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oh my god! thank you so much shc! damn i wish I had an mp3 of it.

well as a thanks for letting me know about Sophie's myspace page, let me do the update for Friday.

Friday's Idol of the day is the African continent's first ever idol, Heinz Winckler


He was SA's first ever Idol and he placed 3rd on World Idol just behind Kelly and Kurt. Being set in a country as culturally divided as South Africa, Heinz' road to victory was full of scandal, one of which was accusations of racism affecting the vote as many considered runner-up Brandon October to be superior to Heinz. In the end though, Heinz proved them all wrong to become a pretty successful recording artist scoring hit after hit along with a critically acclaimed second album, he was also picked to sing a song for the Disney movie "Treasure Planet".

I finally found where you can see him in his Idol days, in the upcoming link is him performing his Idol coronation song "Once In A Lifeteime" which is really upbeat and catchy, which for the days of "A Moment Like This" and "Evergreen" was a bit of a rarity in the Idol world. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=nl-nl&vid=1419a88b-0d43-4620-9f48-9a2a6a222d8a

also, he toured the US and the world last year as part of the travelling company for...wait for it..... RENT.

Here are a couple of his songs I found:

for Saturday's update, we're going to the UK, the birthplace of Idol with their most recent (X Factor) winner, Alexandra Burke.

What I love about the X Factor format is that it really focuses on each contestant, forming a nice narrative for them. In Alexandra's case, she was there to prove something. You see 3 years prior, Alexandra made it all the way to the semi finals but was cut by then mentor Louis Walsh for her age and inexperience. now she's back to prove that she deserves to win the competition. The thing is, all the other girls that season are kinda awesome too.

now I know most of you here are anti-divas, so you should know that Alexandra began her X Factor journey trying to be one. To which the judges started criticizing her for it. Simon Cowell pretty much said that she was getting predictable and was being overshadowed by the other females in the competition. She had the voice, but she was ultimately trying to be another Mariah/Whitney clone and it doesn't help that just earlier that year, former winner Leona Lewis broke records across the pond. Alexandra struggled trying to prove that she was a real artist. She and mentor Cheryl Cole decided to keep away from classic Whitney/Celine/Mariah ballads and started looking to modern pop for song choices. Her incredible voice combined with some epic dance choreography quickly made her stand out and by the middle of the competition she has surpassed Diana Vickers, her biggest rival, as the bookies' favorite to win. and win she did. I've already posted her breakout performance earlier which was Christina Aguilera's "Candyman" during Big Band week. Now here is her first audition as well as her winning moment with, wait for it.... "Hallelujah" as her single.

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Thanks for filling in sjc, I'll do a double update in a bit.

Do you have Heinz's CDs sjc? If you do I would love if you'd share. I only have one song by him, "Soledad."

oh you shoulda told me, I have all his albums. I'll send em to ya, pm me your email.

ETA: I'm uploading it to sendspace right now, I also included his "Treasure Planet" single. they're m4a's so they might only work on itunes or something, just tell me if there's something wrong with em.