`American Idol’ axes another contestant By ERIN CARLSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 16 minutes ago NEW YORK - Uneasy lies Chikezie, who won’t wear the crown. The one-name singer — who previously worked security at
Los Angeles International Airport
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‘American Idol’ cuts another contestant By ERIN CARLSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 17 minutes ago NEW YORK - Uneasy lies Chikezie, who won’t wear the crown. The one-name singer — who previously worked security at
Los Angeles International Airport
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Chikezie is American Idol's latest casualty By Chris Michaud 1 hour, 12 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) -
America voted, and sent the exuberant
Chikezie packing from the seventh season of the hit talent show
"
American Idol
" on Wednesday.
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There’s a wonderful time during a clear morning, right before the sun comes up, that the sky is a twisting, fading rainbow; all the shades of dawn cradling the treetops and weaving the stillness into soundwaves.
If you quiet your mind and close your eyes, it is possible to hear these little tapestries rolling over each other like whales in deep water. Frequencies are being lit up by the freedom and solitude. Modulating and turning, stopping; then beginning again with renewed fervor. There is as much happening in the air here as in the middle of any metropolitan area, it’s just happening on a different plane. That is how I began to process this wonderful thing called
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Over the last two weeks, we've seen glimpses of various ways to make it in the music business, how it used to be and how it can be done today.
The old-school ways were on display at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction last Monday night in New York. The evening's centerpiece inductee, Madonna, made her way to fame and fortune by, shall we say, networking through the Big Apple dance music scene of the early-'80s and, then, morphing into a master of self-promotion and reinvention.
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Clay Aiken heads "Here" on next album 1 hour, 35 minutes ago NEW YORK (Billboard) -
Just as his stint starring in the
Broadway hit "Spamalot" concludes, "
American Idol
" veteran Clay
Aiken will return with his first album of entirely new material
since 2003's "Measure of a Man."
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As the top 10 contestants take the stage Tuesday (7 p.m., WFLD-Ch. 32 ), there’s barely a ripple of controversy, compared with past seasons. Sure, there was the blip caused by the emergence of former contestant David Hernandez’s past as a stripper. And the talent contest endured a fair amount of criticism for showcasing
singers who’ve had record deals
in the past. But even those “controversies†didn’t have much staying power.
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Dean Will Succeed Sieber in Broadway's 'Spamalot' Andrew Gans
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2 hours, 1 minute ago Bradley Dean, who played the roles of Sir Dennis Galahad, The Black Knight and Prince Herbert's Father in the national tour of
Spamalot
, will assume those roles on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. Dean succeeds Christopher Sieber, who has been cast as Lord Farquaad in the Broadway-bound
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Our opening task is to try to choose the most likely male and female winners of Season 7, as well as the most likely to leave us first. Compared with my fellow judges, I may not be terribly well informed about music. But I think I know a little bit about how
American Idol
works–what fans respond to and how the different contenders play off of each other. My recent track record of predicting Chris Daughtry and Melinda Doolittle to be season winners proves that I know what I’m talki–er, what’s that? They didn’t? OK, well, if the show was all that predictable it wouldn’t be so popular.
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USA TODAY Publishes Special Edition All About Hit Show ‘American Idol’
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