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'American Idol': Can Andrew Garcia live up to the hype?
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This may be a first: An "American Idol" contestant pulling huge Internet traffic before he even appears on the show.Such is the case, though, with one Andrew Garcia. He did not appear on Wednesday's (Jan. 20) audition episode, unless you count the preview for next week. Yet he shot into the top 20 of Google's trend list Wednesday night.
Here's what we know: Garcia is a Southern California native. He's got a Facebook fan page and a Myspace page and 5,000-plus followers on Twitter. From the looks of things, he appears on the L.A. audition episode next week -- he's the guy in the preview with the hat and glasses, hitting what sounds like a very clean note. He's also on the various leaked top 24 lists for this season.
But that's not a lot to go on -- particularly since the guy wasn't even named in the episode. So what gives, Internet users of the world? Did a five-second preview coupled with his purported place in the top 24 make you curious? Can he live up to the hype next week and beyond?
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I really like him and i hope that he live up to the hype and give good performance.
he definitely can ;)
he truly is a good singer, and can live up to the hype with ease. ive listened to him months before this and im glad to know that he'll finally be discovered
He's really good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQdwL8Jq8M
The reason why he's famous is because he is a "Youtube star". He is in the ranks of Aj Rafael, Cathy Nguyen, Gabe Bondoc, Jesse Barrera, Mark Mejia and Albert Posis, just to name a few. For those of you who didn't know these are youtube musicians with bout 50,000+ views per video. If you haven't heard of them look em up on youtube cuz these guys deserve their popularity, and Andrew Garcia can make it all the way.
I'm sure Andrew will make it far
and i mean FAAAAR
since i heard his covers over a year ago he's been one of my heros in music. Even outside the enternetz he's a local celebrity down here in SoCal.
i'm happy to have been fortunate enough to meet him, hope everyone enjoys his talent as much as i do
(don't mean to sound like i'm on his nuts, but he's just that damn good)
Does he wear his pants on the ground?????
Andrew has the most unique, AMAZING voice ever and he truly deserves to make it big and have his voice heard. I hope America realizes this once they hear him and vote vote vote and make him the next American Idol!
He has an amazing voice and has his own youtube channel with LOTS of views per video. People already new about him before AI, now AI is going to make him even bigger! YAY!
He's one of the more well-known musicians on youtube. I've listened to most of his videos before he had to take them down for AI but he's pretty good.