Canadian Idol Season 6 – Theo Tams (born 12 July 1985) is a Canadian singer and the winner of the sixth season of Canadian Idol. His debut album on the Sony BMG label will be released in early 2009.
Tams grew up in Coaldale, Alberta, and he attended Immanuel Christian High School in Lethbridge. Tams played trumpet in high school, and is self-taught on piano. Before Idol, he was a student at the University of Lethbridge, studying classical music and psychology. He is taking a leave from his studies to pursue a music career.
Tams released the EP Unexpected in 2005.
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At his audition for Canadian Idol in February 2008, Tams drew laughs from the judges as he demonstrated evidence of his anxiety-related perspiration, having soaked through his shirt.
Tams most often performed while playing piano. His performances included “Apologize” by OneRepublic, “Collide” by Howie Day, Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry”, and Jann Arden’s “Good Mother”. Idol judge Zack Werner described Tams’ performance of Bryan Adams’ “Heaven” as “one of the top two or three performances in the history of the show.”
He won the title after singing three songs on the final performance show that included “Sing” (released to radio and digital download on 11 September 2008), which was the winner’s single chosen for him. The runner-up, Nova Scotia carpenter Mitch MacDonald, performed a different song as his own potential winner’s single, the first time this has been done on Canadian Idol.
Although the Idol winner’s first album usually is released about two months after the show’s finale, Tams will have more time to prepare his—the plan is for a release in early 2009. Tams has said he appreciates the longer time, and hopes to have some songs he wrote himself included on the album
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