Phillip Phillips

Phillip Phillips ( born November 20, 1990 in Leesburg, Georgia) is an American rock singer. In 2012, he won the eleventh season of American Idol.

Life

Phillips was born in Leesburg, Georgia, the son of Sheryl and Phillip " Donnie " Phillips, Sr.. He grew up in Sasser and Leesburg and attended the Lee County High School. Phillips graduated at the Albany Technical College. Before mitmachte Phillips on American Idol, he worked in the family's mortgage lending.

At the age of 14 years, his brother Benjamin Neil brought him to the music, which he sees as his mentor. In 2009 he founded with Neil and his other brother Todd Urick the Phillip Phillips band with which he performed in local events and shops. A year later he won a singing contest. He describes his music as " jazz, rock and alternative sound." Before mitmachte Phillips on American Idol, he also spoke for America's Got Talent before. There he not made ​​it into the finals.

American Idol

Phillips took part in the casting in Savannah, Georgia, and sang in front of Superstition by Stevie Wonder. At the request of the jury, he was another song for the best, and indeed Michael Jackson's Thriller with his guitar. He made ​​the jump to the rounds of Hollywood and Las Vegas. On 23 February, he was given the first among the top 25 candidates known as a top 13 finalist. While the theme shows Phillips suffered from kidney stones and needed surgery eight times. Because of the pain he went often into consideration from the competition alight.

Phillips was the only candidate of the squadron, who had never as shaky in danger of having to leave the show. In the final he was finally elected with a record-breaking 132 million votes from voting as the winner and won against his rival Jessica Sanchez. His winning song Home came up to # 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is with nearly 4.5 million sold downloads not only the best selling American Idol winner song, but also the best-selling single that has ever released an American Idol contestant.

His debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon was released in November 2012, and rose with 169,000 copies sold at # 4 on the Billboard 200.

Discography

  • 2012: Phillip Phillips: Journey to the Final
  • 2012: The World from the Side of the Moon
  • 2012: American Idol Season 11 Highlights: Phillip Phillips
  • 2013: iTunes Session
  • 2013: Live EP
  • 2012: We've Got Tonight
  • 2012: Home
  • 2013: Gone, Gone, Gone
  • 2013: Where We Came From
  • 2014: Raging Fire

Swell

Kelly Clarkson (2002 ) | Ruben Studdard (2003 ) | Fantasia Barrino (2004 ) | Carrie Underwood (2005 ) | Taylor Hicks (2006 ) | Jordin Sparks (2007 ) | David Cook ( 2008) | Kris Allen ( 2009) | Lee DeWyze ( 2010) | Scotty McCreery ( 2011) | Phillip Phillips ( 2012) | Candice Glover (2013 )

  • Rock singer
  • Winner of a talent show
  • Participants in American Idol
  • Americans
  • Born in 1990
  • Man
Georgia (U.S. state) Rock music Thriller (song) David Cook (singer)
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