New pop sensation Leona Lewis has triumphantly appeared on American Idol April 24. Leona Lewis was discovered by American Idol judge Simon Cowell technically because Simon Cowell created X Factor where Leona Lewis won. X Factor is like the American Idol of the UK, or should i say the UK Idol..

Leona Lewis on American Idol will be on the heels of Mariah Carey mentoring the American Idol 7 contestants on April 16. And of course Leona Lewis singing style is being compared to Mariah Carey. Some say Leona Lewis at her best now is just a watered down Mariah Carey at her best in the 90’s.

Here’s Leona Lewis live on Good Morning America singing her no. 1 single, “Bleeding Love” from the no. 1 album Spirit.

and here’s Leona Lewis in American Idol:

A blog entry allegedly written by American Idol finalist Ramiele Malubay the day after Ramiele Malubay was eliminated from American Idol 7, was posted in Ramiele Malubay myspace blog, with accusations of vote-rigging and discrimination from American Idol staffers. Here’s what the alleged Ramiele Malubay had posted in myspace:

“I am so sad on what happened but not because of the people’s decision, but what the staff told us. Please do not send me messages until I finish my statement.

“I am still here in California, by the way please vote for David Cook to be the 7th American Idol, I know he will, let’s pray for him, inspirational songs for next week, and I chose heal our land but I can not sing that anymore.”

After that, the entry revealed that a technical glitch on the voting system of American Idol was found out. “There are news from people here in USA who were mad, cause they were dialing my number but instead of thank you for voting Ramiele, it was thank you for voting other’s name.

“Technical problem. This problem is the same as on the case of Chris Daughtry.”

Chris Daughtry was in the final four of the fifth season of American Idol. While Idol judge Simon Cowell said he thought Katherine McPhee would be eliminated, the turnout of votes revealed otherwise. When it was announced that Chris was eliminated, he was obviously surprised with the result.”

Aside from this technical concern, the Ramiele Malubay blog entry also talked about the way they choose the songs that they are going to perform and how it also affects the voters.

The entry read, “You know every week we have theme, and they told that few weeks before that week. They gave us list of songs and we choose our song, but sometimes you can hear from some staffs, `Oh it’s not for you try to sing fast songs’ and they called me “lullaby” instead of Malubay.

“The staff also arranged the songs and most of the times judges didn’t like it, and they told us about the blocking like when I performed “In My Life,” Simon didn’t like the stair drama.

“In the case of Brooke, they told Brooke not to use guitar but she insisted it and she had a wonderful job.”

The Ramiele Malubay blog entry also pointed out that American Idol hypes up some issues to get a good rating. One example was the case of David Hernandez, who turned out to be a former stripper.

“The pilot episode’s rating was lower than season 6, and they make some noise, and they won. What noise? The stripper issue, the racy photos which are not, the my space video, the album of Carly Smithson, etc.

“Josiah Lemming, one of the semi-finalists in American Idol Season 7 was mad  at American Idol because we know he deserves to be on top 6, cause they pick those who would make noise.”

“David Archuleta won Star Search, Alexandria Lushington and David Archuleta made a noise cause they were co-semi finalist in that said show, Syesha Mercado was the one in the US version of Star Academy.”

“Ramiele Malubay” explained that she was expecting that her blog could be suspended after she published all these information.

“Few hours after the result’s night I made a blog that tells everything I know what happened on my myspace where Mr. Damian Grass of Associated Press used my blog for those racy photos.

“If you can help me please put on your blog all the things that I said. Chris Daughtry of American Idol 5 was disappointed cause of the technical problem, and look what happened to Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry. That’s why AI showed some clips about post idol life.”

Ramiele Malubay then announced that she is set to come to the Philippines for Pinoy Idol. “Good thing is there are offers, I’ll be there in Philippines for Pinoy Idol, and hopefully in ABS-CBN with a pinoy who won sa isang reality show sa Europe, I think he will be in “Altagracia” with KC Concepcion and John Lloyd Cruz.”

 

In my earlier post about Pinoys in American Idol Season 7,

Danny Noriega or Daniel Noriega was not mentioned as the info are still slowly coming in about Filipinos who made it to American Idol Season 7 top 24. Apparently, Danny Noriega made it to Top 24. He auditioned in San Diego, California.

So that makes two Idol wannabes with Philippine roots. The other one is Ramiele Malubay, although sometimes spelled as Ramielle Malubay who auditioned in Miami, Florida. Danny Noriega’s Philippines connection though is still sketchy. He may have a Filipina mother.

But yeah, its been reported that Daniel Noriega a.k.a. Danny Noriega has roots from the Philippines. Danny Noriega is rumored to be the son of Panama’s former dictator Manuel Noriega. If you don’t know about Manuel Noriega, he has a biopic called whatelse but, “Noriega.”

Also, Danny Noriega is no t just any American Idol contestant of AI7. Danny Noriega not only has Philippines roots/folks but he is openly gay too, a first for American Idol. That is, if you can count out Sanjaya Malakar and the original queen! Clay Aiken out of the picture.

Danny Noriega’s myspace profile ( which btw, is always private, not good for someone starting out in showbiz! ) says:

Danny Noriega
Age: 18
Birthdate: September 29th, 1989
Hometown/Residency: Azusa / Los Angeles, California
Orientation: What do you think?

Since Danny Noriega would be controversial as it is,  and obviously cannon

fodder for attacks, American Idol didn’t show his audition . Only a snippet of who made it through at the end of an audition, as seen in a photo here.

In my earlier post,Filipinos in American Idol Season 7 , I mentioned Ramiele Malubay as a petite Filipina who made the Top 24 of the latest season of American Idol, which is American Idol 7, or AI7.

Ramiele Malubay audition for American Idol was shown today. She auditioned in Miami, Florida since Ramiele Malubay is a waitress from Florida.

Ramiele Malubay got the nod of Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul but not Simon Cowell. Randy Jackson even said that he was surprised since for someone like Ramiele Malubay who stands 4′ 11″, she has that big powerful voice. The audition started with a story about another Filipina who made it to third place in American Idol, Jasmine Trias. Ramiele wants to duplicate or even surpass Jasmine’s feat by declaring that she will be the first Asian-American, American Idol.

Well, Ramiele Malubay is on her way to that dream as it was confirmed by paparazzi photos taken, when the Idol contestants who made it to the Top 24, had a photoshoot in California that indeed Ramiele Malubay is one of the Top 24.

Although unfortunately, another Filipina Neyshia Go who passed the San Diego auditions, did not make it through the Top 24.

Judging from the American Idol Miami audition, Ramiele Malubay is really good. And she’s proud to be Filipino too. Her surname distinctively Filipino, when asked her name, she said Ray-miel Malu-Bai for Ramiele Malubay of course. And right after the audition, her father was also shown and also looking very Pinoy..whatever Pinoy look it is, don’t ask me…I just feel it, just like when Renaldo Lapuz appeared in AI7 too.

Here is Ramiele Malubay’s audition video for American idol season 7:
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American Idol judge Simon Cowell has Boobies, and what better proof than these photos. These Simon Cowell  photos are real, btw, eewww…the grossness…lol..Simon Cowell looks like dressed chicken! only, before the chicken is dressed. eww again.

But Simon Cowell is really good a judge, let’s admit to that, so i can’t wait for the next season of American Idol for some biatchiness again..