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The wild card speaks! Clay Aiken dishes about ‘American Idol’ makeover, Michael Sandecki duet, ‘Breast Friend’ photo scandal, spoiling his finale result, musical comeback, and ‘disgusting, broken’ politics By

When Clay Aiken triumphantly returned to the American Idol stage for this week’s Season 24 finale, rocking a new fashion-forward look (palazzo pants, pastel polka-pot blouse, peroxided pixie), he performed...

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Carrie Underwood on her dream of a Jacoby Shaddix-mentored ‘American Idol’ Nü-Metal Night, and why she still dreams of a hard-rocker ‘Idol’ win By

Carrie Underwood is always flying the flag for hard rock and heavy metal on American Idol (who can forget her impromptu audition-room covers of Korn and Drowning Pool last year?),...

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‘American Idol’ Season 24 winner and mom-of-three Hannah Harper talks husband’s ‘sacrifices,’ support: ‘That man has never made me feel like my flame should be any dimmer’ By

When 25-year-old mom Hannah Harper won American Idol on Monday, it was a slightly bittersweet occasion, because the Season 24 finale took place just one day after Mother’s Day. It was actually...

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Josiah Leming talks hard-earned, later-in-life Bonnevilles success, 18 years after ‘Idol’: ‘I feel like I’ve been brought back from the dead’ By

Eighteen (yes, 18!) years ago, a fresh-faced, heart-sleeved Appalachian teen named Josiah Leming — now better known as for his acclaimed Americana namesake band Josiah and the Bonnevilles, whose brilliant...

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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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