Diana DeGarmo was the second place finalist on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol, losing by a margin of less than 2% out of 65 million votes. Currently residing in Snellville, Georgia, at 16, DeGarmo was the youngest contestant among the third season's set of finalists; she was a junior at Snellville's Shiloh High School.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, DeGarmo has been singing publicly from a young age, including at the 1997 Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards, and in stage productions of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Atlanta. As a third grade student, she was a Coca-Cola Kid during the Atlanta Summer Olympics, performing 3 shows a day. The next year, she sang at Opryland USA during the Christmas holiday season. In 2002, she was named Miss Teen Georgia and was a finalist on the NBC talent search program America's Most Talented Kid.
She performed on the "American Idols Live" tour with the other season 3 Idol finalists during the summer of 2004. She toured independently in 2005 in support of Blue Skies.
In November of 2005, DeGarmo appeared as Maria in the American Musical Theatre of San Jose production of West Side Story. On February 7, 2006, she made her Broadway debut as Penny Pingleton in the musical Hairspray at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York City to rave reviews. She starred in the show until May 21, 2006, but will resume her role as Penny for a possible six month engagement in September 2006. DeGarmo, in the lead role of Brooklyn, alongside Melba Moore and Cleavant Derricks, will headline the 2006 national tour of Brooklyn, the Musical starting June 11 in St. Paul, Minnesota and ending August 13 in San Jose, California.
DeGarmo performed Cosmo's singing voice in The Fairly Oddparents TV movie, Fairy Idol, which premiered on 19 May 2006.
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