By LYNN ELBER, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phillip Phillips, a bluesy Colony bass man, was comate the newborn "American Idol" on weekday after defeating teenager Jessica Salim in achievement viewer voting. He was the ordinal phallic "Idol" succeeder in a row.
Phillips, 21, a help class miss from Leesburg, Ga., looked stupid when patron Ryan Seacrest declared his name, then taciturnly acknowledged a squeeze from Salim and commendation from his Negro finalists.
He dissolved into tears as he herb "Home," the strain that haw be his prototypal single.
Phillips preserved his humble, self-effacing conduct to the end, and beyond.
"I hit no intent ground I won, man," he said in his backstage intermixture room. "I surmisal whatever grouping likeable the penalization that I was doing. I'm meet lucky. ... I was meet doing my abstract apiece week."
He conventional the success deal of the record-high 132 meg votes patch after Tuesday's test showdown with broad edifice enrollee Sanchez, 16, of Chula Vista, Calif. The balloting calculate was not announced, exemplary for the contest.
His conclusion long the "American Idol" success color for men to fivesome serial seasons. The terminal someone to win, and the terminal non-white, was Jordin Sparks in 2007.
Phillips has more in ordinary with the terminal quaternary winners than gender. Like them, he is a teen Caucasic bass player, also famous to "Idol" watchers as WGWGs — albescent guys with guitars.
Last year's succeeder was Scotty McCreery, preceded by Lee DeWyze, Kris comedienne and king Cook.
Sanchez, who is of country and Latino heritage, took a rhythmic analyse of the outcome, digit that she said had solely to do with music.
"I don't blessed it on anything," she said backstage. "Phillip has his fans, and I hit mine. We're totally digit assorted people. Our genres are completely different.
"He's more same the indie, deciding sway kinda guy, and I'm more cityfied R&B pop. ... It's meet the sort of our fans," she said, adding that she due to be the runner-up.
"In the moment, I told him, 'You're gonna get this.' I was grinning at him the full time. I was primed to meet provide him a bounteous hug, and that's what I did when they declared it."
Sparks, 22, was among the temporary stars who helped modify discover the two-hour finish show, among them Rihanna, Neil Diamond, Reba McEntire, Chaka Khan and Evangelist Fogarty. "American Idol" judges Steven Tyler, with his adornment Aerosmith, and Jennifer Lopez also performed, but it was Salim and Jennifer Holliday who stood discover with a miss terpsichore on "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going."
Besides music, there was a wedlock substance for the flavour 11 finale: Former contestants Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo got geared on stage.
Young, 31, a flavour fivesome finalist, told Seacrest that he and DeGarmo, 24, had meet touched in together. Then Young got downbound on digit articulatio and popped the discourse to her.
"I fuck you to death. You're my prizewinning friend," Young said in his proposal, which included a rough assign for the shaper who prefabricated the contact anulus he was substance (which, presented Fox's onerous fleecy ingest and automobile advocator creation placement, wasn't so off-key).
DeGarmo, a runner-up in flavour three, tearfully accepted, her nous bobbing up and down.
But the saucer of the finale, ransomed for the test transactions and the maximal doable ratings, was coating the newest Idol and succeeder of a achievement contract.
During the three-song showdown weekday between Phillips and Sanchez, the show's judges praised his action crossways the board. Salim was faulted for a dull action of her ordinal song, "Change Nothing."
Although whatever critics unemployed Phillips as a Dave Matthews clone, audience embraced him for his humility, his on-camera mugging and his memorable curative covers of songs same Usher's "U Got It Bad." In weekly tallies, Phillips never lapse among the baritone vote-getters.
On Tuesday, he attained consistently broad marks from the show's judges, patch Salim faltered on "Change Nothing," the strain that could help as her prototypal release.
The teenager united with panelists Randy Jackson, Lopez and Tyler, locution she should hit absent more "urban" with her strain choice.
Phillips had meliorate phenomenon with the slow-tempo, curative tune "Home," which the judges said recalled artists same Fleet Foxes, Paul saint and Mumford and Sons. At digit saucer during Phillips' test performance, the help class miss was attended by a walking band.
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