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She also found time to give back and has been heavily involved in philanthropic work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation, which included a two week mission to the Philippines with Manny Pacquiao giving out over 10, free hearing aids to those in need. She also joined the cast of Glee as a guest star for the season finale. Sanchez, now 19, is ecstatic to share new music with the world and is currently finishing her sophomore album.

You can't do that in the music industry because you're Asian and you have to stick to this. Sanchez took a break from music during the pandemic, but writing "Us" has reignited her creativity and she's now working on a new album, which, she says, will better express who she is as a year-old woman -- a long road away from the year-old who first captured America's heart on American Idol nearly a decade ago. Sanchez was runner-up to winner Phillip Phillips. Her debut album was released the following year.

She hopes her fans will resonate with the album when it is released, too. But, for now, she's proud to be able to create something with a larger goal.

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But as years went on, tuning in felt more and more like an obligation. This year, I realized I resented having to keep up with the show. When it got up to the Top 6, I finally gave myself permission to stop watching. And you know what? I felt great! Three more hours of life were suddenly returned to me each week. She made it to the final two with Phillip Phillips. Despite clearly being the stronger singer, nobody really believed the year-old had a chance of winning the crown.

Because the majority of those who vote repeatedly as is allowed for their favorite contestants are screaming, hormonal teenagers who have more passion to devote to a guy than a girl. Last year, after the Top 13 were announced, the audience voted off women including vocal powerhouse Pia Toscano five weeks in a row, allowing many weaker-voiced men to continue. Another problem is the preponderance of singers from the South, where the show is watched more than any other region.

Over the years, the combination of teenage girls — and Southern ones at that — accounts for some truly bad decisions: Taylor Hicks over Katherine McPhee Season 5 , David Cook over David Archuleta Season 7 , Kris Allen over Adam Lambert Season 8 , and Lee DeWyze Season 9 — who always looked so disconnected with everything around him, I thought he was socially retarded — over Crystal Bowersox though she was just as boring — more on why she got that far later.

Not helping is that the producers have gone to Atlanta five times and to Hawaii only once, even though it gave the show two of its Top 10 contestants in Jasmine Trias and Nicole Velasco. Another annoying factor — beginning in Season 7 — was the effect of allowing singers to perform with instruments. And it led to the acronym WGWG — white guys with guitars — and them winning every single year since.

The fact that most of them are black has become predictable and depressing. How many times has Jackson critiqued a performance by saying it started off shaky in the beginning, but by the time the singer got to the end, it was OK? The judges encourage histrionic singing. I never liked Whitney Houston. Besides being one of the most insincere interview subjects I ever heard, her success with power ballads inspired millions of wanna-be stars to imitate her by overusing melisma.

She influenced Mariah Carey, who took it one step further by trying to hit high notes only dogs could hear. As if that was the only basis on which Aguilera could judge talent. Today, they overdo it.

Gladys Knight came out of the church. I love listening to Gladys Knight. Which leads to another issue:.