So...it seems like a number of people were surprised when American Idol strutted out Andrew Lloyd Webber week, and David Cook knocked Music of the Night out of the ballpark. How the heck can this guy be this good???
It seems that a lot of people didn't realize that David actually has quite a background in doing musical theater. And we already knew that he had an amazing voice and tons of control over it. So, hitting those GORGEOUS glory notes shouldn't have really been a surprise. Especially after watching him perform Make 'Em Laugh from Singin' in the Rain in a high school theater production.
It can even be traced further back than high school. David credits his elementary school music teacher with encouraging him to sing. Here he is singing a solo in his 5th grade Christmas production. The video quality here is bad...but you can hear his sweet little voice in it really well.
Oh yeah, and if you haven't purchased the studio version of David's Music of the Night yet...DO IT NOW! Seriously. It is beyond perfection. He hits all the notes he hit in the live performance, only somehow even more clearly and perfectly. It is gorgeous. It will make you melt into a puddle of goo on the floor over and over and over again. So go and download it. You won't regret it.
So, next week they will be performing songs from the Neil Diamond songbook. Part of me hopes Cookie will perform Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon. Which likely means that he'll go with something completely different that has us all in a panic about how he'll manage to pull it off, which actually means that he'll hit another homerun with it, and we'll all be in awe of how he could manage to do that song and make it sound like himself, but WOW he did it! Stay tuned. I know I will be.
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