And Your American Idol Is...David Cook!!!

By: Chyanne Gilliam 820

David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American rock singer and songwriter. On May 21, 2008, he was announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol. He was born in Houston, Texas, but he currently lives in Blue Springs, Missouri. He received 56% of the votes and beating runner-up David Archuleta by 12 million votes. Cook then sang the winning song of the 2008 American Idol Songwriter's Competition, "The Time of My Life", which will also be David’s first which is available right now on iTunes. He is the fifth winner to have never been named in the bottom 2 or 3 in votes during his run on the show. He is also the third male winner.
Cook was the lead singer and guitarist of the band Axium from 1999 until 2006. He formed Axium in his junior year of high school with drummer Bobby Kerr. One of the band's songs, "Hold," was picked up by AMC Theatres Movie Tunes and was played before previews on over 20,000 screens nationwide. Axium was also named one of the top 15 independent bands in the country in the "Got Milk?" independent band contest, and it was chosen as the best band in Kansas City in 2004.

Along with season 2 winner Ruben Studdard, Cook is the second winner to have won the title after performing first during the top two performances. During the finale of season 7 of American Idol, Cook appeared in a commercial for the game Guitar Hero, mimicking Tom Cruise in Risky Business. David Archuleta also appeared in a separate but similar commercial with the same scene.

David Cook will be going on tour with the rest of the top 10 contestants from this year’s season of American Idol, which is considered one of the best seasons yet. It was very unpredictable but I think the best contestant of the season won, David Cook!