American Idol & Chris Sligh
April 19th, 2007Sligh auditioned in Birmingham, Alabama singing “Kiss from a Rose” by Seal, after which Paula Abdul gave him a standing ovation and said, “I like you very much.” Idol judges laughed at his ambition “to make David Hasselhoff cry,” a reference to Hasselhoff’s crying when Taylor Hicks won season 5.
“American Idol” contestants are prohibited from posting comments on the Internet during the competition. When a “Secret Blog of Chris Sligh” appeared, Sligh was accused of having violated the rules. Sligh disavowed affiliation with the blog and was allowed to continue in the competition.
Sligh was aware of the Vote for the Worst website and had tried to get the attention of the founder Dave Della Terza while on air by saying “Hi, Dave.”
Sligh was eliminated from American Idol on March 28, 2007 and is therefore the tenth-place singer in Season Six. While singing his last song, he told Phil Stacey “You owe me 50 bucks,” from a bet that he would be eliminated that show.
On the next day, Sligh said that he had not sought to win the competition and that he had considered quitting the show two weeks before, but stayed on the show in order to make it into the top ten so that he could go on tour with the other top ten finalists and receive the accompanying payout.
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Half Past Forever Band Involvement
April 19th, 2007Before auditioning for American Idol, Sligh was a member of the band Half Past Forever, which was very close to releasing its first album when he became a contestant on American Idol. Because of AI rules, Sligh was forced to leave the band, but on the album, “Take a Chance on Something Beautiful,” released on March 13, 2007, Sligh sings lead vocals and plays guitar, bass, and piano. He rejoined after being voted off American Idol and is trying to get a record deal for them.
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Early Years of Chris Sligh
April 19th, 2007Chris Sligh is the son of Charles (Chuck) and Susan Sligh, Baptist missionaries to American military servicemen in Europe. Chuck Sligh is an accomplished guitarist and passed his love of music to his three sons, of whom Chris is the eldest. Chris Sligh spent ten years with his family in Wiesbaden, Germany and speaks German as well as English. Although Sligh has been singing since high school, as Adam Fisher, the lead guitarist of Chris’s band noted, he “grew up listening only to classical music in a regimented upbringing.”
Sligh attended Bob Jones University for seven semesters but was expelled before graduation. He then attended North Greenville University. He frequently performed in plays, operas, and musicals while in college, and he now serves with a worship band at Seacoast Church in Greenville.
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