Review of Elliot Yamin

I am listening to a single by elliot yamin while I write this review. I have to say his music is pretty easy on the ears. This particular track hits a middle ground between the sweeping ballads of old school boy band stuff and the more syncopated R&B stylings of people like Nelly.

Here is the video for the song I was just describing:



Elliot work well with others. No less a star than Chris Daughtry was performing duets with Elliot during the tour that followed their appearances on American Idol. Elliot Yamin placed third on the 5th season of American Idol. That season was quite remarkable in that someone who was not very marketable won top honors and hasn't really done that much since. Chris Daughtry has actually had a more successful career than Taylor Hicks and Chris finished in fourth place that year.

Elliot Yamin's album has a glowing review on Amazon and the reviewer expects that his voice will win over the core R&B audience. The problem that many American Idol contestants have had in the past is that they make an album that plays to their strengths in a niche genre of music and the audience for that niche rejects them because they are from a television show. A man who actually won American Idol, Ruben Studdard, has never been as successful as the winners who pursued pop careers. I think the same will be true for the country flavored Carrie Underwood in the long term. And Taylor Hicks just isn't very good.

One of the highlights of Elliot's post Idol career was singing the American National anthem at the start of an NBA final game. Elliot Yamin is nearly deaf in one ear and he has diabetes.

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