacArthur Park" | Richard Harris | Safe |
| Top 6 | 21st Century | "When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues" | Martina McBride | Safe |
| Top 5 | Lieber & Stoller Current Billboard chart |
"Trouble" "Bless the Broken Road" |
Elvis Presley Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
Safe |
| Top 4 | Country Gamble & Huff |
"Sin Wagon" "If You Don't Know Me by Now" |
Dixie Chicks Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes |
Safe |
| Top 3 | Clive Davis' choice Contestant's choice Judge's choice (Randy Jackson) |
"Crying" "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" |
Roy Orbison Air Supply Shania Twain |
Safe |
| Final 2 | Idol single Contestant's choice Producer's choice |
"Inside Your Heaven" "Independence Day" "Angels Brought Me Here" |
Carrie Underwood/Bo Bice Martina McBride Guy Sebastian |
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Career[link]
[edit] 2005–07: Some Hearts
Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts, was released in November 2005, entering the Billboard charts with 315,000 copies sold, debuting at number one on the Hot Country Albums and at number two on the Hot 200 Albums. The large first week sales of Some Hearts made it the biggest debut of any country artist since the advent of the SoundScan system in 1991. The album was the best-selling album in the United States in 2006 and the best-selling country album in the United States of 2006 and 2007. Some Hearts has since been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA, and is the fastest-selling debut country album in the history of the SoundScan era,[32] the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history, as of February 2008,[4] and the best-selling album by an American Idol alumni in the U.S..[33] "Inside Your Heaven", Underwood's first single, was released in June, debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Singles Chart. It was the longest running single of 2005 in Canada. "Inside Your Heaven" is the only single by a solo country artist in the 2000 decade to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It sold nearly one million copies and was certified gold by the RIAA and two times platinum by the CRIA. The album's second single,[34] "Jesus, Take the Wheel" was released to radio in October and later peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, topping it for six consecutive weeks, and at twenty on the Hot 100. The song sold over two million copies and was certified 2-time Platinum by the RIAA.[6] Underwood's third single, "Some Hearts", was also released in October, but just to the pop radios. "Don't Forget to Remember Me", her fourth single, also proved successful, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Later that autumn, Underwood's third country single,[34] "Before He Cheats", hit number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs, staying there for 5 consecutive weeks. The song peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, achieving the slowest climb ever to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record that was previously held by Creed from July 2000. It sold over three million copies, being certified 3-time Platinum, and is the fourth best-selling country digital song of all time.[35] On April 11, 2007, Underwood continued her streak of top Country singles with the release of "Wasted", which peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs Chart, sold nearly one million copies and was certified Gold by the RIAA.[36] On August 2008, "Jesus, Take the Wheel" was reported to have been certified Platinum, making Underwood the first country artist ever to have two songs hit Platinum Mastertone status together with "Before He Cheats", which has been certified earlier in 2007.[37] Underwood started her first headlined tour, Carrie Underwood: Live 2006, with dates across North America.
At the 2005 Billboard Music Awards, her hit song "Inside Your Heaven" won the coveted Top-Selling Hot 100 Song of the Year award and also Top-Selling Country Single of the Year award, and she won Country Single Sales Artist of the Year. At the 2006 Academy of Country Music Awards, she won Top New Female Vocalist and Single of the Year, for "Jesus, Take the Wheel". At the 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards she won both the Horizon Award (now Best New Artist) and Female Vocalist of the Year. At the 2006 CMT Awards, Underwood won both the Breakthrough Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year for "Jesus, Take The Wheel". She later won the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at the American Music Awards, and was also nominated for Favorite Female Country Artist. She won 5 awards at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, including the coveted Album of the Year, Top 200 Female Artist of the Year, Female Country Artist, New Country Artist, and Country Album of the Year. Also that year, Underwood won a Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year, for "Jesus, Take The Wheel". At the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2007, Underwood won Album of the Year, Video of the Year, and Female Vocalist of the Year. She was nominated for "World's Best Selling New Artist" at the 2006 World Music Awards. At the 2007 CMT Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 16, Underwood's "Before He Cheats" won three awards, including Video of the Year, Female Video of the Year, and Video Director of the Year. Underwood won two awards at the 2007 CMA Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year, for the second consecutive time, and Single Record of the Year, for "Before He Cheats". In 2007, at the 49th Grammy Awards, Some Hearts received four Grammy nominations and Underwood won her first two Grammy Awards: Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Jesus, Take the Wheel. She sang the Eagles song "Life in the Fast Lane" alongside Grammy nominees Rascal Flatts. She also sang the Eagles' "Desperado" to honour Don Henley of The Eagles. She also paid tribute to Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys by performing "New San Antonio Rose". At the 50th Grammy Awards, in 2008, Underwood was nominated for two more Grammys: Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for "Before He Cheats" and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, for "Oh, Love" a duet with Brad Paisley. She won one Grammy Award that night, for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, and performed the song at the ceremony.
