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David Archuleta on the ‘messy’ scandal that tore his family apart, forgiving his father, and how Adore Delano made him feel ‘seen and safe’ during his ‘terrifying’ ‘American Idol’ experience By

In his new bombshell autobiography, Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself, pop singer David Archuleta writes with heartbreaking candor — admitting that at times he even wept while typing...

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KT Tunstall on how a last-minute ‘Jools Holland’ booking ‘completely changed my life overnight’ By

Twenty years ago, on Feb. 7, 2006, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall released her debut album, Eye to the Telescope, in America. Three months later, runner-up Katharine McPhee covered the LP’s...

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The War and Treaty’s Michael Trotter Jr. & Tanya Trotter talk upcoming biopic: “The tagline is, ‘The war brought him music. Music brought him love.’” By

Twenty years ago, Michael Trotter Jr., a U.S. Army veteran and one-half of married Americana duo the War and Treaty, nearly competed on American Idol. “I tell this story all...

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‘American Idol’ runner-up John Foster on how “the most beautiful and yet the most horrific thing I’ve ever created” became his career’s “defining moment”: “That song was like, ‘OK, I need to be a musician.’” By

When 18-year-old country crooner John Foster took a risk and performed an original song on American Idol Season 23’s “Songs of Faith” Easter episode, it was a turning point for...

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‘American Idol’ judges, executive producer react to historic Season 23 finale: ‘America needed to see the two of them standing together’ By

It seems wrong to call Jamal Roberts’s victory on the American Idol Season 23 finale a “surprise,” since he is without question one of the greatest male vocalists to ever...

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‘American Idol’ Season 23 winner Jamal Roberts on the secret to ‘Jamalerizing’ any song, why he knew his ‘Mary Jane’ audition would ‘ruffle some feathers,’ and why he welcomed Carrie Underwood’s criticism By

New American Idol champion Jamal Roberts barely had time to brush the confetti off his sequined waistcoat before he met with Lyndsanity and other Idol reporters backstage at Sunday’s Season 23...

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Songwriter Knox talks ‘unexpected’ pop career, Matty Healy sliding into his DMs, being rejected by ‘American Idol,’ and his ‘big goal’ to write a song for Katy Perry By

“It’s just been a crazy and honestly kind of unexpected journey. I never thought I would be an artist. I was always just trying to be the songwriter, and I...

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Daniel Seavey may ‘never escape the memes’ of his past, but the former Idol and boy band star is already on his third wind By

“I’ll never escape the memes that have been created. There’s this meme of me at 15, of me crying when I got voted off Idol, that still haunts me,” jokes...

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After ‘Idol’ and loss, Lee DeWyze releases career-defining opus ‘Gone for Days’: ‘I really had to do some soul-searching’ (BONUS PERFORMANCE) By

“Coming off of a show like American Idol, the first thing that I thought of, the minute they said my name, after I got over the shock of it, it...

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Adam Lambert cover story for Music Connection magazine By

I recently had the immense delight and honor of interviewing at length one of my all-time favorite singers, pop multi-hyphenate Adam Lambert, for the Film & Television fall 2024 issue of...

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