Otto Malone was not going to let the chance to audition for American Idol pass him by, earlier in the year he was wounded in the leg by enemy fire while piloting an Apache helicopter over Musa Qala in Afghanistan. Regardless Otto showed up to the audition with crutches no less.

Will be fun to see his audition, I am sure Idol will air it. Not many helicopter pilots try out for idol, and on crutches no less.

Their are several other stories about Otto online, I have included links to those stories below as well as his MySpace Page.

Otto’s Myspace Page

Idol H’wood Round-Up–Possible AI8 Spoilers

Otis Malone (Hollywood Gossip)
 

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Several video clips (thanks youtube.com from Nate Marshall and Kate. Since 2005 Nate has been in a band called Nate and Kate … FYI.

What do you think of Nate?

Love him or leave him? 

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Nate Marshall grew up in upstate New York and soon discovered he had a deep love of music. In his teen years Nate began playing the guitar, hung out with other wannabe musicians and started to make some music of his own.

By 18, Nate had released his first full length album which consisted of original material entitled "Generation Why?". Besides playing the guitar Nate also plays the piano, cello, harmonica, banjo, ukulele, tambourine and kazoo. Several years ago (2005) Nate joined forces with a "Kate" and they have been touring together and have recorded one album.

You can find the Nate & Kate MySpace page located here. 

On Nate’s (and Kates) MySpace page you can listen to their acoustic, hippie sounding tunes. They are fun, catchy and sound a bit 60′s like to me.

Many people are thinking Nate has what it takes to get past the Hollywood rounds of Idol. Time will tell. I have found several videos on youtube.com that I will post in to the site in a bit.

From The Web: 

More American Idol Hopefuls
Nate Marshall recorded his first CD at the age of 19 of “original material”. Says he got his first guitar at 15 and learned to play for his local church choir. He’s been compared to Bob Dylan. He has recorded another CD at 22.

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Good stuff … how far do you think Tasha goes this year?

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