In December 2005, Underwood was named Oklahoman of the Year by Oklahoma Today.[38] In December 2006, Underwood joined Tony Bennett, Michael Bublé and Josh Groban to sing "For Once In My Life" on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[39] Also that month, she paid tribute to Dolly Parton, by singing "Islands in the Stream" with Kenny Rogers (originally by Parton and Rogers) at the Kennedy Center Honors, which honored Parton that year. Underwood performed with the USO Christmas Tour in Iraq during the 2006 Holiday season.[40] Underwood also performed at the 2007 Idol Gives Back concert singing "I'll Stand By You", a cover of The Pretenders hit. Her version of the song debuted at number six on Billboard's Hot 100 Songs. Also in 2007, Victoria's Secret named Underwood the Sexiest Female Musician.[41]
[edit] 2007–09: Carnival Ride
Underwood's second album, Carnival Ride,[42] was released in October 2007.[43] On Carnival Ride, Underwood was more involved in the songwriting process; she set up a writers' retreat at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium to collaborate with such Music Row tunesmiths as Hillary Lindsey, Craig Wiseman, Rivers Rutherford, and Gordie Sampson.[44] Carnival Ride moved over 527,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number one on both the Billboard 200 and Hot Country Albums, as well as number one on the Canadian Albums Chart. Carnival Ride was certified double platinum in just two months after its release, in December.[45] The album is certified 3-time Platinum by the RIAA, for sales of over three million. "So Small", the first single from the album, was released in July 2007 and reached number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs, topping it for three consecutive weeks.[46] "All-American Girl", the second single, also reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs. The next single, "Last Name", reached number one on the Hot Country Song chart as well. This made Underwood the first female artist to have two consecutive albums each release three number-ones on this chart since Shania Twain in 1998. "Just a Dream", the album's next single, was released on July 2008 and later peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, staying there for 2 consecutive weeks. With that, Underwood became the third female artist in country music history to have released four consecutive Number Ones from the same album with Rosanne Cash's King's Record Shop and Shania Twain's The Woman in Me being the other two that have done so. The album's fifth single, "I Told You So", a duet with the original singer of the song, Randy Travis, was released in February 2009. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Country charts and number nine on the Hot 100. Carnival Ride has produced four Platinum-selling singles, "So Small", "All American Girl", "Last Name" and "Just a Dream", and a Gold-selling single, "I Told You So", which sold nearly one million copies.[6] In January 2008, Underwood embarked on a joint tour with Keith Urban named the Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride Tour, with dates fixed nationwide that continued through April.[47] She then started her headlined tour, the Carnival Ride Tour, in February 2008, with dates across all North America, and ended it on December 14, 2008, playing to 1.2 million fans throughout the tour and being named the top-selling country female touring artist of 2008.[48]
By the end of 2007, Underwood won 5 awards at the Billboard Music Awards, including the coveted Billboard 200 Artist of the Year and also Country Artist of the Year.[49] Also in late 2007, she won three American Music Awards: Artist of the Year, Favorite Female Country Artist and Favorite Country Album, for her debut album, Some Hearts. At the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards, she won Female Vocalist of the Year, for the 2nd consecutive time. She received two nominations for the 2008 Country Music Association Awards. Underwood and Brad Paisley co-hosted the awards show[50] and she walked away with the Female Vocalist of the Year award for the third consecutive time, but lost the Album of the Year award to George Strait. At the 2008 American Music Awards, Carnival Ride won the Favorite Country Album award, thus making that her 2nd consecutive win in such category. In 2008, Underwood also won her first international award, which was "Female Vocalist of the Year" at the European Country Music Association Awards.[51] For the 44th Academy of Country Music Awards, in 2009, Underwood was nominated for four major awards. Underwood won for Female Vocalist of the Year and Entertainer of The Year, thus making her the first woman to win the award in ten years and the 7th female to take it in the award show's four decade run. Underwood was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2009 CMT Awards for "Just A Dream". In 2009, at the 51st Grammy Awards, she won, for the third year in a row, the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for "Last Name", and performed the song at the ceremony. At the 52nd Grammy Awards, in 2010, Underwood won her fifth Grammy Award: She won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "I Told You So" with Randy Travis and was also nominated again for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for "Just A Dream". At the ceremony, she performed with Celine Dion, Usher, Smokey Robinson and Jennifer Hudson during the 3-D Michael Jackson tribute.[52] Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich stated that Michael Jackson greatly admired Underwood, which is why she was hand-picked to perform during his tribute.[53]
On May 13, 2008, Underwood was invited by Randy Travis to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry, later that month she was officially inducted by Garth Brooks into the Grand Ole Opry.[54] A few months earlier, she sang Julie Andrews' classic, the title song from The Sound of Music, at the 2007 Movies Rock: A Celebration Of Music In Film.[55] On October 22, 2008, Underwood unveiled her wax figure at Madame Tussauds New York. In 2009, Forbes reported that Underwood was the top earning American Idol alumni from June 2008 – May 17, 2009. She earned more than twice as much as the second place finisher, with estimated earnings of $14 million during this time period.[56] She appeared on the holiday CD Hear Something Country Christmas 2007 with a rendition of "Do You Hear What I Hear?". The song reached number two on the AC Chart, and remained there for 3 consecutive weeks.[57] She recorded the song "Ever Ever After" for the soundtrack of the 2007 Walt Disney film Enchanted. Underwood co-wrote a song for Idol alum Kristy Lee Cook's major-label debut album Why Wait. At the 2008 Idol Gives Back, she sang George Michael's classic "Praying For Time" and later recorded it. In November 2008, Underwood recorded a virtual and posthumous duet with Elvis Presley, on his classic "I'll Be Home For Christmas", for his 2008 album Christmas Duets. Elvis' ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, herself asked Underwood to do the duet: "Priscilla wanted me to do 'I'll Be Home For Christmas'", she says. "I couldn't say 'no'."[58] In March 2009, she tracked a cover of Mötley Crüe's ballad "Home Sweet Home" for the American Idol season 8 farewell theme.[59] Her version debuted at number 21 on the Hot 100 Songs.
