Angela “Angie” Miller is the highest-achieving Massachusetts “Idol” competitor to date. The Beverly singer auditioned with “Mamma Knows Best” by Jessie J, and advanced to the top 3, but was eliminated ...

Despite looking older than he is, 21-year-old Kam'Ron Smith is a sprinkler installer and farmer from Rocky Mount, Virginia.

From contestants who nearly botched their auditions, to folks who floored the judges, these tryouts from past "Idol" winners ...

Douglas Kiker, a contestant on “American Idol” Season 18 who memorably moved series judge Katy Perry to tears with his ...

The man who wowed judges on “American Idol” and nicknamed the singing garbage man has died. Doug Kiker was 32. Kiker’s former ...

Doug Kiker, a former American Idol contestant deemed the “Singing Garbage Man, ” died on Monday (March 10), TMZ reports. He was 32. Valerie Cook, Kiker’s ex-fiancée with whom he shares two children, ...

Post-American Idol, Kiker teased a potential movie project about his life and performed at local venues in Mobile, Alabama ...

Although Kiker was eliminated shortly after, he made an appearance in the Season 18 finale with a virtual performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A year after his “American Idol” appearances ...

American Idol fans are mourning the loss of Douglas Kiker, the "Singing Garbage Man" spotlighted in Season 18 ... during "American Idol" XIV Grand Finale at Dolby Theatre on May 13, 2015 in ...

Carrie Underwood's debut as a judge on American Idol has drawn in more viewers than Katy Perry's final season premiere, by ...

AN AMERICAN Idol contestant who brought the judges to tears with his superstar voice and stories of being a garbage man has ...