American Idol
Wednesday 8:00 PM on FOX
Cast & Crew
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Tatynisa Wilson
Twenty-Second Place (Season 10)
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Stefano Langone
Seventh Place(Season 10)
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Scotty McCreery
Winner (Season 10)
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Robbie Rosen
Fourteenth Place (Season 10)
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Rachel Zevita
Seventeenth Place (Season 10)
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Pia Toscano
Ninth Place (Season 10)
Pia Toscano is an American singer that gained notoriety by competing on the 10th season of American Idol. After being eliminated from the show she signed a recording contract with Interscope Records. -
Paul McDonald
Eighth Place (Season 10)
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Naima Adedapo
Eleventh Place (Season 10)
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Lauren Turner
Nineteenth Place (Season 10)
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Lauren Alaina
Runner-Up (Season 10)
Alaina was born in 1994 to Kristy and J.J. Suddeth of Rossville, Georgia. Her father works as a process technician in Chattanooga. -
Kendra Chantelle
Sixteenth Place (Season 10)
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Karen Rodriguez
Twelfth Place (Season 10)
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Julie Zorrilla
Twenty-First Place (Season 10)
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Jacob Lusk
Fifth Place (Season 10)
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Jovany Barreto
Fifteenth Place (Season 10)
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Jordan Dorsey
Twenty-Third Place (Season 10)
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James Durbin
Fourth Place (Season 10)
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Thia Megia
Tenth Place (Season 10)
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Clint Jun Gamboa
Twenty- Fourth Place (Season 10)
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Casey Abrams
Sixth Place (Season 10)
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Brett Loewenstern
Eighteenth Place (Season 10)
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Ashthon Jones
Thirteenth Place (Season 10)
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Haley Reinhart
Third Place (Season 10)
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Chris Golightly
Disqualifed (Season 9)
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Steven Tyler
Judge ( Season 10 + )
Many would agree that one of rock's all-time charismatic and entertaining frontman would have to be Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Born Steven Victor Tallarico on March 26, 1948 (just outside New York City in Yonkers), he began playing drums at an early age, but eventually switched to vocals after discovering the Beatles, as well as the tougher blues rock of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds. After moving to Boston in the late '60s, Steven hooked up with two members of an up-and-coming outfit called the Jam Band, guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, and after finding drummer Joey Kramer and second guitarist Ray Tabano (who was eventually replaced with Brad Whitford), renamed themselves Aerosmith. The band became a regional sensation, combining the blues sleaze of the Stones/Yardbirds, as well as the power of such hard rock acts as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, as Steven (who by now had changed his name to "Steven Tyler") proved to have a flair for the outrageous -- his stage outfits resembled a rock & roll gypsy look, while long scarves dangled from his microphone stand. By 1973, Aerosmith was signed to Columbia Records and as soon as the quintet issued their self-titled debut that year, the band was besieged with non-stop comparisons to their idols, the Rolling Stones (or more concisely, Tyler and Perry's resemblance both musically and visually to Jagger and Richards). Although the debut didn't set the world on fire, word of mouth and constant touring built the band a hardcore following and due to such all-time hard rock classics as 1974's Get Your Wings, 1975's Toys in the Attic, and 1976's Rocks, Aerosmith became a sensation, selling out arenas and scoring big-time hit albums and singles (the proto-power ballad Dream On and the funky rocker Walk This Way). But with fame came hardcore drug abuse for the band, which also created constant bickering between the band's two leaders. With the rock & roll lifestyle taking its toll on the band (their albums grew increasingly more and more unfocused), Perry quit the band to pursue a solo career in 1979, with Whitford following a year later. Refusing to admit that Aerosmith's best days were behind them, Steven soldiered on with replacement members, as his whole life centered around where and when he would score his next fix (all the sordid details are recounted first hand by Steven in Aerosmith's excellent 1999 autobiography, Walk This Way). With the band in disarray, fast approaching bankruptcy and reduced to headlining theatres as opposed to the enormous football stadiums during their heyday, Tyler and Perry patched up their differences in 1983, leading to a reunion of all the original members a year later. It took a while for the band members to clean up their act, but by 1987 all were clean and sober and promptly reclaimed their title as one of the United States' finest rock & roll bands, on the strength of sold out arena tours and such mega-hit albums as Permanent Vacation and Pump. In the process Steven became one of the most influential front-men in rock & roll history, as a plethora of singers in '80s hard rock bands (Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose, Cinderella's Tom Keifer, Motley Crue's Vince Neil, the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, etc.) all resembled Steven circa 1976 with their look and vocal delivery. By the '90s, Steven and co. had reinvented themselves as an MTV band, focusing on more pop-oriented material (such as the soppy number one hit ballad I Don't Want to Miss a Thing from the movie Armageddon), while Tyler's daughter, Liv, became a major model and actress. Bio courtesy of http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/tyler_steven/bio.jhtmlmoreless -
Jennifer Lopez
Judge (Season 10 +)
Jennifer grew up in the Bronx, in Castle Hill. She is of Puerto Rican descent. Both her parents are Puerto Rican. Her parents' names are Guadalupe Rodriguz and David Lopez. She has two sisters named Lynda and Leslie. She attended 12 years of Catholic school and was in an all girl high school. During high school she was athletic, playing tennis and softball and participating in gymnastics. Jennifer began singing and dancing at the age of 5. She ended up engaged at the young age of 15 to David Cruz. She was married to Ojani Noa, a waiter, dancer Cris Judd, and singer Marc Anthony is her latest husband. Jennifer worked with singer Janet Jackson during Janet's tours and in her music videos, before making it in the music world on her own.moreless -
Tim Halperin
Twentith Place (Season 10)
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Jimmy Iovine
Mentor (Season 10)
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John Park
Twentieth Place - (Season 9)
John Park started singing in 7th grade in his school choir. He had formal singing lessons one year before he started college. His pre-performance ritual is to check and make sure his fly is zipped. John Park was voted off American Idol in the first round of eliminations in the top 24.moreless -
Tyler Grady
Twenty-First Place (Season 9)
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