So what happened to Mario Vasquez?
Contract conflicts I heard. He doesn't want to be locked into a repressive AI contract.
They'd be better off signing a 1960's Berry Gordy Motown contract.
He already had a CD/recording gig with another company. The terms of AI state that the contestants can't be signed with another music company or have a current record on the market. He must have lied to the AI people to get in and stay in the competition as far as he went. Once he got into the top 12 and had to sign contracts for the remainder of the season, be probably had to come clean.