The winner of the seventh season of Fox's American Idol competition, David Cook is a rock-oriented vocalist with a bent toward a commercial post-grunge sound. Cook released an independently produced solo album, 2006's Analog Heart, before auditioning for the 2008 season of American Idol.David Cook, his self-titled full-length major-label debut, was released six months later. The album was certified platinum in early 2009. He has been essentially irrelevant since the Idol wave ended. He has also admitted to copying a Seattle-based band's cover of "Eleanor Rigby" on Idol, similar to how his cousin Dane Cook stole jokes from Louis C.K. His Idol finale track "The Time of My Life" is his most popular song.
The winner of the seventh season of Fox's American Idol competition, David Cook is a rock-oriented vocalist with a bent toward a commercial post-grunge sound. Cook released an independently produced solo album, 2006's Analog Heart, before auditioning for the 2008 season of American Idol.David Cook, his self-titled full-length major-label debut, was released six months later. The album was certified platinum in early 2009. He has been essentially irrelevant since the Idol wave ended. He has also admitted to copying a Seattle-based band's cover of "Eleanor Rigby" on Idol, similar to how his cousin Dane Cook stole jokes from Louis C.K. His Idol finale track "The Time of My Life" is his most popular song.
