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Diana DeGarmo

Only 16 and a junior in high school in Snellville, Georgia, Diana Degarmo was the youngest finalist of American Idol 2004, but you wouldn't have guessed it from her powerful, confident voice.

Growing up a showbiz kid surely helped. Degarmo had been in Atlanta-based productions of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at a young age and performed at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of Coca Cola's "Olympic Kids". She later became a cast member of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Gang and got her first taste of televised talent shows when she became a finalist on NBC's America's Most Talented Kid.

Being too young to audition for the first season of American Idol frustrated Degarmo to the point of...
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