From the Super Bowl to Sesame Street, with the grace only Carrie Underwood could muster. Wonder what in the world I’m talking about? Well, I just got the latest Carrie Underwood news. She’s going to appear on Sesame Street Feb. 11. Or at least a character created in her likeness (?) will be on the…
Alex Lambert A 19-year-old from North Richland Hills, Texas, Alex sang and played guitar with a band called Hands That Hurt prior to Idol. And judging from photos and videos of the band performing, prefers to wear sunglasses all the time. On MySpace, he classifies his music as acoustic / crunk / indie. Besides sounds…
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…
Andrew Garcia He’s the 23-year-old from Moreno Valley, Calif., who had a featured role in the Los Angeles audition show — the guy who wants a better life for his young son after watching his parents struggle and hearing how they were involved with gangs in their earlier days. Remember? We met his parents, too,…
Carrie worried about forgetting the lyrics to the national anthem at today’s Super Bowl. She need not have fretted. The performance came off flawlessly, of course. And the Carrie Underwood news keeps coming at us, fast and furious. For instance … * Carrie has landed a role in her first studio movie, called “Soul Surfer.”…
For starters, I never again want to hear about Wheat Thins. I don’t want to see one, let alone eat one. After all, I’ve just watched videos done by about 180 Hollywood-bound American Idol contestants. Dozens and dozens and dozens of which were preceded by a wheat thin commercial. But I learned lots about those…
Carrie hemmed. Carrie hawed. She was facing the toughest question of the day. And it had nothing to do with a Cowboy quarterback named Tony Romo. She got this apologetic look on her face, then finally confessed her allegiance. “I hope people won’t hate me. I hate picking sides. But I’ll probably, 51 percent, be…
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…
Everything else is coming up roses for Carrie Underwood these days, why shouldn’t she be graced with another top 10 country hit? I mean, she recently got engaged. She just won another Grammy. Her new album debuted at number one. She’ll have the honors of singing the national anthem for Sunday’s Super Bowl. And her…
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