[edit] 2009–12: Play On
Underwood released her third studio album, Play On, in November 2009. The album debuted atop both the Billboard 200 and Hot Country Albums, selling nearly 318,000 copies, giving Underwood the second-highest female artist first week sales for 2009. Underwood wrote a song with pop/R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo for the album, the song however did not make the album.[60] The first single from the album, "Cowboy Casanova", co-written by Underwood, Brett James and hip hop producer Mike Elizondo, was released in September, peaked at number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs and at eleven on the Hot 100 Songs, sold 1.6 million and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Second single, "Temporary Home"[61] hit number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and the RIAA certified it Gold.[62] "Undo It", Underwood's third single from "Play On", was released to radio in May. It was later certified Platinum by the RIAA and hit number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, giving Underwood her tenth number one single on the Hot Country Songs. The 4th single from Play On, "Mama's Song", was released to country radio in September and peaked at two on the Hot Country Songs. The album is certified Double Platinum by the RIAA.[7]
Underwood's Play On Tour started its first leg on March 11, 2010 in Reading, Pennsylvania.[63] The second leg of the tour started on September 25, 2010 in Portland, Oregon, and ended January 1, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan.[64] Underwood sold out the prestigious Hollywood Bowl on October 2, 2010.[65] In December 2010, Pollstar.com ranked the Play On Tour one of the Top 50 tours of 2010, at number 18 on the North American raking, and number 31 worldwide. Billboard also ranked Underwood's tour at number 24 for all worldwide tours of 2010. On January 4, 2011, official statistics revealed that Underwood played to over 1 million fans throughout the tour,[66]
At the 2009 CMA Awards she received two nominations and co-hosted the ceremony with Brad Paisley.[67] Underwood was nominated for 6 Academy of Country Music Awards. At the show, Underwood was named Entertainer of the Year, making her the only country female artist in history to win this award twice. Host Reba McEntire presented Underwood with the "ACM Triple Crown Award" signifying her winning Top New Artist, Top Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year during her career. She was only the second Female to win the coveted "Triple Crown Award", the first being Barbara Mandrell. At the CMT Music Awards Underwood walked away with Video of the Year for "Cowboy Casanova". She also won CMT Performance of the Year for "Temporary Home" from CMT: Invitation Only presents Carrie Underwood.[68] Underwood won two international awards at the 8th French Country Music Awards, which were Best Female Vocalist and Video of the Year, for "Cowboy Casanova". At the 2010 American Music Awards, she won "Favorite Country Album", for "Play On", making her the only artist in the American Music Award history to have all albums awarded in such a category.[69] She co-hosted the 2010 CMA Awards with Brad Paisley for the third year in a row. Underwood was the 2010 American Country Awards' top winner with six wins, Artist of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for (Play On), Female Artist Single of the Year for ("Cowboy Casanova"), Female Artist Video of the Year for ("Cowboy Casanova") and Touring Artist of the Year.[70] At the 2011 Grammy Awards, Underwood was nominated for 'Best Female Country Vocal Performance' for "Temporary Home."[71] Underwood was honored by the CMT Artists of the Year special as one of the 5 top Artists of the year in 2010 in country music.[72] The event aired on CMT on December 3, 2010. At the 2011 Academy of Country Music Awards, Underwood sang with Steven Tyler both her song "Undo It" and Aerosmith's "Walk This Way". In May 2011, Underwood was one of the seven women to be honored by the Academy of Country Music at the Girls' Night Out: Superstar Women of Country special. She was recognized for being the first and only female artist in the Academy's history to ever win Entertainer of the Year twice.[73] At the ceremony, Vince Gill introduced Underwood and presented her with the special award. He sang one of her hits, "Jesus, Take The Wheel", and joined Underwood on a rendition performance of "How Great Thou Art". The video of the performance turned into a viral sensation, reaching 3 million views on YouTube within two days.[74] On December 5, 2011, Underwood won three awards at the 2011 American Country Awards, including Female Artist of the Year for the second consecutive time.[75]
In late 2009, Underwood had her very own CMT Invitation Only[76] and also hosted a Christmas special, Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special, a two-hour variety show on Fox that featured Dolly Parton, with whom she sang a rendition duet of "I Will Always Love You", seventh-season American Idol champion David Cook, Kristin Chenoweth, Brad Paisley and others.[77] In May 2010, Underwood was selected on People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People List for 2010. This was the 4th year in a row that she was selected for the list. Also in May, Victoria's Secret named her legs the Sexiest Legs in Hollywood.[78] Underwood appeared on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Her character, Tiffany, is a pharmaceutical sales representative who becomes the love interest for another main character on the show.[79] A few months earlier, she performed a voice-over as 'Carrie Underworm', a parodied "worm" character, in an episode of the PBS children's television series, Sesame Street,[80] Underwood co-wrote and recorded a song entitled "There's a Place for Us," the lead single from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.[81] Underwood and songwriters, David Hodges and Hillary Lindsey, received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[82] In March 2011, Underwood sang John Lennon's "Instant Karma!" at the NBC's special All Together Now – A Celebration of Service, which honored former President George H. W. Bush.[83] She made her big screen debut in Soul Surfer, in April 2011. At the season ten finale of American Idol Underwood selected a song for contestant Lauren Alaina to sing.[84]
