[StrictTime]

You are not alone : ) I like Castro, too. I like him because he doesn’t act like American Idol is the pinnacle of his life experience. Maybe he’ll turn out okay if he has a grasp on the ridiculousness of this show.

[DCPatriot]

I actually enjoyed Jason's 2nd [Bob Dylan] song very much.

IMO, Syesha has the best stage presence of the lot of them.

And she's GREAT! And HOT!

[big'ol_freeper]

"Dude, you can't be series."

[Miss Didi]

From that Billboard article I posted:

Is your family musical too? When did you realize you could sing?

My whole family is musical, starting with my grandfather on my dad's side. He was making his way to Mexico City to make an album when he met my grandma in Colombia and he ended up settling there and having eight kids. I have five uncles and they all play guitar and sing. Anytime the family is together, they pull out guitars and start singing, so I was always around it. But I never sang.

I grew up playing drums and I never would sing, just because singing is such a vulnerable thing. If you're playing an instrument, you can mess up and it's like, “Oops,” but if you're singing, it's like your voice, you know, and it's just intimidating to me, so I never [sang] until a few years ago.

How did you decide to audition for "American Idol"

Well, it took a while [for me to start singing]. Still to this day I'm not that confident. I had a little recording setup and I started recording myself. For a good year, I hated everything I recorded, vocally at least. And then I started showing some of my friends and once I started getting the [reaction] “Wow,” I was like, “Ooh, maybe I'm singing well.” Last summer, I thought “I'll show my parents, see what they think,” and that was scary. And they couldn't believe it. They said, “We always knew it,” because they always begged me to sing. That it was about the time the commercials were going on TV for the “American Idol” tryouts and they said, “Why don't you go do that?” My dad went with me and that first audition was the scariest because I [had] performed [only] about five times in public before the first audition.