Artist: Diana DeGarmo
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Dreams
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Blue Skies
Year:
Tracks: 12
Only 16 and a junior in high schoolhouse in Snellville, GA, Diana DeGarmo was the youngest finalist of American English Idol 2004, merely you wouldn't have guessed it from her powerful, positive vocalization. Growing up a entertainment industry kid certainly helped. DeGarmo had been in Atlanta-based productions of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at a young eld and performed at the 1996 Summer Olympics as office of the Coca-Cola's "Olympic Kids." She later became a cast member of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Gang and got her first penchant of televised natural endowment shows when she became a finalist on NBC's America's Most Talented Kid. Being besides young to auditory sense for the first time of year of American Idol foiled DeGarmo to the detail of boycotting it, only taking a peek midseason, the pres Young hopeful became a massive Kelly Clarkson fan. She was still likewise danton True Young for season deuce, only studied it intensely, and became Miss Teen Georgia in the meantime. Prior engagements kept her from auditioning for time of year tierce during the show's diaphragm in nearby Atlanta, so DeGarmo and family took a vacation to Hawaii to catch the adjacent tryouts. She was in and worked her way up to second best, losing to Fantasia Barrino. While Barrino saturday atop the charts with "I Believe," DeGarmo took the number two slot with her individual "Dreams," written by popular tunesmith Desmond Child, whom DeGarmo had known since the eld of 12 through a friend (according to the singer, Child had in reality put a reference to her in his hit for Ricky Martin, "She Bangs," with the line "she switches sides like a Gemini"). A national circuit with the time of year three Graven image contestants followed earlier her debut album, Blue Skies, strike the shelves at the end of the 2004.
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