Kris Allen

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    Kris Allen looks back on the 5th anniversary of the car accident that changed his life

    "It didn't feel like a setback, but it felt like, ‘Oh, this is getting tougher. … I'm going to have to go through this.’ But, yeah, I do feel like I have a different lease on life.”

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    First Person: My ‘American Idol’ Experience, Part 2, by Kris Allen

    The 15th and final bittersweet season of American Idol is almost over, and all season long, Yahoo Music’s Reality Rocks has been asking alumni to share their stories. Season 8’s Kris Allen first penned a memorable and hilarious essay a few weeks ago about how his unorthodox song choices helped him go from underdog to champion. Now, to celebrate this week’s release of his new album, Letting You In, he’s back with the sequel – about a night that didn’t go quite as well for him and almost cost him

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    Song Premiere: Kris Allen Lets You In With ‘I Remember You’

    Fresh off his charming appearance during the audition rounds of the final American Idol season, Season 8 winner Kris Allen is preparing to release his fifth album, Letting You In, on March 18. Kris worked on the album in his new home base of Nashville with producers Konrad Snyder (Mat Kearney, Owl City), Ian Fitchuk (James Bay), and Grammy-winner Brown Bannister (Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman), and he calls it his most personal album to date.

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    First Person: My ‘American Idol’ Experience, by Kris Allen

    The 15th and final bittersweet season of American Idol is underway, and all season long, Yahoo Music’s Reality Rocks is inviting alumni from the series to share their stories. Photo: ) I hear all the time how some people just KNEW I was going to win American Idol from the very beginning. How they could foresee me still standing on that stage in the Nokia Theatre the night of the finale?