Underwood is featured on "Remind Me", a duet with Brad Paisley that reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, giving Underwood her eleventh number one single on such chart and fourteenth overall. She has also a duet with Tony Bennett on his 2011 album Duets II[85] and another duet with Randy Travis on his 2011 Anniversary Celebration album. Underwood was one of the headliners of the iHeartRadio Music Festival. The event took place on September 23 and 24, 2011.[86] On September 19, Underwood performed "You Really Got a Hold on Me" in order to honor Smokey Robinson, as he was presented with the Ella Award at the Society of Singers annual dinner. Robinson returned the favor to Underwood by singing "My Girl" to her. At the same event, they sang together with Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole and other artists a medley of multiple songs.[87]
On February 4, 2012, Underwood joined Steven Tyler to record CMT's Crossroads at the Pepsi Coliseum during the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam of Super Bowl XLVI.[88] It was the highest-rated episode in seven years.[89] On February 12, 2012, Underwood and Tony Bennett performed their duet "It Had to Be You" at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards show.[90]
[edit] 2012: Blown Away
Blown Away,[91] Underwood's fourth album, was released on May 1, 2012.[92] Underwood has said that this album features songs with a "darker storyline."[93] Blown Away debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, the Country Albums Chart and the Digital Albums chart in the United States, selling more than 267,000 in its first week.[94] The first single, "Good Girl", was released to the iTunes store on February 23, 2012. It was officially released to Country radio on February 27, 2012.[95][96] The music video for "Good Girl" premiered on Entertainment Tonight and on VEVO on March 12, 2012.[97] The song has already been certified Gold by the RIAA, for sales of half a million.[6]
On May 1, Underwood announced the North American arena tour leg of her Blown Away Tour. The tour will include an international run of shows this summer, including her a concert at Royal Albert Hall in London on June 21,[98] which sold-out in 90 minutes.[99]
Personal interests[link]
Underwood is an animal lover and a vegan.[100] She stopped eating meat at the age of thirteen because she could not stand the thought of eating one of her own animals. She was voted "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" by PETA[101] in 2007 for the second time, the first being in 2005 alongside Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who is also a vegan.[101] In a 2007 interview with PETA, Underwood stated, "Ever since I was little I loved animals [...] If you told me I could never sing again, I'd say that was horrible, but it's not my life. If you told me I could never be around animals again, I would just die."[102] Underwood is a supporter of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and has done several public service announcements for the organization.[103] Underwood has also done a "Protect Your Pets" public service announcement for Do Something.[104]
To benefit cancer research, in August 2008 Underwood joined Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and other female artists to record the song "Just Stand Up!". The proceeds benefited Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C). As a result of their fund raising efforts, the SU2C scientific advisory committee, overseen by the American Association for Cancer Research was able to award $73.6 million towards novel, groundbreaking research.[105] The song peaked at number eleven on Billboard's Hot 100 Songs. In August 2009, she formed the Checotah Animal Town and School (C.A.T.S.) Foundation to benefit her hometown of Checotah, Oklahoma. On August 28, 2009, Underwood visited Checotah High School with ABC news anchor Robin Roberts, where she gave a presentation on stage, sang with a young girl in front of students and school faculty, and donated over $117,000 worth of musical instruments to three music programs at three of Checotah's schools. Underwood has participated in the annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball tournament for charity for many years. The event takes place in Nashville, Tennessee, and benefits research for life-threatening diseases.[106] During the 2011 holiday season, her C.A.T.S. foudation donated $350,000 to schools in the singer's hometown of Checotah, Oklahoma.[107] On January 10, 2012, it was reported, but had previously been blogged by Underwood herself on her official fan-site, that the singer rescued an abandoned dog along highway. According to Underwood, she spotted two dogs along the road while traveling with her own dogs, Ace and Penny, from her parents' home in her native Oklahoma. "My guess is that the dogs were thrown out of their car by their owners on the highway", said the singer. One of the dogs was already dead, but she put the other – bloody and limping – into her SUV. She named the puppy Stella, took her to the vet and got her groomed. Within a matter of days, she'd found a nearby home for the dog. "I cried when she walked out the door," she wrote.[108]
Underwood has also stated she has a great interest in sports. In 2005, she performed the "Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons,[109] and in 2006 at the NBA All-Star Game.[110] She also performed the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the NFC Championship Game between the Seattle Seahawks and Carolina Panthers in 2006,[111] as well as at the 2006 edition of NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600,[112] the MLB All Star Game in Pittsburgh, P.A., and at Game 3 of the 2007 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies.[113] On February 7, 2010, Underwood performed the National Anthem for Super Bowl XLIV.[114]
Personal life[link]
Underwood is a practicing Christian.[115] She follows a vegan diet.[100] She performed at halftime of the 2006 Thanksgiving Day football game at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas, and was friends with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.[116] She attended his birthday party in April 2007, and on May 15, 2007, he escorted her to the Academy of Country Music Awards. They were rumored to be dating on and off throughout 2007. Although she denied the rumor when asked, Romo confirmed it by saying "[...] I'm dating Carrie Underwood" on his website. He also told an Illinois newspaper that they were dating.[117] In August 2007, Underwood began dating Chace Crawford of the American television series Gossip Girl. On October 4, 2007, People magazine reported that the two were seen holding hands in New York City,[118] though according to further reports, they ended their relationship in the spring of 2008.[119]
