American Idol has made singing dreams come true because it premiered in June 2002.
“After I was slightly girl … if you happen to had asked me what I desired to do once I grew up, I’d have told you I desired to be a famous country music singer,” season 4 winner Carrie Underwood told fans during her concert on the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville in September 2019. “As I got older, dreams tend to present strategy to practicalities, so I began going to highschool to get an actual job. Someday there was an open door, and I walked through it and my life was modified endlessly.”
Underwood will not be the one past winner whose life was modified after appearing on American Idol. For Jordin Sparks, the experience was much more unique because she was a fan of the hit competition show first.
“I used to be such an enormous fan of Idol that I used to be more excited to audition for that than to get my driver’s license,” Sparks told AZCentral in August 2017. “That’s how an enormous a fan I used to be.”
Keep scrolling to look back in any respect the American Idol winners through the years: