Clay Aiken Tickets - Not Just an American Idol Runner-Up

No one expected that this little boy from next door with the glasses and the glamorous voice could turn into the glitzy star that is Clay Aiken. Obviously, the judges of 'American Idol' saw something, and so did the viewers of the show -- but only as a runner-up to Ruben Studdard. That didn't matter as this young hopeful born on November 30, 1978, wowed music moguls still with his talent as a permanent music fixture in the industry, signing a deal with Simon Fuller's 19 Recordings Limited imprint through RCA Records.

Clay Aiken Tickets - The Measure of Clay Aiken

His tenor voice showed to be a success even without a success on American Idol when he released his first album Measure of a Man featuring the hit single 'This Is the Night' and made history with it, breaking Elton John's record of single copies sold in one week with 'Candle in the Wind 1997'. The album itself actually sold 613,000 alone without even adding on the prestige of a remarkable 392,000 copies of his hit single sold in one week.

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You could compare the man to a young Frank Sinatra. Not only can he sing he note that can be heard clear across the world, but he can also act -- as featured on the Broadway hit 'Monty Python's Spamalot'. A true entertainer.