Oct 7, 2011
Maybe selling paint worked out better for the Season 9 American Idol winner Lee DeWyze. While he can sing, he still has not been succeeding in the music business. For instance his debut album was the lowest selling of any past Idol winner with only 168,000 copies selling. After the release of the album Live It Up DeWyze was pretty hard to find. He only toured here and there and there were no singles to really make it big on the charts. So his record label, RCA decided to drop him.
Now Lee DeWyze is not the first American Idol winner to have ever been dropped. If you recall the season 5 winner, Taylor Hicks was also dropped after releasing just one album. While it’s pretty sad, it’s been said by a rep that he is in a good place and that he is planning his wedding to the model Joanna Walsh. Let’s just hope he can hold on to her.
In a tribute to Lee DeWyze, I bring you the video for “Sweet Serendipity.” Honestly if you watched that season of Idol you might notice that he sounds a little different in this single. I miss the raspy and raw sound to his voice from the show. Maybe that’s why he didn’t fare so well.
