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Entertainment Tonight wishes Clay a happy birthday in their daily birthdays segment. Clay is in Waukegan, IL tonight prepping for the debut of the 2006 Christmas Tour tomorrow. | Chicago Sun Times - birthday set for Nov. 30
The Bolingbrook Sun has a short mention of tomorrow's Waukegan, IL concert:
Pianist Jim Brickman, Johnny Mathis, the Vienna Choir Boys, Anne Murray, Clay Aiken, the Chicago Children's Choir and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra are among the artists scheduled to stage holiday concerts in the suburbs and Chicago.
The "American Idol" star, who celebrates his 28th birthday today, is also learning to pace himself through life on the road. Friday night's appearance at the Genesee Theatre will be the first of 18 shows in 22 days, culminating Dec. 23 in Greensboro, N.C.
How will he pull off singing at the top of his register that often over that period of time? "Don't ask me how, because I've never done it before," he said. "When I did the first 'Idol' tour, we did, I think, 50 shows in about 60 days, so typically you do about five shows a week. This is six shows a week or more."
Adding to the challenge, Aiken said, will be performing at each stop with a local symphony. At the Genesee, he will be working with the FullScore Chamber Orchestra.
"Oh, my gosh, I'm going to tell on myself here, but we won't be doing any rehearsing ahead of time," he said. "We do have the same conductor who travels with us, but we're going to fly by the seat of our pants. (We'll) cross our fingers and hope it goes well."
Aiken then joked that "people will hear that and be like, 'Oh, I can't wait to see that train wreck.'" But he added that he will have the advantage of working with familiar material, having spent the last three Christmas seasons conducting some type of holiday tour.
"The first year, December of '03, I spent quite a bit of time leading into Christmas doing 'jingle jams' and (promotions) for radio stations. That did not feel like Christmas at all," he said. "But the last two years (with the Joyful Noise tours) and with a tour like this, people are in the Christmas spirit and we're doing all Christmas music, so it's kind of exciting.
"What I'm really excited about is that usually you just tour with a band; this is a full orchestra, and we're really going to focus on just the music," he said, adding that he has a tough time nailing down a favorite holiday song. "It's tough because every year it becomes something different. This year, I like 'Merry Christmas With Love' and 'Don't Save It All for Christmas,' which I close the show with. And then 'Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel' is probably my favorite standard."
Alabama.com - Ruben article... the usual Clay mention.
U of California Guardian - "Why do [kids] vote for 'American Idol' more than they vote for the president? They call up and vote for Clay Aiken and see it go from 83 percent to 84 percent …"
American Idol's Clay Aiken co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly. Clay put his hands over Kelly Ripa's mouth to keep her from speaking. Getting Kelly to shut up wasn't such a bad idea, but Aiken could have done it with more grace. The moon says it's time to adopt a suave and sophisticated attitude. Hint: buying 50 rolls of toilet paper in bulk at the discount store isn't helping your image.
InTouch asks: "Was Clay Aiken rude to Kelly Ripa?" (currently 89% in support of Clay)
Zap2it- Chris Daughtry rocking the charts - '"Daughtry" moved nearly 100,000 more copies than the first week of Clay Aiken's "A Thousand Different Ways" earlier this fall.' ... the Winston Salem Journal also has a Daughtry/Clay mention (Chris is also from NC).
Thanks to CDD visitor Mary Anne who tells us Clay is in the new issue of ABC Soaps: "In the new Dec 19 issue of ABC Soaps, page 9 there is an article about Clay--Soap Is Achin For Aiken. It is two columns and talks about clay having a personal motive for agreeing to guest on DAYS. His best friend Kristy Tivos Days and watches it every night. A good article."
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