AP#9- Alicja Janosz

Poland. Awesome Country.

Idol. Awesome Show.

Polish Idol- Alicja Janosz

Wiki Bios ALicja Janosz

Alicja Janosz (born June 4, 1985 in Pszczyna, Poland) was the winner of Polish Idol in 2002. She also appeared in World Idol, where she sang “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar. In November 2002, her debut album, Ala Janosz, was released.

AWESOMENESS-

Coming in at 4′11 she has an awesome voice for an awesome little body. Which is actually quite awesome. Don’t belive me check it out 

AP#8- Guy Sebastian

G’day I got alot to do-

Wiki. Guy. Bio. Now.

Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian, singer-songwriter and winner of the first Australian Idol television talent competition quest in 2003. Since winning the competition, he has released four top four albums and seven top twenty singles and has sold over a million albums and singles in Australia alone. He has also had substantial success overseas with number one hits in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

THE BIGGEST AWESOMENESS IS

 First reason is his voice

Secound reason is the hair

3rd reason is that he is always happy which (Awesome=Happy)

AP#7- Ryan Malcolm

Oh Canada– Fire up the wiki it’s Canadian Idol’s Ryan Malcolm Bio.

Ryan Michael Malcolm (born October 13, 1979 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian singer best known as winner of the first Canadian Idol. Ryan grew up in a small town just west of Kingston called Amherstview. The son of John and Sharron, Ryan had two older siblings, Kim and Sean. At the age of 9, Ryan’s parents split and John re-married. Throughout the 90’s, Ryan’s father owned and operated many restaurants, which in turn is where Ryan started singing.

In 2006, after spending 2 years writing songs, Ryan formed a new rock band, Low Level Flight. Teamed up with friends Shaun Noronha, James Rooke, Dave Carter and Brandon Merenick the band recorded their debut album with acclaimed producer Mike Borkosky (illScarlett). LLF released their first single, Change For Me, in February, 2007, and their debut record, Urgency, was released March 27, 2007, on I Heart Records (Ryan’s own label) with distribution by Fontana North.

WHY IS THE AWESOME MAN AWESOME?

Good Question. Well many of the Idols after World Idol became a part of screen plays or continue to create solo albums- Ryan didn’t. He started up his own rock band, and we know anything people of rock are truly awesome. 

Tommorow we go down under.

AP#6- Will Young

WIKIS BIO

Young was born in Reading/Wokingham, Berkshire, with a non-identical twin, Rupert. He also has an older sister, Emma. He was educated at Horris Hill preparatory school and Wellington College.

Young read Politics at the University of Exeter. At university, some of his haunts included Timepiece, The Old Firehouse, and Harry’s, where he used to work. In September 2001, he became a student at The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, London, starting a three-year course in musical theatre with a scholarship.

AWESOMENESS

I haven’t done this before but for his awesomess look at the awards he won.

Young has won two BRIT Awards, the first in February 2003 as Best Breakthrough Act and the second in February 2006 for his single Your Game which he co-wrote with Blair MacKichan.

On 1 May 2006, Young was voted the UK’s favourite artist ever in a poll conducted by commercial radio, beating the likes of Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney and the Spice Girls. On 27 May 2007 he was voted UK Favourite Artist of all time for the second year running. Young has also won many other awards including the accolade of Rear of the Year in 2005

AP#5- Heinz Winckler

To continue with World Idol Week, heres Heinz performance.

 

WIKI”S BIO

Heinz Carl Heinrich Winckler (born 22 March 1978) was the winner of the first series of South African Idols. Born the eldest of three children in Stellenbosch, South Africa, he went on to study law at Stellenbosch University. After winning the Idols competition in June 2002, he discontinued his studies to devote time to a musical career.

Winckler’s debut single, Once in a lifetime, went double platinum in South Africa. His subsequent debut album, One step closer, included this song as well as Soledad, a cover of the Westlife song which he performed during Idols, and Next stop happiness, which became a single as well.

