Fantasia American Idol

Fantasia made an immediate impression on American Idol with her stylized gospel-influenced sound, and her explosive stage presence Her audition version of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" made her an early favorite in the competition. Her standout performance during the course of the show was a heartfelt staging of the Porgy and Bess standard "Summertime" that left her in tears from "feeling the song" and earned praise from the judges—Randy Jackson has called it the best performance in the show's history—and was named to the Emmy Awards's 2004 list of greatest television moments.

For the final performance of the season, Fantasia offered a second performance of "Summertime" that again drew enormous praise from the judges; Simon Cowell remarked that she was the best contestant to ever compete in any competition, including the more than seventy Idol champions crowned nationally and internationally since the show began its first global incarnations. On the finale, over sixty-five million votes were cast in order to determine the winner on May 26, 2004, up from twenty-four million in 2003. It was the highest finale vote in the show's history until the May 23, 2007 American Idol.
(season 6) finale. In the end Fantasia defeated runner-up Diana DeGarmo by 1.3 million votes. At age nineteen, Fantasia was the youngest American Idol winner until May 23, 2007, when the 17 year-old Jordin Sparks won the title.

Fantasia participated in the U.S. tour with the other American Idol finalists and appeared in the 2004 Christmas special, Kelly, Ruben and Fantasia: Home For the Holidays.Barrino's brother auditioned for the eighth season of American idol but failed to make it to Hollywood. Barrino is one of only three winners, the others being Ruben Studdard, and most recently, Kris Allen, to have landed in the bottom 3 or 2, which she did twice, making her the only winner of the series who landed in the bottom group on more than one occassion.


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