American Idol is not Missing Something

Calendar February 21, 2009 | Posted by dmihalia

Thanks to one of the readers of this site I am here to tell you that this years American Idol has one of the top 36 who is of Filipino descent. Her name is Arianna Afsar from San Diego, California. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about Arianna:

“Arianna Afsar (born October 22, 1991) is a 17 year old from San Diego, California. She auditioned in Phoenix, Arizona, singing “Put Your Records On“, by Corinne Bailey Rae. When she was 12 years old, she founded a program called “Adopt A Grand-Friend”, where teenagers go to a nursing home and spend time with the elderly and perform for them. Afsar is a former Miss California’s Outstanding Teen and placed first runner-up at the 2006 Miss America’s Outstanding Teen pageant. She is of Filipino and Arab American descent.”

Since I now have a homegirl to cheer on it will make watching Simon, Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and the new judge a little more enjoyable. My second choice would have to be Danny Gokey  a praise and worship music director from Milwaukee whose wife passed away four weeks before his audition. He is very talented and has a nice story.

Anyway check out Arianna’s Fan site and let’s cheer her on and see if she can go further than any other American Idol contestant of Filipino descent. I’ve added a video below of her singing.

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4 Comments

  1. alma says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    Oh, thank you for this. I also watch AI only because of Filipino contestants. I stopped watching it this year coz’ I thought the Pinoy community has no representative.

    Now that I know that there is at least one Pinay in AI, I’ll start watching it again.

    Cheers from the land down under…

    almas last blog post..A hot and deadly summer

  2. dmihalia says:
    February 23, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Hi Alma
    Glad that I could be of assistance to you. I don’t know if she is in Group 2 or 3. I guess we will just have to watch every show.

  3. Lost Expats says:
    August 14, 2009 at 4:34 am

    Simon Cowell is soooo bad, still funny to watch him take people down though

  4. dmihalia says:
    August 14, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Hi Lost Expats
    I used to like Simon but now seeing he is in charge of America’s Got Talent (But they like sob stories more) I have lost respect for him.

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