Kris Allen has signed his first record deal after winning American Idol.
Billboard reports that Kris has signed with 19 Recordings, a division of Jive Records, and his album will be released later this year.
Kris released a statement saying: “As exciting as the last few months have been, I’m really looking forward to what is next.”
He revealed that his album would contain tracks “definitely in the pop/rock genre”.
American Idolw inner Kris Allen has revealed that he and his wife are not ready to start a family.
The man who doesn’t even look old enough to be married, told People that “now would not be a good time” to have children.
“We do not have any plans to start a family,” he said. “Right now would not be a good time – I don’t think that I would ever be around, so we are definitely gonna hold off on that for a while.”
Kris Allen has admitted that he was shocked when he won American Idol on Wednesday night.
“I feel great but I’m just shocked,” he told People.com.
“Adam deserved this just as much as I do,” he said. “He’s an amazing performer, a gifted guy – an amazing guy.”
Adam took the news on the chin and congratulated Kris on his victory.
After 620 million votes, 100,000 auditions, a new judge and a bikini girl, Kris Allen has snatched this years American Idol title. This shock result occurred despite Simon Cowell predicting that Adam Lambert would steal the crown.
In the final showdown each contestant had to sing three songs, their own favourite, a choice from Simon Fuller, and the winner’s single ‘No Boundaries’. On the results show the pair took part in collaborations with Keith Urban and Kiss, I’m sure you can guess who sang with who and they ended with a duet of the Queen classic, ‘We Are The Champions’.
After Danny Gokey left the American Idol semi-final, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert flipped a coin to decide who would sing first in next weeks final show. Kris Allen won the toss and he wisely chose Adam Lambert to sing first.
Kris Allen and Adam Lambert have made it through to next week’s final of American Idol, Danny Gokey was eliminated last night.
Listening to the three semi-finalists performance on Youtube I am not at all surprised that Kris got through. He performed Heartless by Kanye West, but he wiped the floor with Kanye’s own performance on the show a few weeks ago. Adam did an amazing job with U2’s One but Danny Gokey definitely underwhelmed with his chosen track, ‘Dance Little Sister.’
Judge Simon Cowell told the contestants: “Look, none of us would have predicted this, guys.” I find that a strange statement given that Simon predicted that Adam would win just a few days ago.
So who are you backing to win next week? Have a listen to last night’s performances and leave your comments below.
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Kris Allen is a grower. For me he was a bit of a non runner during the early weeks of American Idol but since the halfway mark he has really stood out from the crowd and impressed me with his versatile performances.
Kris won some high praise from Jamie Fox during his American Idol mentoring session, so big things were expected from his performance this week.
I love ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ and can’t hear it without thinking of Julia Roberts lusting after her Best Friend, however I wasn’t digging Kris’s version at all. It was distinctly boring with a strange fast bit thrown into the middle.
The judges loved it but it was not my cup of tea at all.
American Idol eliminated another contestant last night – with the bottom three consisting of some surprising names.
The show began with the contestants having a cake fight in their shared house, leaving their kitchen completely destroyed. Host Ryan Seacrest asks the group who was responsible for starting the mess, with the blame left at Danny Gokey. Seacrest then hands him an envelope containing a bill for $6,000 for the maid service that had to clean up the mess, before Gokey replies, “You don’t think American Idol can pay for this, with all the money they make?”
The fun soon disappears when the results are announced. Seacrest asks Matt Giraud and Kris Allen to stand on one side of the stage, and Allison Iraheta and Danny Gokey to stand on the other, before asking hotly tipped series favourite Adam Lambert which side he thinks he should be on. As Adam decides that he should be with Allison and Danny, Seacrest pulls him back and tells him to stand with Matt and Kris, with the three of them receiving the fewest votes on the night.
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford were the names on the lips of American Idol’s final five contestants as they performed on this week’s Rat Pack-themed show – with actor and singer Jamie Foxx as this week’s celebrity mentor.
Kris Allen was first to perform, singing The Way You Look Tonight, impressing Randy Jackson, who called it his best performance to date whilst Kara DioGaurdi and Paula Abdul swooned, with Abdul telling him that he had turned from gone from the “adorable boy next door to the ever-so-handsome sophisticated gentleman.” Simon Cowell took a different view, however, calling his performance “a little bit wet” and “not that incredible”. Allen is now a top choice to reach the final, after it was revealed he was the surprise second most downloaded artist on iTunes, from this year’s line-up, behind Adam Lambert, with Danny Gokey widely thought to be Lambert’s nearest competitor.
I will admit that for the first few weeks of American Idol the name Kris Allen meant nothing to me. Kris didn’t really stand out as a contender for the winners title and in reality I couldn’t have picked him out of a lineup. However week on week Kris has been improving and last night’s performance of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ was probably his best yet.
Entertainment Weekly have announced that this weeks American Idol live show will run on a Michael Jackson theme.
Fox were forced to make an official announcement about the theme after finalist Kris Allen told journalists:
“Michael Jackson might be coming up, which would be kind of fun, but scary as well since I actually did a Michael Jackson song [in the semifinal round].”
Yes you read the title right! Last night the American Idol judges twisted proceedings a little and at the end of the wild card round announced that this year, they were actually going to allow thirteen contestants through to the live finals rather than the usual twelve.
Anoop Desai, Jasmine Murray, Megan Corkrey and Matt Giraud will now join Jorge Nunez, Scott MacIntyre, Lil Rounds, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey, Alexis Grace and Michael Sarver in next weeks first live show in the full size American Idol studio.
American Idol contestant Kris Allen has claimed that his lack of air time on the show hasn’t bothered him or hurt his progress at all.
The 23-year-old singer rarely appeared in any of the shows audition episodes but surprisingly secured a place in the final twelve on last weeks live show.
“I think [the lack of screen time] went through my head a little bit, but I was just trying to stay grounded and hopefully that doesn’t matter,” Allen told Zap2it. “I have to go out there and do my thing on live TV. I think that I showed myself this past week and I think people liked it.”
I think it would be fair to say that last night’s American Idol show was on of the most forgettable yet. Very few singers stood out and one who certainly didn’t was Kris Allen from Conway Arkansas.
Allen sang Michael Jackson’s ‘Man In The Mirror’ and I found his performance distinctly average. Have a watch of the video above and judge for yourself.
It was easy to predict that Adam Lambert and Allison Iraheta would make it to the final 12 contestants. Alison blew the judges away with her rendition of Hearts ‘Alone’, whilst Adam the Emo Elvis strutted his stuff during a fabulous version of the Rolling Stones ‘Satisfaction’. Megan Joy Corkery should have been the third contestant through. I loved her folk sound and would have thought the fact that she strongly resembles Jennifer Garner would have carried her for at least a few more rounds.
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