American Idol Daily: Dawn of the David Archuleta

November 12, 2008 by Masterclass Lady 3 Comments


 I found this great article from the Los Angeles Times about David Archuleta. The journalist talks about David’s enormous talent and sincere persona and reaffirms the fact that David is on the road to superstardom.

For thousands of fans, however, he is already there. Yet, there are so many opportunities on the horizon that this CD, although extremely successful, is merely the beginning. It is a crystal ball, shall we say, foretelling David’s abundant future in the music industry.

My favorite quote from this article lies here:

But however things turn out for this album, as one who watched this young phenom burst upon the Idoldome, it has been incredible to to see his legend explode — from the “Idol” stage and on the national tour as tens of thousands made the rafters of stadiums quake with their their screams. And through it all, the boy from Murray amazingly remained seemingly untouched by the nuclear blasts of adoration. To all appearances, from the little I had the chance to interact with him, he stayed the same nervous, unfailingly polite, pathologically modest and humble lad he was when he first arrived at the Idoldome.

However, if you wish to read the whole article, click here and then click here to purchase the David’s CD.

American Idol Daily: Dawn of the David Archuleta | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times

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Rosanne (Giallonardo) Simunovic began her musical career in Timmins, Ontario. She studied piano with Anne Pizzale and later, at an advanced level, with Soeur Anita Vaugeois (Sister Cecile of Les Soeurs De L’Assomption in Timmins). Her vocal and accompaniment skills were nurtured by her aunt, the late Dorothea Mascioli. When Rosanne graduated from O’Gorman High School, she moved on to the University of Toronto where she continued her piano and vocal studies while attaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She was hired as a piano accompanist for several musical companies, most notably, the National Ballet Of Canada. She presently holds an A.R.C.T. Teacher’s Diploma in Voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Rosanne has studied choral conducting with numerous well known Canadian Conductors, including Wayne Riddell of Montreal, Quebec and the internationally renowned Dr. Elmer Iseler. She has been a founding member of numerous community-based arts organizations: the Timmins Arts Council, later known as Arts & Culture Timmins, the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, and, the Timmins Youth Singers…as well as the TYS Alumnus choir, the Timmins Concert Singers. In 1987, she was also selected to be the conductor of the Timmins Board Of Education Choir, comprised of talented students from Grades 5 to 8. In 1988, she was elected to the Board Of Directors of the Ontario Choral Federation (now known as Choirs Ontario), where she served as Chair of the Festivals Committee for six consecutive seasons. In 1996, in honour of the Ontario Choral Federation’s 25th Anniversary, Rosanne was selected as one of 25 recipients of the OCF’s Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the choral art. The ceremony was presided by Lieutenant Governor, Hal Jackman. In November 1997, Rosanne Simunovic was selected by the Rotary Club Of Timmins to receive the prestigious Paul Harris Award for her years of dedication to the artistic development of young musical talent in Timmins. In August of 2002, Rosanne Simunovic was selected by the Board Of Directors of Choirs Ontario to serve as Conductor of both the Provincial Junior and Teen Choir Camps, now renamed in honour of the Camp Benefactors, Don and Lillian Wright. In November 2002, Rosanne was the one of the recipients of the Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, honouring her work in the development of the arts in Timmins. Under Rosanne Simunovic’s direction, the Timmins Youth Singers and the Timmins Concert Singers have been featured in numerous choral festivals and performing opportunities outside of Timmins. In 1985, they were selected to partici
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3 Responses to “American Idol Daily: Dawn of the David Archuleta”

  1. archiefandoc November 13, 2008 at 3:33 am

    I posted this elsewhere a few weeks ago and I think appropriate to bring here for this post regarding the LA Times article (thanks to this reviewer – at least someone from the Times has the sense to “get” David)

    When I first found my self interested in finding out more about David after American Idol I “stumbled” across many things that startled me. I had not been into the Pop culture of today. I was shocked when tooling around iTunes searching for anything David I saw all of these songs with the words “explicit” next to them. I started to listen to the pop stations waiting to hear Crush (still waiting for local LA to play) and could not believe some of the lyrics I was hearing over the airwaves and the same goes for much of the comments from the DJ’s. When viewing websites I could not believe some of the inappropriate comments that were made – by all types of people young and old. Well I am not one to usually speak up about such things – most of us do not – we “silently” object “- while we passively watch society denigrate. Then comes along David Archuleta. He unexpectedly gave us a way out just by being simply who he is. We can help change society back to what it should be – not by complaining over the negative but by simply being champions of David’s positive morals and character, by being champions of good music, by being champions of humility and respect.

    The music and entertainment industry please take note – David Archuleta is going to be a superstar and this will be superstardom “done right”!

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  2. janey79 November 14, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Doc…thank you for posting this here. I would have missed it otherwise.

    I agree with you completely. I believe it would mean enough to David to promote his music and champion his artistry but I feel honored to promote this young man as you so eloquently said …

    not by complaining over the negative but by simply being champions of David’s positive morals and character…by being champions of humility and respect.

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  3. virginia banker November 20, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    I love all of david’s songs but this one words OMG what could you even say. He wrote this at the age of 14. His voice and the words are WOW. It just moves you so much. Some one made a video with this song that just moves me to tears. Because we see the things that are going on with our children, he could be singing this about any one of our children. It is a song that is so ture for many people out there the way the world is going. This song for me I think is the best of the best.

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