Today’s a big day for season four American Idol contestant Anwar Robinson. Six years after he appeared on the show, Anwar has released his first album, “Everything.” The 10-track indie album was co-written and produced by Anwar and features the same smooth, heartfelt vocals that helped him finish seventh the year Carrie Underwood took the Idol…
Another in a series of blogs featuring Hollywood-bound American Idol contestants. Keep checking back. More to come. My favorite Luke James story is one he told during his Idol video interview last year. Asked about his most memorable performance, he cited the time he opened for Danity Kane. “My genre of music and their genre…
A look at another of last week’s golden ticket recipients … keep checking back. I’ll be posting more. Pia Toscano — full name Pia Ann Rose Toscano — describes her music as pop/R&B/ soul on her MySpace music page. In a video interview on YouTube, she describes herself as a wedding singer. But she performs…
Apparently, Jennifer Hudson’s been doing more than losing weight and filming Weight Watchers commercials lately, though it’d be easy to think otherwise considering how often she’s been seen on TV lately. Today, Jennifer released her new single, “Where You At,” which you can listen to below. And there’s more coming. The song is the lead…
If perseverance counts for anything, Jessica Cunningham of Portland, Maine, should have a leg up on other contestants in American Idol season 10. If experience counts for anything … well, ditto. I mean, by now, Jessica should have this Idol audition routine down pat. This is her seventh … yes, seventh … year auditioning for…
Presumbably, if Casey wants to succeed on Idol this year, she’s going to have to learn to perform without her guitar. That’s unless Nigel Lythgoe relents on his vow to limit the use of instruments during seaosn 10. Anyway, back to Casey, a singer-songwriter from Toms River, New Jersey, who classifies her music as acoustic…
Hey, don’t count last year’s Idol finalists out yet when it comes to the music charts. Yeah, Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox are a long way from going platinum. And, yeah, January is a slow time of the year for album sales. But Lee and Crystal haven’t done a disappearing act on the Billboard 200….
Fans were treated to a pair of Lee DeWyze albums in 2010 — “Slumberland,” his second indie album released just before he appeared on Idol ; and “Live It Up,” his post-Idol debut released in November. Now it looks like there will be another Lee album in 2011, of material recorded pre-Idol. That’s based on…
Could it really happen this time? There’s another release date for Kimberly Caldwell’s first album, “Without Regret.” Vanguard Records recently announced it will be available April 19. This is the same album that was supposed to be released last spring, then last summer in order to add new songs, then in late December or early…
One of the most promising female vocalists we’ve met so far on Idol is a 28-year-old Texan, Sarah Sellers. During the New Orleans auditions, Sarah introduced herself as a marketing analyst and a food and music blogger. You say you don’t remember her? She was the gal whose lips were compared to Steven Tyler’s. Ah,…
