David Archuleta
David Archuleta
David James Archuletais an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. At ten years old, he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old, Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2. In 2007, at sixteen years old, he became one of the youngest contestants on the seventh season of American Idol. In May 2008 he finished as the runner-up, receiving 44 percent of over 97 million...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth28 December 1990
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
My mom is just someone who's easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it's always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we're just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who's helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.
What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.
Especially now, with 'Glee,' it's allowed a lot of kids to love music and performing at a young age. All ages watched 'American Idol,' but I think it was nice to be able to show kids, 'Hey, you can be here, too.'
If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.
Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.
I definitely want to do music for the rest of my life. So I just want to make sure that I'm doing music in the way that I feel is the way I need to.
I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.
There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.
The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day
Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light
Sometimes we need to take back and take a look at ourselves, a look at where we are
No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.
Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what