Trivia

Has Puerto Rican ancestry via his father, who was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from an Irish-American father and Puerto Rican mother.

Impersonated Elvis Presley when he was younger, even in the back of the school bus.

Was crowned the American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (2002) Season 10 winner (May 2011).

Plays piano and guitar.

He is the pitcher on his high-school baseball team. His favorite pitch he throws he calls "the slurve"(a slider/curve ball).

First person of Hispanic descent to win American Idol.

Los Angeles, CA, Competing to be the next American Idol on the "American Idol" reality television show on Fox. (March 2011)

Has meet his wife at age five and has been friends with her ever since.