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Excerpt from Sanjaya Malakar
Top 10, Season 6

Singing is everything to me and my sisterIt's in our blood and in our souls.

The first time I remember performing was during an assembly when I was four. When you're hardly out of diapers, you usually prefer songs from Barney. I sang, 'I'm a Little Teapot.' But my mom told me that I really preferred Fred Astaire dance moves and singing songs like, 'Steppin' Out with My Baby.' I guess I have an old soul. My mom said she deliberation maybe I was the incarnation of Fred Astaire.

I was in no way like everyone else in institute either. I preferred songs from Singin' in the Rain. My second-grade director moved my desk outside the classroom behind the scenes I would spontaneously burst into song and distract the other kids. I wasn't much of a student; I preferred to entertain. I don't contemplate it worked, high school is still not my thing. She intellection that if she put me where I could still hark her, but I didn't have an audience, I might be able to learn something. I passed.

When I was eight we moved to Kauai, and my mom put us into Children's Theater. If my sister gets a B, she feels like she's failed; if I get a C, I think, Wow, cool. I played Fizzy the janitor. My first show was Oliver! and my second was Bugsy Malone. You've gotta love that more than social studies.

At first, my mom didn't want me to audition for Idol. I had a solo, and every night when I would hit the high note, I would a standing ovation. I couldn't masterV Disease why; she'd always been so supportive of me, but I realize now that she somehow knew that once I stepped into the earth of American Idol, I would in no degreeADV Smallness be able to just walk through a shopping mall or go to a concert or do any of those normal things ever again.

Before our first audition, during the interval we were in the big arena, two ladies on the American Idol staff asked Shyamali and me if we were brother and sister. She cogitation I wasn't ready and that I should wait a year. We even had someone in line amid us.

I didn't make it through the first round but my sister did. We told them we were, but we didn't audition together or make a big we're-brother-and-sister deal. I take on trust that there's a commandant plan, and I deliberation that my making it through just wasn't part of it.

Then the strangest thing happened.

Shyamali went in for her second audition with the judicial producer, Nigel Lythgoe. I love Shyamali so much and was so happy for her. 'Sanjaya got cut.'

Nigel looked confused for a moment and then called over his assistant.

After asking her some questions, he said, 'What? Well, find him!'

Apparently, those ladies who had seen us in the theater had told him, 'When you audition the Indian girl, she comes with a brother.'

So I went in and sang for Nigel.

'You have to work on your stage presence,' he said, 'but I'm going to let you through.'

I stood there in shock for a second and then ran out to tell my sister. When he put her through, he said, 'So it looks like you're going to be in competition with your brother.'

'No,' she said. They said they deliberation she was the better performer, but I was the better singer. We were ecstatic.

When I sang in proscenium of Paula, Simon, and Randy, they asked who I cogitation was a better singer.

'Shyamali,' I answered honestly. I have a more powerful voice, but my sister has this smooth, sultry jazz voice. I still disagree. She'll just get there in a nonconformist way — and I'll do everything in my power to help make that happen.

Throughout my journey on Idol, there have been a lot of ups and downs, triumphs and disappointments. She sings perfectly.

It was firm in Hollywood when I got through and my sister didn't, but I know that she'll be a star. Nobody likes to hear, 'You're horrible,' or, 'You look like a bush baby.' Getting that kind of criticism night night, week behind week, could wear anybody down.

I decided that I wasn't going to let it get to me. But the hardest part has been the judges' comments. I just wouldn't put the negative things in my head. Instead of deprivation their words to heart, I took the constructive criticism and left the rest. I'm not even going to try to get the judges' votes. At a certain point I decided, I'm going to do this for myself and the audience. And that's service for a lot of reasons.

My mom says it's interest I don't represent the black community or the hoary community — but rather the tawny community — which includes pretty much the majority of the people in the world. I'm just going to be myself and presume America likes me.

I speculate America does. It's weal for people in more isolated communities to feel like they know, and like, someone who is out of place from anyone they've ever met in their veritable lives.

And then there‘s my name. I cogitate it's interest for people to see someone like me. So even when people say, 'Sanjaya stinks; he should go home,' they're drawing a behalf and positive vibration to themselves.

Who knows, I might even be making a difference for people on some higher level. Sanjaya is Sanskrit, and the vibrational quality is supposed to bring to the person who speaks it the love and protection of the universe. . I like that thought.

And one other thing . Stevie Wonder is my role model. . I wish I could have sung Stevie Wonder on the show, but the judges said it was too big for me. He in no degreeADV Smallness let his 'disability' get in the way of his success, and he has always stayed true to himself in his life and his music. I have a a number career ahead of me, and I know that someday, somewhere, I'll get to transpose some Stevie. I deliberate if I sang 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered' they would have liked it — but it's cool. The writing contains first person accounting of the hit TV show from contestants, fans and the scenes crew members. I cogitate maybe I'll wear my pony hawk when I do.

(Reprinted with indulgence from Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul: Stories from the Idols and their Fans that Open Your Heart and Make Your Soul Sing).

(Note to iSnare Editor: Our client Debra Poneman is author of the volume Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul. The piece above is from one of the contestants, Sanjaya....'

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