Ruben Studdard released his fifth album, “Letters to Birmingham,” today. It’s being billed as his most personal album to date, though he co-wrote only one of the 12 base tracks. That’s partly because it tells the tale of lost found and lost, mirroring the experience of Idol’s Season 2 champ. In November, after a little…
Nearly eight years after leaving the American Idol stage after finishing second to Fantasia, Diana DeGarmo filmed her first music video Tuesday. “My very first music video has officially been shot,” she said in a tweet from Malibu. “I’m in awe.” The video is for a song called “Good Goodbye,” and, according to @dianadnews, it’s…
AmericanIdol.com has posted a new series of videos with the Season 11 finalists. Too busy to listen to all 12 videos? Or not patient enough to sit through the commercial that proceeds each video? Fear not. I’ll fill you in on what you’re missing. This is the third blog in the series. Previously, the Idols described…
Viewers of The Voice will rememeber Jamie Lono as the sandwich-making singer. For the last four years, he says he has worked at Potbelly Sandwich Works in Chicago, pausing the sandwich making for two hours every Friday night to perform for the customers. But I’ll tell you, it’s a good thing Jamie tried out for…
If you’ve lost track of any of the 48 remaining contestants on The Voice, here’s where we’re at. Last week, Tony Lucca, Rae Lynn, Chris Mann, Cheesa, Jordis Unga and Jesse Campbell earned spots in the live shows. Unfortunately, that meant saying goodbye to Chris Cauley, Adley Stump, Monique Benabou, Angie Johnson, Brian Fuente and…
Anyone who watched much of Season 8 of American Idol probably recalls Jamar Rogers. He was Danny Gokey’s best friend, another of the early front-runners among the Idol guys that season. But while Danny went on to finish third on Idol that year, Jamar got cut in Hollywood, formed a short-lived partnership with another ousted…
A week after being forced to sing Whitney Houston or Stevie Wonder, our remaining 12 Idols get a nice broad theme for Week 2. Yep, it’s the tried and true theme — “Songs from the Year of Their Birth.” By this point, it’s a little tired too. But it will allow the contestants to tackle…
This 25-year-old from Reno, Nev., has already been performing music for 11 years and now fronts the Whitney Myer band, which includes her dad and uncle. Of course, none of that is surprisingly, seeing as how Whitney grew up around music. In her bio on the band’s website, Whitney says her mother played guitar, keyboard…
Orlando Napier started playing piano in his dad’s band at age 18. By 20, he was singing. And, today, it’s his band. And his dad doesn’t mind one bit, still performing alonside his son, playing tenor sax. In fact, if Orlando makes it far enough on The Voice, he vows to try to get his…
Compared to lots of singers on The Voice, Nathan Parrett is a novice. You won’t find his music on iTunes. You won’t find tons of videos on a YouTube channel. But don’t underestimate the 24-year-old South Carolinian, who now lives in Los Angeles. In a segment for Channel 6-WECT, his former theater teacher Amy Jones…
