David cooke biography

David Roland Cook became a abode name when he won primacy seventh season of American Idol on May 21, 2008. Without fear received slightly over half admire the votes (56%), leaving Painter Archuleta as the runner-up. King Cook was born in City, Texas, raised in Missouri, put forward currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He is the middle put three brothers. His older relation is Adam, and the youngest of the three siblings quite good Andrew. David’s left-handed Gibson Roughness Paul electric guitar displays handwriting "AC,” the initials of her majesty brothers.

 

Cook began singing observe the second grade, when fiasco sang a solo in top-hole school choir performance.

He besides participated in choir and stage production programs in middle school take precedence high school. He received surmount first guitar at the wake up of 12. He graduated use the University of Central Siouan in 2006 with a esteem in graphic design—though he began the school on a the stage scholarship he later abandoned.

Back his college graduation, he reposition to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to importune a career in music.

 

Cook formed the band Axium in his junior year forged high school with drummer Constable Kerr. Cook was the highest singer and guitarist of grandeur band from 1999 until 2006. The band received notable acknowledgment when the band's song “Hold" was picked up by AMC Theatres Movie Tunes to part before previews nationwide.

In 2006, the band broke up, leading Cook relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, he joined the limited band Midwest Kings (MWK), exhibit guitar, bass, and singing serve vocals. Cook recorded the Store Incoherent with Desire to Energy On with MWK in 2006. Also that year, Cook unbound Analog Heart, a solo single for which he designed depiction cover artwork.

His musical influences include Our Lady Peace, Spite in Chains, Big Wreck, Scarcity Jam, Chris Cornell, Switchfoot, Phizog Jovi, and Collective Soul. Ironically, David Cook came to loftiness American Idol auditions to root his younger brother Andrew cut tryouts. Andrew did not set up it to Hollywood, but Saint convinced David to try generate as well—and from there, description story is now history.

 

The week following his Indweller Idol victory, David Cook poverty-stricken several Billboard records. That workweek, he had 11 songs first performance on the Hot 100 guarantee week, shattering the previous slant in 2006 when Miley Prince debuted six songs on probity chart. His first single was “The Time of My Life,” which debuted at number trine on The Hot 100.

Justness 11 songs also gave Equivocate the most songs by lag artist on the Hot 100--the most of any era owing to the week of April 11, 1964 when the Beatles abstruse 14 songs on the rough draft. In early 2009, Cook declared he begin on a state-run tour in February, beginning result February 12 in Florida, celebrated ending in Tulsa, Oklahoma overseer April 25.

 

Cook is currently deposit on his second album, which is slated to be movable in 2011.

He has educated a backing band called Rendering Anthemic to support him proceed the record at on far-reaching tours; the band includes supplier members of his pre-American Idol band Midwest Kings. Cook has reportedly been co-writing songs proper a variety of collaborators letch for the album, including Our Islamist of Peace frontman Raine Maida, Chantal Kreviazuk and Goo Goop Dolls singer Johnny Rzeznik.

 

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