She became engaged in December 2009 to then Ottawa Senators (now Nashville Predators) hockey player Mike Fisher, whom she began dating after they met at one of her concerts in 2008.[120] Underwood and Fisher appeared together publicly for the first time in January 2010, at the Bell Sens Soiree, an annual fundraiser in Gatineau for the Ottawa Senators' official charity.[121] After appearing together at the CMT Awards in June 2010, Underwood told reporters that Fisher was planning a surprise honeymoon for the two of them after their summer wedding.[122]
On July 10, 2010, Underwood and Fisher wed at The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia, with more than 250 people in attendance. The couple gave People the following statement, which they signed "Mike & Carrie Fisher": "We could not feel more blessed to have found each other and to have shared this day with our friends and family that mean so much to us!" According to People, Monique Lhuillier created a dress of Chantilly lace for Underwood and also designed the bridesmaids' dresses. The ceremony featured classical music and readings of the couple's favorite Bible verses.[123][124] National Hockey League players, as well as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, American Idol contestants, and judges Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson were in attendance.[125][126] She surprised her husband by having one of their favorite artists, Brandon Heath, sing his song "Love Never Fails" for their first dance.[127]
On February 11, 2011, an Ottawa radio station, 105.3 CISS-FM, banned the playing of Underwood's music because her husband, Mike Fisher, was traded to the Nashville Predators the day before. Due to Underwood's fans' threats on Facebook to never tune into the radio station, the station later modified their statement. They apologized for their actions, saying that their statements were meant to be taken as a joke, as they do not play Underwood's country songs anyway and it was their tongue-in-cheek way of wishing Fisher the best of luck in Nashville.[128][129] Fisher later criticized the station saying "obviously Carrie had nothing to do with the move or the trade or anything so to imply something like that was just wrong", and noting that both he and Underwood were disappointed in the negativity that was created by the radio station.[130][131] Underwood was selected by The Hockey News on its annual list of the 100 People of Power and Influence in Ice Hockey. For the 2012 list, Underwood ranked at number 85.[132]
Underwood was ranked #60 on Maxim's annual Hot 100 list in 2009.[citation needed]
Discography[link]
Main article: Carrie Underwood discography
- 2005: Some Hearts
- 2007: Carnival Ride
- 2009: Play On
- 2012: Blown Away
Filmography[link]
| Year | Appearance | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | American Idol | Contestant | Winner |
| 2007 | Saturday Night Live | Musical guest | |
| 2009 | Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special | Herself | |
| 2010 | How I Met Your Mother | Tiffany | Episode: "Hooked" |
| Sesame Street | "Carrie Underworm" | ||
| The Buried Life | Herself | ||
| Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Herself | ||
| 2011 | Soul Surfer | Sarah Hill | Feature film debut |
| Blue Bloods | Herself | ||
| 2012 | CMT Crossroads (with Steven Tyler)[88] | Herself | From the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam |
| Oprah's Next Chapter | Herself |
Tours[link]
- 2005: American Idols LIVE! Tour 2005
- 2006: Carrie Underwood: Live 2006
- 2008: Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride Tour (w/ Keith Urban)
- 2008: Carnival Ride Tour
- 2010: Play On Tour
- 2012: Blown Away Tour
Awards[link]
See also[link]
- List of artists who reached number one in the United States
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart
- List of best-selling music artists in the United States
- List of best-charting music artists in the U.S.
References[link]
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 Chris Daughtry in Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Christopher Adam Daughtry[1] |
| Born | (1979-12-26) December 26, 1979 (age 32) Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina |
| Origin | Lasker, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative metal, alternative rock, hard rock, pop rock, post-grunge |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | RCA |
| Associated acts | Daughtry, Absent Element, Cadence |
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| Gibson ES-135, Gibson ES-325 | |
Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry (born December 26, 1979) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Daughtry and as the fourth-place contestant on the fifth season of American Idol, the competition that he was eliminated from on May 10, 2006. After his elimination from Idol, he was given a record deal by RCA Records and formed a band called Daughtry. Their self-titled debut album became the fastest selling debut rock album in history,[2] selling more than one million copies after just five weeks of release. The album was recorded before the band was officially formed, making Chris Daughtry the only official member present on the album. This led some to believe mistakenly that the band Daughtry is Chris Daughtry's solo project.
In its ninth week of release, Daughtry reached number one on the Billboard charts. Chris Daughtry is now the third most successful American Idol contestant in terms of record sales, behind only Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, who both won their respective seasons. At the 50th Grammy Awards, the band was nominated for Best Rock Song for the single "It's Not Over".
Since the band's first album, Chris Daughtry has collaborated with several artists, including Slash, Sevendust, Theory of a Deadman, and Carlos Santana. He is known for his powerful vocal belting technique and wide vocal range.
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Early life[link]
Chris Daughtry was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and raised in Lasker until he was 14. His parents, Pete and Sandra Daughtry, reside in Palmyra, Virginia, where Daughtry grew up before he relocated to McLeansville, North Carolina, outside of Greensboro. His brother, Kenneth, lives in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.[3]
At age 16, Daughtry started taking singing seriously as a musician. He took guitar lessons from blues rock guitarist Matt Jagger at Stacy's Music store in Charlottesville and sought advice from Andy Waldeck (frontman for Earth to Andy) who is credited first on his debut album. He performed with rock bands during his time in high school at local venues, opening for his future band mate Brian Craddock's band My Dog Lucy and Matt Jagger. During high school, he appeared in two stage productions: The Wiz and Peter Pan.
