Lee DeWyze Fan's

Lee DeWyze, Headlining tour

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Lee DeWyze performed the second single, "Beautiful Like You", on the American Idol Season 10 Top 12 Results show on March 17, 2011.

Lee DeWyze's first headlining tour kicked off on June 19, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio, and continued through July 22. Singer-songwriter Corey Crowder opened for the first eleven shows.

June 19: The Basement, Columbus, Ohio
June 20: Old Rock House, St. Louis, Missouri
June 22: Varsity, Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 23: Union Terrace, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
June 24: Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
June 25: Davis Park, Rockford, Illinois
June 27: Musica, Akron, Ohio
June 28: Altar Bar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 29: Gramercy Theatre, New York, New York
June 30: Alive at Five, Stamford, Connecticut
July 1: Brighton Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
July 7: Six Flags Fiesta Texas, San Antonio, Texas
July 8: Brewster Street Ice House, Corpus Christi, Texas
July 9: Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas
July 10: Antone's, Austin, Texas
July 11: House of Blues – Bronze Peacock Room, Houston, Texas
July 20: Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois
July 21: Simons Estes Amphitheatre, Des Moines, Iowa
July 22: Campus Martius Park, Detroit, Michigan

Setlist (some variation between shows):

“Earth Stood Still”
“Dear Isabelle”
“Sweet Serendipity” (sometimes with “Fast Car”)
“Live It Up”
“Naked As We Came” (Iron and Wine cover)
“If You Want”/”Princess”
“Annabelle”
“Stay”
“Only Dreaming”
“Beautiful Like You”
“Hummingbird”
“Pretty Eyes”
“Brooklyn Bridge”
“Use Somebody”
“Hallelujah”

Lee DeWyze, Collaborations, Awards and nominations

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Collaborations, 2008: Square One Organic Baby Food Company promotional CD (6 of the songs are sung by Lee DeWyze).

Awards and nominations

Year	Presenter	Award	Result
2010	2010 Teen Choice Awards	Male Reality/Variety Star	Won

Lee DeWyze- Singles, Digital singles

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Singles

Year	Single	Peak			Album
Year	Single	US	US Adult Pop	CAN	Album
2010	"Beautiful Day"	24	—	13	non-album single
2010	"Sweet Serendipity"	110	23	96	Live It Up
2011	"Beautiful Like You"	—	—	—	Live It Up
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Digital singles

Year	Single	Peak		Album
Year	Single	US	CAN	Album
2010	"Hallelujah"	44	57	Season 9 Favorite Performances
	"Falling Slowly" (with Crystal Bowersox)	66	70	non-album single
	"The Boxer"	88	72	Season 9 Favorite Performances
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Albums, Digital Albums

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Lee DeWyze

His Albums, Digital albums

Albums

Year	Album details	Peak						Certifications (sales threshold)
Year	Album details	US	US Digital	US Heat	US Indie	CA	UK	Certifications (sales threshold)
2007	So I'm Told Released: July 7, 2007 Label: WuLi Format: CD	—	—	—	—	—	—
2010	Slumberland Released: January 7, 2010 (iTunes) January 20, 2010 (physical release) Label: WuLi Format: CD, digital download	—	—	7	39	—	—	US: 17,000
2010	Live It Up Released: November 16, 2010 Label: 19, RCA Format: CD, digital download	19	10	—	—	79	122	US: 116,000
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Digital albums

Year	Album	Peak		Sales
Year	Album	US Heat	US Indie	Sales
2010	Season 9 Favorite Performances	9	40	US: 5,000

Live It Up

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Lee DeWyze
His Live It Up (2010-present)

On October 7, 2010, Lee DeWyze announced that his debut album will be called Live It Up and the first single, also called "Live It Up," will debut October 13 on On Air with Ryan Seacrest.

October 12, 2010, Lee DeWyze announced that his single "Live It Up" will be held off for release. Instead a new single titled Sweet Serendipity aired in its place on October 13, 2010. DeWyze's album, Live It Up, was released on November 16, 2010.

On November 29, 2010 Lee DeWyze returned to his roots in the Chicagoland area and spoke in depth on his experience in music so far.

Post-Idol career

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Lee DeWyze - Post-Idol career

Lee DeWyze signed with Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment and RCA Records. His first post-Idol album will be on RCA Records, scheduled for a November 16, 2010 release.

When describing the upcoming album Lee DeWyze
He says:

"It’s gonna be like a whole rock/pop sort of deal. It’s gonna be very chill rock, a little harder stuff. It’s gonna be my vibe — stuff I would have done from day one and what I’ve always done."

Lee DeWyze's first single, a cover of U2's "Beautiful Day," was released as a digital single on May 27, 2010. DeWyze has said about the song: "I like that song a lot; it's a really good song (...) Is it something that is necessarily in my genre? No. There were songs on the table, and I went with the one I thought would represent the moment the best."

Lee DeWyze's old label, WuLi Records plans on remastering and remixing his pre-Idol music to re-release his first album, So I'm Told as well as a brand new album of previously unreleased songs.

Lee DeWyze performed the national anthem at the Staples Center for Game 2 of the 2010 NBA Finals on June 6, 2010.

As a result of winning American Idol Lee DeWyze became the headliner of the 2010 American Idols LIVE! tour. The songs he chose to perform for the tour include "Beautiful Day," "Rocket Man," "Treat Her Like a Lady," "Hallelujah," and "Use Somebody."

Lee DeWyze won "Choice TV: Male Reality/Variety Star" at the Teen Choice Awards on August 8, 2010.

Lee DeWyze returned to Arlington Park Race Track in Arlington Heights, Illinois, for a post-Idol homecoming concert on September 24, 2010, where he performed for more than 20,000 people. His 12-song set of cover songs and pre-Idol originals also included a new song, “Only Dreaming”.

