American Idol Season 10's sizzling-hot Karen Rodriguez performs "Love Will Lead You Back" on the Top 12 Show. This week's theme was 'songs from your birth year'. Karen was born March 22, 1989, "the year of big hair, preppy clothes and bright colors." Karen choose to sing "Love Will Lead You Back," a #1 hit by Taylor Dayne - a pop icon of the late 80's.
"Love Will Lead You Back" is a song performed by Taylor Dayne. Released as the second single from Dayne's second album Can't Fight Fate (following the more uptempo "With Every Beat of My Heart"), the ballad debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 27, 1990. It reached #1 that same year and spent 15 weeks in the Top 40. It also reached #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and was certified a Gold Record. Taylor Dayne has 17 individual Top Tens on Billboard Charts including, most recently, her 2008 Billboard #1 "Beautiful". <
The song, written by Diane Warren, is about a woman who is willing to set her lover free because she is confident that one day his love will lead him back to her: "Sometimes it takes some time out on your own now / to find your way back home". Warren has stated that she began writing the song while in a hotel in Russia, and that she had originally intended the song to be offered to R&B singer Whitney Houston, but Arista Records president Clive Davis wanted to let Dayne record the song
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Getting to Know American Idol's Pia Toscano
American Idol Season 10 Top 12 finalist Pia Toscano is 22 years old and comes from Howard Beach, New York. She auditioned at the New Jersey/New York auditions. This is Pia's second appearance on American Idol, having made it to the Top 40 in Season 6.
The audience and judges love Pia. Not only is she gorgeous and classy on stage, she can truly belt out a tune! Judge Randy Jackson told Pia, "Dude, I'm in awe. Very hot, dope, cool performance." And Steven Tyler said, "You polished that apple...You just slammed it." She impressed the judges with her rendition of "I'll Stand by You" by the Pretenders during the semi-finals, receiving the first standing ovation of the season and earning her a place in the Top 13. The judges said she had one of the best performances in Idol history!
Pia's favorite quote is, "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined and don't worry about the things that you don't have control over." Pia's musical influences include Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Etta James> and Luther Vandross.
BIOGRAPHY
Pia Toscano was born in 1988. She started singing when she was four and had performed the National Anthem at her junior high school by the time she was twelve. Prior to American Idol, Toscano worked as a make-up artist and as a wedding singer in a band called "Current Affair". In 2006, she graduated from LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts in New York City. Fellow Idol Top 12 contestant Karen Rodriguez also attended this school. Toscano won the New York Mets annual "Anthem Search" competition in 2008 and sang the national anthem at a July 2008 game. She has also opened for Barenaked Ladies.
The audience and judges love Pia. Not only is she gorgeous and classy on stage, she can truly belt out a tune! Judge Randy Jackson told Pia, "Dude, I'm in awe. Very hot, dope, cool performance." And Steven Tyler said, "You polished that apple...You just slammed it." She impressed the judges with her rendition of "I'll Stand by You" by the Pretenders during the semi-finals, receiving the first standing ovation of the season and earning her a place in the Top 13. The judges said she had one of the best performances in Idol history!
Pia's favorite quote is, "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined and don't worry about the things that you don't have control over." Pia's musical influences include Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Etta James> and Luther Vandross.
BIOGRAPHY
Pia Toscano was born in 1988. She started singing when she was four and had performed the National Anthem at her junior high school by the time she was twelve. Prior to American Idol, Toscano worked as a make-up artist and as a wedding singer in a band called "Current Affair". In 2006, she graduated from LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts in New York City. Fellow Idol Top 12 contestant Karen Rodriguez also attended this school. Toscano won the New York Mets annual "Anthem Search" competition in 2008 and sang the national anthem at a July 2008 game. She has also opened for Barenaked Ladies.
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