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Cadence[link]
Daughtry's high school band went by the name of Cadence. He sang lead vocals and played rhythm guitar. They produced one album, All Eyes on You (1999), a rare piece that can sometimes be found on eBay.[4] Daughtry later sang lead vocals and played rhythm guitar for rock bands in Burlington such as Absent Element.
Absent Element[link]
The band Absent Element consisted of Daughtry on lead vocals and guitar, Mark Perry on lead guitar, Scott Crawford on drums and Ryan Andrews on bass. Absent Element released Uprooted in 2005. This CD contains the songs "Conviction" and "Breakdown", which Daughtry would later combine and re-record as the song "Breakdown" for the Daughtry CD.
In 2005, Chris Daughtry auditioned for the CBS singing contest Rock Star: INXS. He did not make the cut for the actual filming of the show.[5] Former Daughtry drummer Joey Barnes was at the same audition and made the cut only to drop out of the running due to disagreements regarding the contract.
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Daughtry auditioned for American Idol in Denver, Colorado, with The Box Tops' "The Letter"; he was portrayed as a young rocker with Southern and hard rock influences. He passed the audition by a split decision: approved by Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, disapproved by Simon Cowell. Simon felt that Daughtry at that time was too robotic. After being given a Golden Ticket to Hollywood, he performed "The First Cut Is the Deepest", and sang "Emotion" during his trio performance with Ace Young and Bobby Bullard. The song for Daughtry's a cappella performance remained unknown until American Idol Rewind aired Season 5 Hollywood week, when it was shown that he sang Elton John's 'Your Song'.
Daughtry eventually made it to the Top 24. On March 1, 2006, Daughtry's "raw" performance of Fuel's "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" received critical acclaim by all three judges. On March 3, 2006, Jackson stated in an interview that Daughtry had been offered the opportunity to become Fuel's new lead singer, as the band was at the time without a lead singer. At a welcome home party, Daughtry said he had declined the offer,[6] but, he said, "he'd still like to work with them somewhere down the road."[7] Daughtry's March 21 performance caused controversy when the apparently original rendition of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" garnered much praise from the judges. However, viewers noted that the rendition was very similar to a version by Live; however, there was no mention of that in Daughtry's pre-performance interview. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Daughtry defended himself, saying "It wasn't my doing. You say a lot of things in the [pretaped] interview, and when editing gets involved, things get cut out for time constraints. I did mention in my interview that I'm doing a different version from a band I totally respect. The lead singer of Live, Ed Kowalczyk, called me to say, 'Man, don't listen to that.'...It was really cool to get that kind of respect."[8] On August 2, 2008 at the Tom's River Fest in Tom's River NJ, Daughtry, Kowalczyk, and Live performed Live's rendition of "I Walk the Line" together.[9]
Chris Daughtry was in the final four on May 10, 2006, and found himself in the bottom two with Katharine McPhee. When asked by Seacrest who should be leaving, Cowell expressed that he believed that McPhee should be eliminated. Ryan Seacrest then announced that Daughtry was eliminated. Seacrest asked him if he was surprised. An obviously stunned Daughtry could only utter, "A little, yeah." The media grabbed hold of the surprise elimination and (practically an Idol tradition at this point) there was some controversy regarding the accuracy of the vote count on the night Daughtry was eliminated. The vote-tallying website DialIdol, however, predicted that Daughtry was the lowest vote-getter for the week.[10] In an interview after his elimination, Daughtry said that he thought he got voted off because his fans were "overconfident" that he would be safe, so they did not call and vote. Later, he stated the best piece of advice he ever received was, "Don't believe your own hype," a possible nod toward his surprise American Idol elimination.[11]
During the Season Five finale on May 24, 2006, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Daughtry performed the song "Mystery" with the band Live. Live's version of the song was later available for download on the band's MySpace.com profile with Chris Daughtry performing backup vocals.
Performance review
| Week | Theme | Song | Artist | Status |
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| Audition | Free Choice | "The Letter" | The Boxtops | Advanced |
| Hollywood | Group Performance | "Emotion" with Ace Young and Bobby Bullard |
Samantha Sang | Advanced |
| Semifinals Top 24 |
Free Choice | "Wanted Dead or Alive" | Bon Jovi | Safe |
| Semifinals Top 20 |
Free Choice | "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" | Fuel | Safe |
| Semifinals Top 16 |
Free Choice | "Broken" | Seether feat. Amy Lee |
Safe |
| Top 12 | Songs of Stevie Wonder | "Higher Ground" | Stevie Wonder | Safe |
| Top 11 | Hits of the 1950s | "I Walk the Line" | Johnny Cash | Safe |
| Top 10 | 21st Century Hits | "What If" | Creed | Safe |
| Top 9 | Country Music | "Making Memories of Us" | Keith Urban | Safe |
| Top 8 | Music of Queen | "Innuendo" | Queen | Safe |
| Top 7 | The Great American Songbook | "What a Wonderful World" | Louis Armstrong | Bottom 2 |
| Top 6 | Greatest Love Songs | "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" | Bryan Adams | Safe |
| Top 5 | Year They Were Born Billboard Top 10 |
"Renegade" "I Dare You" |
Styx Shinedown |
Safe |
| Top 4 | Songs of Elvis | "Suspicious Minds" "A Little Less Conversation" |
Elvis Presley | Eliminated |
[edit] Post-Idol events
After leaving American Idol, Daughtry traveled the talk show circuit, which has become commonplace for non-winners as American Idol progressed through the years. He made appearances on The Tonight Show, Total Request Live, and The Today Show. He also appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, in which he performed "Wanted Dead or Alive". In a later episode of the show in which Ellen interviewed former presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, who were collaborating on the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund, she even jokingly asked if anything could be done about Chris Daughtry's elimination. Chris Daughtry was asked to audition as the lead vocalist for Fuel and, though incredibly flattered, he declined the offer in order to form his own band.