He was nominated for two South African Music Awards, including best single for Once In A Lifetime and best pop album for One Step Closer.

In 2003 with the inaugural World Idol competition, Winckler came fourth behind Belgium’s Peter Evrard (3rd), the U.S.’s Kelly Clarkson (2nd), and Norway’s Kurt Nilsen ALL PREVIOUS AWESOMENESS…

His second album, Come Alive, was released via BMG, and features more ballads and rhythmic songs. It includes the singles Can’t Lose With You and Thank You, as well as I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing. Also included are songs written by himself; Drowning Me is a track co-written by him.

He performed Chasing Shadows, the theme song for the South African release of the Disney movie Treasure Planet. Heinz and his wife,Alette, married on September 25th 2006 in South Africa.

AWESOMENESS

While just look he has the record for longest BIO ever, but he still is quite awesome. THats why he is a the best at awesome person #5

AP#4- Peter Evrard

BIO, WIKIPEDIA STYLE

Peter Evrard (born October 19, 1974) is the winner of the first season of Idool 2003, the Belgian version of Pop Idol.

Evrard defied the traditional rules of the Idols series by singing punk rock music instead of the expected pop. Regardless, he managed to win the series, and in 2003 he placed third overall in the World Idol contest. Evrard lives and works in Beerse, Belgium. He is married and has 2 sons. One of his aspirations in life is that his sons grow up to be openminded people. He is the only one of the original 11 World Idols to lose their mother early in life.

In 2005, Peter began recording music again with his band Toner on the CD Radio Honolulu.

In 2007, he recorded together with Sofie Van Moll, the new theme tune for the Belgian soap opera Thuis.

AWESOME BECAUSE

 He did his own thing, their called it Pop Idol for reason and went right down and song rock. ANd that is truly awesome..

AP#3- Kelly Clarkson

To continue with World Idol week, the person who came secound, Kelly.

WIKIPEDIA’s Bio                                                                           Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the highly publicized first season of the television series American Idol in 2002. She was originally marketed as a pop musician with her debut album Thankful(2003). With the release of her multi-platinum second album Breakaway(2004), Clarkson moved to a more pop rock-oriented style of music, and won two Grammy Awards. Clarkson’s third album, entitled My December, was released on June 26, 2007. Clarkson has sold over 16 million albums worldwide.

^{WHY AWESOME?}

^{Well, ahh lets see here– she was in World Idol. She was asked why she came secound. She said, “Secound the best, first the worst” And that’s an awesome use of an alleteration . If you can tell me another reason it will be greatly appreciated}

AP#2- Kurt Nilsen

This is the start of World Idol Week- because we are looking at all the idols that performed in the TV show.   

For the last Awesome Person of the year we look at the incredibly talented Kurt Nilsen.

Before his singing persona, he was working as plumber and part time in a band. He tried out for Norwegian Idol and barely scraped the audition round. His popularity grew and grew. Then the underdog became king. He won the first Norwegian Idol. In 2003 he was entered into the World Idol. His odds were 20/1 to winning the competition but he did and one the whole thing.

First you have to relize that if someone can sing, well, their automatically awesome. Kurt has proved that singing every thing from Grunge to Country, Rock to Pop and that makes him a true awesome person. Thats it’s for me have a happy 2008  

AP#1- Megan McCormick

BIOGRAPHY  

She was raised in Florida, and went to Tufts University where she received a degree in Political Science and Philosophy. After university,  she worked as an English Teacher in Japan, social worker and behinds the scenes of MSNBC’s The News with Brian Williams. Then she was told by her actress friend that there was a job at Pilot Guides/Globe Trekker. She applied and got the job.     

WHY AWESOME?

First, she was voted the most popular (most awesome) Pilot Guide presenter. She has the biggest fan base. She is inspiring, sweet and most importantly- awesome. Secoundly you’re awesome when you love what you are doing. Which is shown by all the presenters of Global Trekkers, but they don’t the title of most awesome presenter. 

-And the biggest reason why she’s so awesome-