I AM NOT DIANA DEGARMO, I AM JUST A FAN!
Diana On Montel - Aired July 7th/Taped In March
Diana's Upcoming Appearances
12th & Porter - Nashville, Tennessee Diana DeGarmo & Friends November 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th 6:00 pm
November 16 at 4/3c pm in Florida - Idols in Concert - Rotating cast of performers include Diana DeGarmo, Kimberly Caldwell, Constantine Maroulis, Justin Guarini, Ace Young, Vonzell Solomon, Anthony Fedorov, Lisa Tucker and more. Amarnick Goldstein Concert Hall (PLEASE DO NOT BUY TICKETS FOR THIS SHOW, IT HAS NOT YET BEEN CONFIRMED SHE WILL BE DOING THIS SHOW!)
Dec. 3: Four "American Idol" finalists sing holiday numbers, including David Hernandez (12th this year), Kimberly Caldwell (Season 2), Diana DeGarmo (Season 3), Constantine Maroulis (Season 4). Musical direction by "Idol's" Michael Orland. ($40, $35) http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-state0702-cn,0,5833792.s tory
Idols In Concert With The Dallas Symphony Orchestra - March 2009
ABOUT DIANA
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer and Broadway actress. She finished as the runner-up on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol, narrowly missing the win by about 2% (approximately 1.3 million votes) out of over 65 million votes.[1] At 16, DeGarmo was the youngest contestant among the set of finalists in the third season; she was a junior at Shiloh High School in Snellville, Georgia.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, DeGarmo has been singing publicly from a young age, including at the 1997 Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards, and in stage productions of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Atlanta. As a third grade student, she was a Coca-Cola Kid during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The next year, she sang at Opryland USA during the Christmas holiday season. In 2002, she was named Miss Teen Georgia and was a finalist on the NBC talent search program America's Most Talented Kid. At ten years of age, DeGarmo was one of the "Cartoon Network Kids". She has also appeared in various telefilms during her childhood. DeGarmo is niece to Eddie DeGarmo of DeGarmo & Key.[2] DeGarmo is best known for being the runner-up in the third season of FOX's hit reality show American Idol. She performed on the "American Idols Live" tour with the other season three Idol finalists during the summer of 2004, which included a show in Singapore in October 2004. She toured independently in 2005, at a few venues in order to promote her debut album, Blue Skies. In December 2005, she entertained troops in Southwest Asia on a USO tour that was hosted by General Peter Pace.[3]
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Diana In Hairspray: Run And Tell That/Mama I'm A Big Girl Now/Without Love//You Can't Stop The Beat
Diana's Music
DeGarmo released a single, "Dreams," on June 29, 2004. The song was co-written by songwriter Chris Braide who also co-wrote "This Is the Night" for Clay Aiken. It includes two other songs: her version of "I Believe" co-written by former Idol contestant Tamyra Gray and a remake of Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud".
DeGarmo's debut album, titled Blue Skies, was released on December 7, 2004, to opening week sales of 47,000. The album came in at #52 in the Billboard chart. As of August 2007, sales are at 164,000 copies.[4] Her single "Emotional" again co-written by Chris Braide, Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson, peaked at #54 on the Mediabase Pop Chart.
DeGarmo appeared on the soundtrack for the 2005 Disney movie Ice Princess with the song "Reaching for Heaven", written by Desmond Child.
DeGarmo began recording a pop/R&B album in 2007,[5] however she backed out of the project after it took a detour she did not want to take.[6] After filming CMT's Gone Country in late 2007, DeGarmo decided to return to her country roots and relocated to Nashville. She is now signed to John Rich's production company and currently recording a country-pop album in Nashville.[7] The song "Right Back Where We Ended", written by DeGarmo with Keith Stegall and Shanna Crooks for Gone Country, will be included on the album.
At a CMT Festival, DeGarmo performed several songs that are expected to be included on her debut album: "Mr. Right" , "Thank You" and her Gone Country song "Right Back Where We Ended." DeGarmo also released a song called "Better With Time" on her official music MySpace page.
John Rich, Gretchen Wilson, and some of Diana's other friends/songwriters including Trevor Rosen and Shanna Crooks are helping her write new material for her upcoming record. Diana is NOT signed to a label and is planning on shopping her album around Nashville once it is complete!
Diana also hopes to enlist Dolly Parton's help on the CD.
Known for pushing the limits of mainstream country music with the genre-bending MuzikMafia, John Rich, of the hit country duo Big & Rich, takes on his biggest challenge yet. He takes seven established performers from every realm of the entertainment and music industries and immerses them in all things country for a chance to break out as the next big country superstar. The one who is most successful at crossing over by the end of the series will have a country single produced by Rich.
The series features an eclectic cast of performers including:
Bobby Brown -- R&B singer, former member of New Edition
Carnie Wilson -- singer-songwriter, former member of Wilson Phillips and author
Dee Snider -- radio personality, lead singer Twisted Sister
Diana DeGarmo -- recording artist, Broadway actor and 2004 American Idol finalist
Julio Iglesias Jr. -- pop singer
Maureen McCormick -- singer-actor, The Brady Bunch
Sisqó -- R&B singer, former member of the group Dru Hill
Gone Country uproots these seven musical celebrities and moves them into a Nashville mansion together to embark on a two-week adventure, hosted by singer-songwriter John Rich. Each celebrity will be paired up with some of Nashville's finest songwriters in an attempt to prepare them for a career in country music. In each episode, the cast competes against each other in challenges that will test them musically and physically to adapt to a country music lifestyle, both on and off the stage. At the end of the two weeks, the artist who is most prepared to impress a country audience, as determined by Rich, will record and release a song.
The Finale was shot on October 25, 2007 at The Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee.
The last show aired on March 7, 2008 at 8/7c on CMT!
Julio Iglesias Jr. was declared the winner.
Diana left her Management team Mauldinbrand Management sometime in October where she was recording a Pop/R&B album.
Other Diana Facts
Diana has two dogs, Dixie & Rosie.
At age 18, Diana is the youngest performer to go overseas on the USO Tour.
Diana shares the same birthday as Tupac Shakur.
She was in the bottom 3 for 3 times. Those performances were "A Broken Wing", "I'm Still Standing", and "My Heart Will Go On.
She is of Italian/French/Native American descent.
Diana was named after Princess Diana.
Diana has known songwriter Desmond Child since she was 12 through a friend.
According to Diana, Child had actually put a reference to her in his hit for Ricky Martin, "She Bangs," with the line "she switches sides like a Gemini").
Diana can whistle through her fingers.
Diana is friends with Casey Skinner who is on Make Me A Supermodel.
Diana is a huge Rodney Carrington fan!