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Four years after making the finals on American Idol, Alexis Grace has launched a pledge drive to finance her first post-Idol music.

The gal who finished 11th on Season 8 is planning an EP for release later this year.

Alexis Grace is planning an EP, her first since appearing on American Idol.

A $10 donation gets a download of the EP and updates on the album-making process. Chip in another dollar, and you’ll get Alexis’ grilled cheese recipe.

Of course, larger donations are welcome and will garner bigger rewards, from a signed CD ($20), to a Skype session ($50), to an acoustic house concert ($1,500).

The pledge drive runs for nearly two more months, and Alexis is already 10 percent of the way toward reaching her goal.

So what’s the Season 8 finalist been up to since Idol?

Now 25 and living in Memphis, Alexis is a morning DJ for a Top 40 radio station, Q107.5.

She has also appeared in a couple of Memphis community theater productions — “Chicago” and “Legally Blonde.”

On Facebook, she lists her genre as soul, roots, funk and folk, writing that her music is “heavily influenced by the Memphis soul movement from the ’60s and ’70s.

For more on Alexis’ planned EP, head here. You’ll even hear a snippet of the first song she’s recorded for the EP.