29 | January | 2012 | Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Hannah Anderson

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Hannah Anderson auditioned for American Idol as part of a deal. Her brother is in Afghanistan with the U.S. military. He made her agree to try out for American Idol. So there she was in Galveston, earning a golden ticket to Hollywood. OK, she admits, it wasn’t a very fair deal. Hannah says she’s different…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Gabrielle Greene

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Gabrielle Greene says there wasn’t one thing that prompted her to try out for American Idol in Galveston, but that she was “really excited” to do so. But not as excited as she was after getting her golden ticket. She says that immediately became her favorite American Idol moment. Like many of the Idol contestants…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Gabi Mercaldo

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Gabi Mercaldo says she’s been singing since she was just 2 years old “for dinner guests and small things like that.” Those small things developed into enough experience that she got a golden ticket at the Idol audiitons in Galveston. Gabi says she’d like to use her music to help people from broken homes and…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Erica Young

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Erica Young started singing in her father’s church when she was young. And that’s all it took to hook her. “I really knew that’s what I wanted to do.” Erica, of Alamogordo, N.M., was 28 when she tried out and admits that her friends threatened her to do it, in part because it’s her last year…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Eric Burton

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 1

Eric Burton recalls how his grandmother made him join the choir in church. “I’m like, ‘OK, grandma.” What surprised him is, it wasn’t that bad. “I remember it being very, very liberating,” he says in his golden ticket interview. “I was really taken by just performing.” So years later, there he was, in Galveston, Texas,…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Dylan Loza

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Here’s a different sort of American Idol contestant — a male singer who looked forward to meeting Steven Tyler. Dylan Loza says that’s because Steven has “been one of my favorite artists for a long time.” Of course, he didn’t mind meeting Jennifer Lopez either because he’s “had a crush on her forever.” Dylan hails…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Crystal Omondi

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Crystal Omondi says her first musical performance “scarred me for life,” but she says it with a laugh. She was 5 and getting down to the Spice girls, not knowing that her brother and his friends were playing video games just outside. “So I come out full force, coreography and everything from this music video,…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Cosette Fife

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 0

Cosette Fife admits she was suprised to get to audition in front of the Idol judges after traveling to Galveston. The fact that she wound up with a golden ticket “is insane,” she says. Her parents have always encouraged her love of music, says the teen from Gilbert, Ariz. She first started performing in front…
Clayton Farhat, Season 11
Meet American Idol contestant Clayton Farhat

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 4

Clayton Farhat first appeared on stage at the age of 6 or 7. And he remembers it well. His grandfather played in a bluegrass band and bribed him with a $5 bill. “Of course, when you’re 6 or 7, $5 is a lot of money,” Clayton says in his golden ticket interview. “So I got…
Non-featured Season 11 Contestants, Season 11
Meet Hollywood bound Chris Lawrence

January 29, 2012 By Mark Franklin 1

Chris Lawrence had a simple reason for auditioning for American Idol Season 11. He made it to Hollywood last year, but got eliminated there. “I had this bug under me to get back to Hollywood and prove to the judges and everyone I could go farther,” he says in his golden ticket interview. Chris, of St….

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