Daughtry[link]
For the week of June 10, 2006, Chris Daughtry's cover of "Wanted Dead or Alive" charted at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100, being named the Hot Shot Debut of the week. On July 10, 2006, it was announced that Daughtry had signed with 19 Entertainment and RCA Records and began working on an album that was to be released in November. It was also announced that, like season 4 rocker Constantine Maroulis, he would be forming his own band. His band was formed under the name Daughtry, after the singer's last name.[12] The band currently consists of Chris Daughtry, guitarists Josh Steely and Brian Craddock (the latter replaced former guitarist Jeremy Brady in 2007), bassist Josh Paul (formerly of Suicidal Tendencies), and drummer Robin Diaz (who replaced former drummer Joey Barnes in 2010). Daughtry's debut album was released on November 21, 2006. Chris Daughtry reportedly told US Weekly that the band's album "would not be... pop." The first single off Daughtry, "It's Not Over", was released November 21, 2006. The album reached number one in Billboard Charts with his debut album. He joins Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, and Ruben Studdard as the only contestants to reach number one in Billboard 200.[citation needed] The album featured Velvet Revolver and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, who performed the guitar solo on the eventual single "What I Want".
Beginning on March 14, 2007, on every episode of American Idol's sixth season's results show, Daughtry's song "Home" is played every time a participant is knocked out of the competition, as each of the losing contestants is asked to look at their own journeys. Additionally, on the final competition on May 22, 2007, Daughtry performed the song live at the end of the show. It also became the song for the eliminating home team for the 2007 NBA Playoffs. In March, Daughtry performed during the Final Four round of the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.[13] On May 27, Daughtry performed at the 2007 Indianapolis 500.[14]
On September 19, 2007 on ABC, Viva Las Vegas premiered, which was a tribute to Elvis Presley's career in Las Vegas. Daughtry performed an acoustic version of "Suspicious Minds". On November 18, 2007, the band was the winner of multiple awards at the "2007 American Music Awards" (ABC Television). The winning categories were: 1) Pop or Rock: Favorite Album - Daughtry; 2) Adult Contemporary Music: Favorite Artist; 3) Favorite Breakthrough Artist. On December 6, 2007, the band was nominated for four 50th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Rock Album for Daughtry, Best Rock Song for "It's Not Over", Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal for "Home", and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "It's Not Over".
On May 6, 2009, Daughtry performed "No Surprise", the debut single for their forthcoming album, on American Idol.[15] Chris Daughtry wrote the song with Nickelback vocalist Chad Kroeger.[15] The album on which "No Surprise" appears, Daughtry's second album titled Leave This Town, was released on July 14, 2009. Chris Daughtry made history with its release by becoming the first American Idol alumnus to have two consecutive number one albums. Leave This Town was the first Daughtry album that they wrote and recorded as a band, as their self-titled album was recorded before the band was officially formed and featured only Chris Daughtry as an official member.
On July 2, 2009, Daughtry performed an acoustic cover of Lady Gaga's Poker Face and has received over 25 million views on YouTube.
Daughtry kicked off a tour with Lifehouse and Cavo on August 2, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The final show of the tour was in Tempe, Arizona on October 13, 2009. The band played a show in Chris Daughtry's hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina on November 12, 2009.
On December 31, 2010, Daughtry tweeted that the band will be working on a new album soon.[16] On March 7, 2011, he tweeted that the album sounds nothing like the previous two and will feature a song titled "Spaceship."[17] There will be another song on the record called "Rescue Me", which the band has performed on stage in New Jersey. The album would be released on November 21, 2011, according to Daughtry's Twitter.
Daughtry has written and recorded a song for the soundtrack to the video game Batman: Arkham City. On September 5, 2011, Daughtry tweeted that the song "Drown In You" is exclusive to the soundtrack and will not be featured on his upcoming album.
On September 15, 2011, Daughtry posted a new song "Renegade" on his official website. His newest single "Crawling Back to You" was posted on the website and released on September 19, 2011.
On September 27, 2011, Daughtry announced that the new album will be titled Break the Spell.
Collaborations[link]
In 2008, Chris Daughtry provided vocals on a Sevendust track entitled "The Past" on their album Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow. He had previously stated he had become friends with the members of the band. Alter Bridge members Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti appear on the same album. In the same year, Chris Daughtry also provides vocals on the Theory of a Deadman song "By the Way", which is featured on their third album Scars and Souvenirs. Still in 2008, he appeared on the song "Slow Down" on the album Revelation by Christian rock band Third Day. In 2009, the band Daughtry collaborated with Timbaland collaborated on Timbaland's song "Long Way Down" from the album Shock Value II. During this time, Chris Daughtry has also co-written three songs with band Day of Fire for their 2010 album "Losing All", including the track "Hello Heartache".[18]
In 2010, he and Jason Wade performed a duet on Lifehouse's fifth studio album Smoke & Mirrors on the song "Had Enough". Chris Daughtry also co-wrote the song "Send Me All Your Angels" for American Idol season 8 winner Kris Allen's debut album. He later performed lead vocals on the cover Def Leppard's song "Photograph" with Carlos Santana on Santana's album called Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. It was released on September 21, 2010 with a performance on the Dancing with the Stars results show that day.