American Idol

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Lee DeWyze - American Idol

Lee DeWyze
auditioned in Chicago at the United Center for the ninth season of American Idol on June 22, 2009, after encouragement from his friend Vincent Ferrara who was also trying out for the contest in Chicago. He auditioned with the song "Ain't No Sunshine". He was one of only 13 people from Chicago, the lowest number out of all 7 audition cities, to make it through to Hollywood week. During Hollywood week his group included Aaron Kelly and Crystal Bowersox, all of whom made the Top 24 and subsequently the Top 5. Crystal Bowersox and DeWyze made it to that top two, in which he won.

His closest friend among the competitors is Andrew Garcia. Garcia was his roommate throughout the season until he was eliminated in the Top 9. Lee DeWyze stated that he was generally close to all the Top 10 Idols, but he is also especially close to Siobhan Magnus, Katie Stevens, Michael Lynche, and Alex Lambert and Lacey Brown from Top 16. Before every performance, DeWyze would call his family.

Lee DeWyze was one of two contestants in Season 9 to never land in the bottom three, the other being Crystal Bowersox. The judges praised him for shedding his shy persona throughout the season and showing, with confidence, that he was "in it to win it."

On May 14, 2010, Lee DeWyze performed at the Arlington Park Race Track in Arlington Heights, Illinois, with more than 41,000 people attending as part of his American Idol Homecoming day. Along with performing at the race track he had a parade in Mount Prospect, performed at a local AT&T store, and threw out the opening pitch at a Chicago Cubs baseball game.

On May 26, Lee DeWyze was crowned the winner of American Idol Season 9. As a result of winning the season, DeWyze also won a recording contract.

Pre-Idol career

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Lee DeWyze - Pre-Idol career

After leaving school, Lee DeWyze
Lee DeWyze worked as a paint salesman. Before auditioning for American Idol and making it through the Hollywood rounds of the show, he had been selling paint for six years at the "Mount Prospect Paint" store. The store continued to support him during his American Idol run by selling tee shirts encouraging fans to vote for Lee.

Lee DeWyze started singing at an early age and was discovered by Louis Svitek, who saw DeWyze, then 17, playing guitar and singing at a house party in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Svitek signed DeWyze to WuLi Records, the independent record label he runs with Ryan McGuire in Chicago. Dewyze formed the "Lee DeWyze Band" with Svitek, McGuire and Jeff Henderson. DeWyze recorded two albums, So I'm Told (2007) and Slumberland (2010), both produced by Ryan McGuire.

In 2008, as a favor to band member Jeff Henderson, DeWyze and the band recorded a disc for Square One Organic Baby Food Company, a company owned by Henderson's wife. DeWyze recorded six songs on the "Square One Organic" promotional CD, also produced by Ryan McGuire.

As a result of touring in the area and performing at many venues, Lee DeWyze and his band's music were known locally, even getting radio play on WXRT long before he auditioned for American Idol. The Lee DeWyze Band was featured on a local television sports program, The Chicago Huddle, hosted by ABC 7's Ryan Chiaverini, during the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

Lee DeWyze also had an acting role in 2006 in a low-budget short horror film Deadscapes: Broken Road. He played one of a trio of survivors in a land overrun with the undead.

Biography

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Lee DeWyze's Biography
Lee DeWyze
's Early life

Lee DeWyze was born in Mount Prospect, Illinois, the eldest son of Kathleen (née Donahue) and Lee DeWyze, Sr., who worked as a postal carrier in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He has two older sisters, Sarah and Shannon, and a younger brother, Mike. His musical influences include Cat Stevens, Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, and Simon & Garfunkel.

Education
Lee DeWyze attended Saint James Catholic Elementary School in Arlington Heights, Illinois and Prospect High School up until his senior year. After leaving Prospect High, he attended Forest View Alternative School in Arlington Heights, having been inspired both by his teachers and his interest in music to return to his studies. While he never graduated from either high school, he eventually got his GED.

Personal life
Lee DeWyze has some of the lyrics to "Father and Son", a classic Cat Stevens song, tattooed on his arm. He has three other tattoos, including a silhouette of the Chicago flag and tree of life on his right arm and a Shel Silverstein illustration on his left arm.

Lee DeWyze stated on his blog that he owns an English bulldog named Capone, is afraid of heights, and loves playing Scrabble and Poker. He plays guitar, piano and the drums.

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Lee DeWyze - short bio - description info

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Lee DeWyze with full name Leon James "Lee" DeWyze, Jr.
was born on April 2, 1986, Mount Prospect, Illinois, U.S.. Lee DeWyze is an American singer-songwriter from Mount Prospect, Illinois, and the winner of the ninth season of American Idol. After his win, Lee DeWyze signed a record deal with 19 Entertainment and RCA Records. In addition to singing, DeWyze is a musician who plays the guitar, piano and drums. His Genres are Alternative rock, indie rock, pop rock. Occupations are Singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist. His Instruments are Vocals, guitar, piano, drums. His Labels WuLi Records, RCA. His Associated acts Louis Svitek, Lee DeWyze Band. His Website www.LeeDewyzeofficial.com

Prior to Idol, Lee DeWyze had a solo career and had formed the Lee DeWyze Band. He had released two independent albums called So I'm Told in 2007 and Slumberland in 2010, both on WuLi Records.

"American Idol" Champion Lee DeWyze: "I'm Going to Disney World!" Commercial

Lee DeWyse beat out Crystal Bowersox to be the 2010 American Idol, but this year's finale had another purpose which was to celebrate Simon Cowell's last season as judge.

Just minutes after being crowned the newest "American Idol" Lee DeWyze shouted those famous words "I'm Going to Disney World!" Wednesday night, May 26.