The 25-year-old has made it to the live audition round for the television show, where he'll sing in front of judges Carrie Underwood (an American Idol winner herself), Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie.

Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan and Carrie Underwood are taking in some American Idol nostalgia. In a clip premiering exclusively with PEOPLE on Wednesday, Dec. 31, the singing competition show judges are ...

Last May, confetti rained down on Jamal Roberts as American Idol viewers crowned him the winner over John Foster and Breanna Nix. The Mississippi native joined an elite pantheon of champions that ...

Last spring, a month and a half into American Idol’s 23rd season, the reality singing competition did something it had never done before. It aired a three-hour special on Easter Sunday, themed around ...

The man accused of fatally shooting Robin Kaye, a longtime American Idol music supervisor, and her husband, the musician Thomas Deluca, inside their Los Angeles home last July, was declared ...

Pensacola gospel singer Keyla Richardson has auditioned for Season 24 of "American Idol." Richardson previously reached the final four on BET's gospel competition show "Sunday Best." She has also ...

Simon Cowell has a few regrets. During an appearance on The New York Times' "The Interview" podcast, Cowell apologized for his famously harsh comments toward contestants when he was a judge on ...

Indeed, the former American Idol judge apologized for how he treated contestants in the early years of the competition series. “I wasn’t trying to be a d--k on purpose,” Simon told The New York Times ...

A former “American Idol” contestant charged with raping a minor creepily fronted a band called Sexual Harassment after he was booted from the reality show — twice. Randy Madden, 45, started the ...

Former "American Idol" contestant Randy Madden has been arrested on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor. Madden, 45, was arrested in Ventura County, California, and charged with six felonies, ...

Randy Madden, a contestant on “American Idol” Season 8, has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor. On Monday, Madden, 45, was charged with six felony counts including unlawful sexual ...