Personal life[link]
In a segment on the 2006 season of American Idol (before singing "Broken" by Seether), Chris Daughtry revealed that he is balding and made the decision to shave his head completely in order to retain an aesthetically pleasing appearance. He has been married to Deanna Daughtry since November 11, 2000. He has four children: a stepdaughter, Hannah, born September 7, 1996 from his wife's previous marriage, a son, Griffin, born June 30, 1998 and twins, Adalynn Rose and Noah James, born November 17, 2010.[19][20] In a December 2007 interview with Gibson Lifestyle, Chris Daughtry said, "I used to call [my wife] and just quickly throw in the towel. But I’ve found that the less I say and the more I actually listen to her, and just be there without actually being there, is the best thing I can do. As a man, I always feel like I need to say something. Sometimes I have to stop myself because all I want to do is call and tell her about how much awesome stuff is going on in my life, and, you know, her day is sucking hard. I could write a book on it, I’m serious.”[21]
Chris Daughtry and fellow Idol contestant Ace Young have been friends since they met at the show's Denver auditions, and even periodically shared an apartment as finalists. Young said they clicked because they shared similar upbringings and were both "big on family".[22] Ryan Seacrest had also dubbed them "the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon of the season" when the two were placed in the "bottom 2" together upon Young's elimination. In the final episode of the season, a clip of them in a "Best Male Bonding" segment was also shown.
Chris Daughtry lives in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.
Influences[link]
Chris Daughtry's musical influences include Creed, Bush, Live, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Journey, Bon Jovi, and Fuel.[5][23][24] He states that he grew up on rock and hard rock music.
Discography[link]
Cadence[link]
- All Eyes on You (1999)
Absent Element[link]
- Uprooted (2005)
Daughtry[link]
- Daughtry (2006)
- Leave This Town (2009)
- Break the Spell (2011)
Other works[link]
| Year | Artist | Album | Track(s) | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Sevendust | Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow | "The Past" | Lead vocals |
| Theory of a Deadman | Scars and Souvenirs | "By the Way" | Backing vocals | |
| Third Day | Revelation | "Slow Down" | Backing vocals | |
| 2009 | Timbaland | Shock Value II | "Long Way Down" | Lead vocals |
| Kris Allen | Kris Allen | "Send Me All Your Angels" | Songwriting | |
| Allison Iraheta | Just Like You | "Don't Wanna Be Wrong" | Songwriting | |
| 2010 | Day of Fire | Losing All | "Hello Heartache" "When I See You" "Airplane" |
Songwriting |
| Lifehouse | Smoke & Mirrors | "Had Enough" | Backing vocals | |
| Carlos Santana | Guitar Heaven | "Photograph" | Lead vocals | |
| 2012 | Various Artists | Pacific Standard Time | "4 A.M." | Lead vocals |
Notes[link]
^ a: The CD of Daughtry's former band, Absent Element, began to float around the internet during the 2006 season of American Idol.
References[link]
- ^ Macias, Chris (August 19, 2007). "Rock on!; A guide to the rest of the music-packed week". Sacramento Bee (California). pp. TK22.
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- ^ http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.abspx?id=280407&sourcetype=C&tvobjectid=280407 Online.tvguide.com
- ^ Ho, Rodney (April 25, 2006). "American Idol: 25 days to final: Who's who on eBay", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, p. E1.
- ^ a b Scaggs, Austin (April 5, 2007), "Chris Daughtry". Rolling Stone. (1023):30
- ^ http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13124105/ MSNBC.msn.com
- ^ http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/7659307/detail.html Accesshollywood.com
- ^ http://www.wesh.com/entertainment/8297496/detail.html http://www.wesh.com/entertainment/8297496/detail.html Wesh.com
- ^ http://www.daughtryofficial.com/us/event/2008/08/03
- ^ DialIdol predictions page http://www.dialidol.com/asp/predictions/Predictions.asp?week=4&sort=TD&type=score&season=5 DialIdol predictions page Dialidol.com
- ^ Armstrong, Josh (August 19, 2009). "Daughtry to Leave This Town". KnowTheArtist.com. http://knowtheartist.com/music/daughtry-to-leave-this-town/. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-07-10-daughtry_x.htm USAtoday.com
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ "Rock Sensation Daughtry to Perform on Indy 500 Race Day | IndyCar Series". Auto Racing Daily. 2007-05-24. http://www.autoracingdaily.com/news/indycar-series/rock_sensation_daughtry_to_perform_on_indy_500_race_day/. Retrieved 2010-06-01.
- ^ a b "Lyrics to No Surprise". http://www.daughtryofficial.com/blog/lyrics-no-surprise-interpret-it-how-you.
- ^ http://twitter.com/CHRIS_Daughtry/status/21084201008766977
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- ^ [4]
- ^ Biography for Chris Daughtry at the Internet Movie Database
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- ^ http://realitytv.about.com/b/a/257673.htm Realitytv.about.com
- ^ Daughtry Biography AMG
- ^ Daughtry at Rolling Stone
External links[link]
- Official website
- Daughtry live set at Spanking New Sessions
- Chris Daughtry at the Internet Movie Database
- Daughtry Interview with Gibson Guitar by Ellen Mallernee
- The Chris Daughtry Fanlisting
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