American idol biography

In the twenty-second season, the show repeated the process from the twentieth season. Finals The finals are broadcast in primetime from Los Angeles, in front of a live studio audience except the eighteenth seasondue to the COVID pandemic. Starting init changed to Red Studios. The finals lasted eight weeks in the first season. From the second to ninth and fourteenth seasons, the finals lasted eleven weeks.

The tenth and eleventh seasons lasted for twelve weeks, while the twelfth season lasted for ten weeks. In the thirteenth season, the finals lasted thirteen weeks. The finals lasted seven weeks in the fifteenth season, and six weeks in the sixteenth season. Each finalist performs songs based on a weekly theme which may be a musical genre such as Motowndiscoor big bandsongs by artists such as Michael JacksonElvis Presley or The Beatlesor more general themes such as Billboard number-one hits or songs from the contestant's year of birth.

Contestants usually worked with a celebrity mentor related to the theme. From the tenth to twelfth seasons, Jimmy Iovine was brought in as a mentor for the season. Initially the contestants sang one song each week, but this was increased to two songs from top four or five onwards, then three songs for the top two or three. The most popular contestants are usually not revealed in the results show.

Instead, typically the three contestants two in later rounds who received the lowest number of votes was called to the center of the stage. One of these three was usually sent to safety; however the two remaining were not necessarily the bottom two. A montage of the eliminated contestant's time on the show was played and they gave their final performance from the fourteenth season onward, the montage and the final performance were dropped.

However, in the sixth seasonduring the series' first ever Idol Gives Back episode, no contestant was eliminated, but on the following week, two were sent home. Moreover, from the eighth to the fourteenth seasons, and the seventeenth season onward, the judges may overturn viewers' decision with a "Judges' Save" if they american idol biography agreed to.

In the eighth to tenth and fourteenth seasons, a double elimination then took place in the week following the activation of the save, but in the eleventh and thirteenth seasons, a regular single elimination took place. The save was not activated in the twelfth season and consequently, a non-elimination took place in the week after its expiration with the votes then carrying over into the following week.

The "Fan Save" was introduced in the fourteenth season. Inshe left Texas for the West Coast to pursue a living as a singer. Though she made ends meet with waitressing gigs and occasionally appearing as an extra on television shoots, misfortune soon struck and she returned home to Texas where she heard about a new, upcoming show called American Idol.

She applied, along with 10, other hopeful entertainers. But then my apartment in L. That song was also her first chart-topper, becoming the highest-selling single of Her debut album, Thankful, also hit number one and was nominated for a Grammy. From tohe joined the rock group Journeyinitially as a session musician for their album Raised on Radiobefore joining the band for the subsequent tour.

American idol biography

He moved to Italy in the late s and played on a record by Italian pop star Zucchero. The record, Zucchero and the Randy Jackson Band, was produced by Corrado Rustici who played guitar with Jackson on many albums in the early s. Zucchero and Jackson presented the album's lead single " Donne " at the 35th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.

Richards assembled an all-star band which included Aretha Franklin on piano and lead vocals and Jackson on bass guitar. Viewers first met Tongi at his audition during the season premiere on February He told judges Perry, Luke Bryanand Lionel Richie he moved from Hawaii to Seattle three years ago with his mother and immediate family. According to BillboardTongi, who was born September 1,is the youngest of five children and learned to play the ukulele in fifth grade.