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Taylor Hicks

admin — Thu, 25 May 2006 06:40:22 +0000

Taylor Hicks
Birth-date: 7th October 1976
Winner May 24th 2006

Songs Performed:

Levon
Easy
Taking it to the Streets
Living for the City
Not Fade Away
Trouble
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
You Send Me
Just Once
Play That Funky Musi
Something
Jailhouse Rock
In The Ghetto
Dancing in the Dark
You are so Beautiful
Try a Little Tenderness
Living for the City
Levon
Do I Make You Proud

Taylor Hicks, born on the 7th October 1976, is an American singer who achieved fame in 2006, when he won the fifth season of American Idol. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released two independent albums. Upon winning Idol, he was signed to Arista Records, under which his self-titled major label debut was released on December 12, 2006.
His energetic stage performances and influences derived from classic rock, blues, and R&B music had earned him a following of devout fans, who have been dubbed the “Soul Patrol.”
His CD, The Distance, was released March 10, 2009, with the first single, “What’s Right Is Right”, going to AC adds January 27, 2009.

Katharine McPhee

admin — Thu, 25 May 2006 04:00:41 +0000

Katharine McPhee
Birthdate: 25th March 1984
Eliminated: May 24th 2006, 2nd Place

Songs Performed:

Since I Fell for You by Lenny Welch
All in Love is Fair by Stevie Wonder
Think by Aretha Franklin
Until You Come Back to Me by Aretha Franklin
Come Rain or Come Shine by Ella Fitzgerald
The Voice Within by Christina Aguilera
Bringing Out the Elvis by Faith Hill
Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen
Someone to Watch Over Me by Ella Fitzgerald
I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) by Phil Collins
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall
Hound Dog/All Shook Up by Elvis Presley
Can’t Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley
I Believe I Can Fly by R. Kelly
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues by Ella Fitzgerald
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
My Destiny written for Katharine McPhee

Elliott Yamin

admin — Thu, 18 May 2006 04:39:04 +0000

Elliott Yamin
Birthdate: 20th July 1978
Elimnated: May 17th 2006, 3rd Place

Songs Performed:

A Song for You by Donny Hathaway
Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts
The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in Her Kiss) by Betty Everett
A Song for You by Donny Hathaway
If You Really Love Me by Stevie Wonder
Moody’s Mood for Love by James Moody
Heaven by Bryan Adams
Knocks Me Off My Feet by Stevie Wonder
Teach Me Tonight by The DeCastro Sisters
I Don’t Want to Be by Gavin DeGraw
If Tomorrow Never Comes by Garth Brooks
Somebody to Love by Queen
It Had to Be You by Frank Sinatra
A Song for You by Donny Hathaway
On Broadway by George Benson
Home by Michael Bublé
If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley
Trouble by Elvis Presley
Open Arms by Journey
What You Won’t Do for Love by Bobby Caldwell
I Believe to My Soul by Ray Charles (Donny Hathaway’s version)

Chris Daughtry

admin — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:38:19 +0000

Chris Daughtry
Birthdate: 26 December 1979
Eliminated: May 10th 2006, 4th Place

Songs Performed:

Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi
Hemorrhage (In My Hands) by Fuel
Broken by Seether
Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder
I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash
What If by Creed
Making Memories of Us by Keith Urban
Innuendo by Queen
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? by Bryan Adams
Renegade by Styx
I Dare You by Shinedown
Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
A Little Less Conversation by Elvis Presley

Paris Bennett

admin — Thu, 04 May 2006 04:37:32 +0000

Paris Bennett
Birthdate: 21st August 1988
Eliminated: May 3rd 2006, 5th Place

Songs Performed

Midnight Train To Georgia
Wind Beneath My Wings
Conga
All I Do
Fever
Work It Out
How Do I Live
The Show Must Go On
These Foolish Things
The Way We Were
Kiss
Be Without You

Kellie Pickler

admin — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:36:52 +0000

Kellie Pickler
Birthdate: 28 June 1986
Eliminated: April 26th 2006, 6th Place

Songs Performed:

How Far
Something To Talk About
I’m The Only One
Blame it on the Sun
Walkin’ After Midnight
Suds in the Bucket
Fancy
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Unchained Melody

Ace Young

admin — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:36:07 +0000

Ace Young
Birthdate: 15th November 1980
Eliminated: April 19th , 7th Place

Songs Performed:

Father Figure
If You’re Not the One
Butterflies
Do I Do
In the Still of the Night
Drops of Jupiter
Tonight I Want to Cry
We Will Rock You
That’s All

Bucky Covington

admin — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:35:17 +0000

Bucky Covington
Birthdate: 8th November 1977
Eliminated: April 12th 2006, 8th Place

Songs Performed:

Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks
Wave on Wave by Pat Green
Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Oh Boy by Buddy Holly
Real Good Man by Tim McGraw
Best I Ever Had by Gary Allan
Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen

Mandisa

admin — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:34:27 +0000

Mandisa
Birthdate: 2nd October 1976
Eliminated: April 5th 2006, 9th Place

Songs Performed

Never by Heart
Cry by Faith Hill
I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing by Stevie Wonder
I Don’t Hurt Anymore by Dinah Washington
Praise You by Mary Mary
Any Man Of Mine by Shania Twain

Lisa Tucker

admin — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:33:32 +0000

Lisa Tucker
Birthdate: 13th June 1989
Eliminated: March 29th 2006, 10th Place

Songs Performed:

I Am Changing by Jennifer Holliday
Who’s Loving You by The Jackson 5
Here’s Where I Stand by Tiffany Taylor
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) by Stevie Wonder
Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Because of You by Kelly Clarkson