Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Vered “Didi” Benami Didi’s the 22-year-old from Hollywood who got so emotional during her audition and says she sings for a college roommate who died suddenly. Here’s the rest of the story. The roommate was Rebecca Joy Lear, a singer/songwriter from Wichita, Kansas, who helped Didi develop her musical ability. According to Didi’s MySpace, they…

Blake Marvin This guy from Lone Tree, Colo., heads his own country-pop-rock band and released a seven-track CD, “Keep Movin’ On, back in 2007. He said he’d been thinking about auditioning for Idol for six or seven years and finally did it in season nine because was prodded by “everybody I know.” His most memorable…

Alex Nester This Simi Valley, Calif., resident is a singer, songwriter and cancer surviver. She was diagnosed with cancer back in 2000, at age 16, shortly after winning outstanding female vocalist honors at the Los Angeles Music Award. After chemotherapy and a year-long battle with the disease, she was declared cancer free. “That gives you…