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Ear Candy would like to send a big congrats to Blake Lewis for being a great performer and competitor on American Idol. You represented yourself and Seattle well and I think everyone is pretty proud of you.
With said, everyone knows finsihing second on Idol isn’t too bad of a spot to be in. For example, there’s the creepy Chris Daughtry who is a recording star and didn’t finish as the winner of AI. Then there are the other examples such as Clay Aiken, Jennifer Hudson, Kathryn McPhee and Justin Guarini … er, wait scratch that last one.

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Winning American Idol could start Jordin Sparks on an impressive career.
America’s embrace of her recalls clinches with previous victors Kelly Clarkson
and Carrie Underwood, who have delivered best-selling CDs and collected
Grammys.

Sparks defeated runner-up Blake Lewis on Wednesday night, and host Ryan
Seacrest revealed that 74 million votes had been cast.

“Thank you so much for everything,” Sparks said. “Mom, Dad, I love you.”

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Associated Press Finalists Blake Lewis (right) and Jordin Sparks (left) react as Ryan Seacrest announces they will each get a new Ford Mustang. ‘WELL, SHE was just 17," and last night she became the youngest winner ever of Fox’s "American Idol."

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“American Idol” finally became what its judges have always insisted it is,
a singing competition, as Jordin Sparks won the sixth-season crown over Blake
Lewis on Wednesday night before a capacity audience at Hollywood’s Kodak
Theater and millions of Fox TV viewers at home.

“Mom, Dad, I love you,” Sparks, at 17 the youngest winner to date, said
tearfully after getting a bear hug from Lewis, 25.

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“American Idol” finally became what its judges have always insisted it is,
a singing competition, as Jordin Sparks won the sixth-season crown over Blake
Lewis on Wednesday night before a capacity audience at Hollywood’s Kodak
Theater and millions of Fox TV viewers at home.

“Mom, Dad, I love you,” Sparks, at 17 the youngest winner to date, said
tearfully after getting a bear hug from Lewis, 25.

Full article here: Source

Winning American Idol could start Jordin Sparks on an impressive career.
America’s embrace of her recalls clinches with previous victors Kelly Clarkson
and Carrie Underwood, who have delivered best-selling CDs and collected
Grammys.

Sparks defeated runner-up Blake Lewis on Wednesday night, and host Ryan
Seacrest revealed that 74 million votes had been cast.

“Thank you so much for everything,” Sparks said. “Mom, Dad, I love you.”

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Associated Press Finalists Blake Lewis (right) and Jordin Sparks (left) react as Ryan Seacrest announces they will each get a new Ford Mustang. 'WELL, SHE was just 17," and last night she became the youngest winner ever of Fox's "American Idol."

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May 24 (Bloomberg) — Jordin Sparks became the youngest
“American Idol'' at 17 years old, defeating Blake Lewis to win
the sixth season of the nationwide singing contest. Sparks, a high school student from Glendale, Arizona, beat
Lewis after viewers cast 74 million votes by telephone and text
message. “American Idol'' enabled the Fox network to win this
year's prime-time television ratings race in the 18-to-49 age
group that sets national advertising rates. Among all viewers,
Fox, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., was second
behind CBS. Fox's decision to air the show once a year has
helped make it the most-watched show for four seasons.

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